Designing Women

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  • CBS
  • Comedy

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5x1
A Blast from the Past
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Sugarbaker's is beset by tourists when the building's Civil War foundation puts it on the Tour of Historical Homes, Mary Jo opens her heart to an old friend eager to make good on a marriage pact they once entered into.
5x2
Papa Was a Rolling Stone
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Charlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost father.
5x3
Working Mother
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Resentment builds between Charlene and Mary Jo when Charlene wants to take a year off to look after her baby. The decorators cater to the whims of a rich, insufferable 10-year-old client .. show full overview
5x4
Miss Trial
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Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.
5x5
The Bachelor Auction
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When organizational confusion leads to Suzanne winning a date with Anthony in a bachelor charity auction, the two reluctantly try to make the best of a very awkward situation.
5x6
Charlene Buys a House
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As the proud new owner of a grand but ghostly mansion, Charlene hires the decorators to give the place a facelift -- not mentioning that it's haunted.
5x7
Old Rebels and Young Models
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Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.
5x8
Nowhere to Run To
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Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
5x9
A Class Act
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Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.
5x10
Keep the Home Fires Burning
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With her husband away on a mission, Charlene guiltily draws close to a man in her support group for military spouses who wife is also away. Meanwhile, lottery fever sweeps Sugarbakers.
5x11
My Daughter, Myself
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Mary Jo forbids her nearly 18-year-old daughter to date a 34-year-old, then dates him herself, Julia is forced to crash the men's room at a football stadium.
5x12
And Now, Here's Bernice
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After Bernice gets a local public-access cable TV show, Mary Jo has her heart broken by a client and decides that Bernice's show is the ideal arena to air her views on men.
5x13
Pearls of Wisdom
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Mary Jo borrows and loses a string of pearls flaunted by Suzanne, subbing as a lifestyles reporter for local TV news. Meanwhile, a recurring dream about Julia upsets Anthony.
5x14
High Noon in a Laundry Room
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Anthony, concerned with his masculinity after working with the women so long, tries standing up to his bullying neighbor, and is further humiliated when the women come to his rescue.
5x15
How Long Has This Been Going On?
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Everyone at Sugarbakers is baffled to discover that sensible Julia has covertly been singing evenings at a nightclub, Anthony tries to muster the nerve to ask out a girl who works at the bookstore.
5x16
The Emperor's New Nose
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Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.
5x17
Maybe, Baby
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Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.
5x18
This is Art?
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Amateur painter Julia inadvertently becomes the darling of Atlanta's art scene when someone tries to buy her handbag while she's attending a gallery opening; Suzanne inadvertently glues her lips shut.
5x19
Blame it on New Orleans
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When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.
5x20
I'll See You in Court
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Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.
5x21
The Big Circle
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Julia tries coping with her boyfriend Reese's death by looking after Randa Oliver, the supremely spoiled child of a client couple on an extended vacation.
5x22
Friends and Husbands
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Charlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book project.
5x23
Fore!
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Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.
5x24
The Pride of Sugarbakers
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Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.

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