Designing Women

Suzanne shocks her co-workers when she begins dating Mary Jo's ex-husband.

Suzanne's substantial beauty contest expertise rises to the fore with surprising results when Charlene sponsors Mary Jo's daughter in the Miss Pre-Teen Atlanta Contest.

Suzanne's intimate dinner party, planned to impress an important client, goes awry before it begins when she arranges a date between a more-than-hefty man and a reluc-tant Charlene.

When Julia's nineteen-year-old son brings his girlfriend home from college, diplomacy becomes impossible when Julia finds that the girl is a forty-year-old professor.

Concerned that Mary Jo is not having any fun since her divorce, Suzanne arranges a blind date for her with an old acquaintance, while Julia tries to get through an I. R. S. audit with a man she verbally abused when he tried to pick up the women.

Suzanne is tired of her image as front bimbo for Sugarbaker's and wants to be a dec-orator. But she gets discouraged when her first design project burns to the ground.

Julia and Suzanne's mother arrives with a friend hoping to escape the dull routine of their retirement home by visiting Sugarbakers for Thanksgiving and they find more excitement than they had ever hoped.

Julia and her current beau go out for a celebratory dinner and on a whim decide to get married. The next morning finds Julia wanting to get out of the marriage until Reese shows up with the annulment papers.

Although Charlene still has a relationship with Mason, she begins dating another man. Unfortunately, unknown to Charlene, her new boyfriend is married.

When Suzanne has a voodoo death curse placed on her by her maid, she convinces Julia, Charlene and Mary Jo to spend the night with her so she won't die alone.

Gala Plans for a New Year's Eve celebration bite the dust when it seems that Charlene's date is the "armed and dangerous" prison escapee Shadow.

Mary Jo finds the road to romance more than usually rocky and Charlene receives dis-turbing medical news.

Mary Jo finds the road to romance more than usually rocky and Charlene receives dis-turbing medical news.

A dilemma faces Sugarbaker's when they ponder the morality of their latest -- and most lucrative -- client.

The women of Sugarbaker's are delighted to pick up sane authentic antique furniture at bargain prices until they wind up in jail for buying stolen furniture.

Jealousy takes a giant step forward when Julia assumes her friend Reese is overly pre-occupied with the beautiful new attorney in his law office.

A chance meeting with a hot-shot promoter at a party convinces Charlene that she will be the next big Nashville music star.

Suzanne brings a new meaning to mother love when she agrees to become a temporary foster mother.

When Mary Jo's father arrives in Atlanta for a visit and takes a fancy to Charlene, Mary Jo's imagination goes wild.

Integrity and values are tested when Sugarbaker's acquires a flamboyant, spendthrift couple as their latest client.

When Suzannes ex-husband, pro baseball player Jack Dent, writes his autobiography detailing his off-the-field activities, she decides to get even and play hardball herself .

Sexual harassment becomes the order of the day when Mary Jo is subjected to special attention and pressure from a wealthy client.

Sugarbaker's faces a severe test of their creative ability when the winner of their contest demands that they refurbish his run-down dilapidated gas station.

Anthony's fabrication of a pedigree family to impress his girlfriend's parents is shattered when an uninvited dinner guest informs him that he is the father of her son.

A wonderful young friend enlists the Sugarbaker firm's services for an unusual project -- he is dying of AIDS and wants them to design his funeral, and Mary Jo becomes involved in a PTA debate over sexually active school students.

At the same time the women are being driven crazy by an eccentric client with bizarre decorating requests, feisty Bernice Clifton announces she is entering a beauty contest for senior citizens and needs their advice and sponsorship.

Suzanne's ex-husband, writer Dash Goff, turns up in her life just in time to announce that he is contemplating suicide.

Reese hopes to prove he's more fit than his visiting buddy and sometime rival and challenges him to an arm-wrestling contest. Over Julia's protests, Reese strains himself to the limit and suffers a heart attack.

When the ladies of Sugarbaker's combine business with pleasure on a cruise ship; Mary Jo and Suzanne discover just how close they really are to each other.

When a handsome Army colonel appears at the Sugarbaker's shop, Charlene is sure hex friends have arranged his appearance as a surprise answer to her birthday wish for a soldier.

Suzanne insists on accompanying Anthony to St. Louis in the van when her flight is cancelled because of a snowstorm and they wind up sharing the last motel room available for miles.

A hired Santa steals all the gifts under the tree at Sugarbakers.

Suzanne and Julia learn that their half-brother wants to be a stand-up comic.

The father of a black student refuses to let him date Claudia.

Suzanne gets into trouble with the IRS and resorts to desperate measures.

Prejudice rears its ugly head when Julia and Suzanne are accepted into a very exclusive club.

Julia's solo with the Atlanta Symphony gives Charlene courage to oppose her minister.

The women feel insecure when a Scandinavian beauty queen (Rika Hofmann) is hired to watch Mary Jo's kids.

Julia's on-camera lashing of a local leader (Jason Bernard) launches her political career.

Mary Jo inherits $3,000 that must be spent on something frivolous, so she considers getting breast implants.

Suzanne convinces Charlene that her boyfriend (Douglas Barr) should date others before making a commitment.

When their supplier is hit by a strike, the ladies sew their own drapes.

The Sugarbaker women experience a three-day survival course, compliments of Bernice.

Anthony becomes a surrogate brother to a teenage con artist (Shavar Ross), causing Anthony to reflect on his own childhood.

A decorating project is put on hold when the client passes away.

Charlene announces her engagement; Mary Jo and J.D. go their separate ways.

Charlene's wedding is in jeopardy when she finds Bill (Douglas Barr) handcuffed to a scantily clad dancer (Fabiana Udenio).

Reggie (Danny Thomason), the thieving accountant, cons Suzanne into investing in a circus.

Julia becomes incensed by a nearby newspaper stand selling pornography.

The Sugarbaker women testify for Bernice when her niece (Leslie Ackerman) attempts to have her declared incompetent.

Julia gets her head stuck in the banister at the governor's mansion just before the annual ball.

The ladies decorate a house for a client's wife and a condo for his mistress.

While modeling a fur coat at a fashion show, Suzanne is injured by animal-rights protesters; Olivia searches for a nanny.

The ladies are forced to negotiate with a crafty car dealer for a new delivery van when their old one breaks down in a driving rainstorm.

In an effort to win Anthony, Vanessa (Olivia Brown) asks Suzanne for a total make-over.

Suzanne is thrilled to rekindle an old friendship until she learns the woman (Karen Kopins) is a lesbian.

Anthony is persuaded to impersonate Suzanne's maid to keep her from being deported.

Memorable moments from the series are shown in flashback.

While Bill (Douglas Barr) is on a classified mission, Charlene befriends a man (Peter Crook) she meets at a support group.

Mary Jo forbids Claudia (Priscilla Weems) to date an older man (Tom Isbell), then decides to date him herself.