Designing Women

Season 5 (24 Episodes)

7 Seasons 1990 TV-PG 30m 7.2

The misadventures of four women and their handyman running a design firm in Atlanta, Georgia.

Outspoken feminist Julia Sugarbaker runs a design firm out of her Atlanta home, along with her shallow ex-beauty queen sister, Suzanne, divorced mother Mary Jo, and, naive country girl Charlene. Black ex-con Anthony helps deliver furniture for the business and voices his unique opinion on whatever the women are discussing. Episodes typically revolved around the work, personal, and love lives of these four women.

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Season 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 A Blast from the Past

1. A Blast from the Past

Aired: Sep 17, 1990

Sugarbakers is put on a historical tour of homes, and Julia gets irate at the...

Episode 3 Working Mother

3. Working Mother

Aired: Oct 1, 1990

When Charlene gets upset about missing Olivia's first steps because she was a...

Episode 4 Miss Trial

4. Miss Trial

Aired: Oct 15, 1990

Julia plans to have dinner with Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, she is called to ju...

Episode 5 The Bachelor Auction

5. The Bachelor Auction

Aired: Oct 22, 1990

Thinking that it will get her the membership she has always wanted, Suzanne h...

Episode 6 Charlene Buys a House

6. Charlene Buys a House

Aired: Oct 28, 1990

When Charlene buys a haunted house, she hires Sugarbaker & Associates to deco...

Episode 8 Nowhere to Run To

8. Nowhere to Run To

Aired: Nov 11, 1990

When Julia and Mary Jo take up running, Julia becomes obsessed with the sport...

Episode 9 A Class Act

9. A Class Act

Aired: Nov 18, 1990

When Charlene goes back to college, she takes a psychology class with a socia...

Episode 11 My Daughter, Myself

11. My Daughter, Myself

Aired: Dec 9, 1990

Claudia brings home Jack, a 34-year-old man she met in a bar, who soon takes ...

Episode 13 Pearls of Wisdom

13. Pearls of Wisdom

Aired: Jan 6, 1991

While Suzanne tries out for the evening news, she shows the other ladies her ...

Episode 17 Maybe Baby

17. Maybe Baby

Aired: Feb 10, 1991

While Suzanne starts smoking to lose weight, Mary Jo wants to have another ba...

Episode 18 This Is Art?

18. This Is Art?

Aired: Feb 24, 1991

When Julia goes to an art show held by a curator friend of hers, she places h...

Episode 21 The Big Circle

21. The Big Circle

Aired: Apr 8, 1991

While coping with the sudden death of her boyfriend Reese, Julia takes care o...

Episode 22 Friends and Husbands

22. Friends and Husbands

Aired: Apr 29, 1991

Bill gets a week's leave while Charlene and Mary Jo are writing a children's ...

Episode 23 Fore!

23. Fore!

Aired: May 6, 1991

The Beaumont Driving Club has changed their admission policies after being di...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres: Comedy

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