Designing Women

Designing Women

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  • La Place sans Souci

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    Season 4, Episode 28 - Aired 05/21/1990

    At a plush spa, the sparse diet, vigorous exercise program and thermal mud baths bring out the worst in Suzanne -- especially when Julia and Mary Jo are encouraged to gain weight.

  • Anthony's Graduation

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    Season 4, Episode 27 - Aired 05/14/1990

    An extremely anxious Anthony makes it to his college graduation despite a series of mishaps and his nervousness about his grandmother's visit and his performance as commencement speaker.

  • Their Finest Hour

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    Season 4, Episode 26 - Aired 05/09/1990

    An hour-long clip show of highlights from the previous seasons, including: razor-tongued Julia standing up for Suzanne against an insolent beauty pageant contestant, Julia defending Bernice's eccentricities, Mary Jo commenting on men and bra sizes, Charlene wondering about everything from killer bees to the personal habits of other women, Suzanne displaying a series of wacky dresses, and Anthony being plagued by a variety of indignities.

  • Have Faith

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    Season 4, Episode 25 - Aired 05/07/1990

    When Mary Jo attends church with Julia and Suzanne, she ends up dating Gene Chapman, the minister, but feeling guilty about her sexual interest in him.

  • Suzanne Goes Looking For a Friend

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    Season 4, Episode 24 - Aired 04/09/1990

    A former beauty queen and current television weather forecaster announces her ""coming out,"" causing a confused Suzanne to think she means she's the world's oldest debutante -- and to accept Eugenia's invitation to join her at a television industry dinner.

  • Foreign Affairs

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    Season 4, Episode 23 - Aired 04/03/1990

    When her maid Consuela is threatened with deportation, Suzanne puts Anthony in a dress and pays him to impersonate the terrified woman. But he performs too well, awakening romantic interest in the Immigration and Naturalization Service examiner.

  • It's A Wonderful Life

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    Season 4, Episode 22 - Aired 03/19/1990

    Julia intervenes when Bill's grief over the loss of his first wife threatens his relationship with Charlene -- and she becomes convinced he is having an affair with his new cockpit partner, Gail.

  • Tough Enough

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    Season 4, Episode 21 - Aired 03/12/1990

    A redecorating job for a sports account is right down Sugarbakers' alley when it pits the women against a macho, over-confident designer from an all-male firm. They determine to steal one of his prized clients, Cherokee Lanes Bowling Alley, but discover they must pose as regular bowlers.

  • Tornado Watch

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    Season 4, Episode 20 - Aired 02/26/1990

    A bizarre collection of characters is trapped inside Sugarbakers by a tornado warning, including hillbilly Daddy Jones who takes a liking to Bernice.

  • Payne Grows Up

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    Season 4, Episode 19 - Aired 02/19/1990

    Julia is not pleased to learn that Payne is graduating early in order to marry his pregnant girlfriend. Upset at becoming a grandmother so soon, Julia gets tipsy at the wedding, then wakes up mortified -- and scantily clad -- the next day with Payne's frat house roommate (Young).

  • Anthony and Vanessa

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    Season 4, Episode 18 - Aired 02/05/1990

    Hired for a temporary job at Sugarbakers, Anthony's needy friend Vanessa learns the tricks of the trade from Suzanne, then goes to work reeling in Anthony.

  • Oh, What a Feeling

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    Season 4, Episode 17 - Aired 01/29/1990

    Julia and Suzanne negotiate for a new delivery van and drive a hard bargain with an overbearing salesman (Ross).

  • The Fur Flies

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    Season 4, Episode 16 - Aired 01/15/1990

    The fur flies at a fashion show, where Suzanne's after-dinner mink causes a riot among animal-rights activists. Meanwhile, Charlene is forced to bring Olivia to Sugarbakers while she looks for a nanny.

  • The Mistress

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    Season 4, Episode 15 - Aired 01/08/1990

    The ladies are hired by wealthy stockbroker Ancel Pollard to decorate a house for a client's wife -- and a condo for his mistress. Suzanne is sure that straight laced Julia and Mary Jo will never go through with the assignment.

  • The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century

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    Season 4, Episode 14 - Aired 01/01/1990

    Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to deliver the first New Year's baby. Dolly Parton plays Charlene's ""guardian movie star,"" who comes to her in a dream with news of her baby's birth, and Bernice goes for an unexpected ambulance ride.

  • The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century

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    Season 4, Episode 13 - Aired 01/01/1990

    Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to deliver the first New Year's baby. Dolly Parton plays Charlene's ""guardian movie star,"" who comes to her in a dream with news of her baby's birth, and Bernice goes for an unexpected ambulance ride.

  • You Got to Have Friends

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    Season 4, Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1989

    Mary Jo takes a second job at a fast food place when Ted's child support payment is late.

  • They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?

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    Season 4, Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1989

    Fat as a feminist issue surfaces when Suzanne endures cruel jokes about her weight at her high-school reunion; Anthony enlists Julia and Mary Jo to join him in a two-day fast to focus attention on world hunger.

  • Manhunt

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    Season 4, Episode 10 - Aired 12/04/1989

    Desperately single Mary Jo, worried that her busy schedule will condemn her to a life alone, accepts coaching from Suzanne as she plans a weekend manhunt.

  • Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure

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    Season 4, Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1989

    Julia and Suzanne's plans go awry when they travel to Japan to visit their mother: after discovering that she has gone to Paris to see a sick friend, they are robbed of their luggage and money. Meanwhile, Anthony and Mary Jo are stuck with an enormous telephone bill after calling in votes to a television poll.

  • Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence

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    Season 4, Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1989

    While posing for a gag photo at the governor's mansion, Julia gets her head stuck in the banister just before the annual ball.

  • Bernice's Sanity Hearing

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    Season 4, Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1989

    The Sugarbaker women testify for Bernice when her niece Phyllis attempts to have her declared legally incompetent because she sings Bobbie Gentry songs to strangers on the street and introduces Anthony as her illegitimate son.

  • The Rowdy Girls

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    Season 4, Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1989

    While she is helping the Sugarbakers women choreograph a Supremes lip-synch routine, Charlene's favorite cousin inadvertently reveals that she is a victim of domestic violence.

  • The Girlfriend

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    Season 4, Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1989

    Attempting to prove himself when Mary Jo hires him and some of his ex-convict friends to finish an incomplete remodeling job, Anthony gets a new girlfriend -- an ambitious young woman who sees him as an upwardly mobile vehicle.

  • Nightmare From Hee Haw

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    Season 4, Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1989

    The Sugerbaker women and their mates take a canoe trip in the Georgia backwoods -- which turns into a nightmare when them encounter some good ole boys.

  • There She Is

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    Season 4, Episode 3 - Aired 10/02/1989

    While preparing for Charlene's baby shower, the Sugarbakers women are surprised by a visit from the Director of Pageants for Miss Georgia. Due to a clerical error discovered in the 1975 balloting, Suzanne must relinquish the crown she won 15 years earlier.

  • One Night With You

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    Season 4, Episode 2 - Aired 09/25/1989

    A terminally-ill high school classmate's last wish is to spend one night with the girl of his dreams -- Julia. The catch is, she doesn't remember him at all.

  • The Proxy Pig and Great Pretenders

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    Season 4, Episode 1 - Aired 09/18/1989

    Mary Jo uses the mansion she's decorating to entertain, and Anthony suffers when his health insurance lapses and Suzanne must nurse his injured back.