Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Director
Designing Women (1986)
Season 2
Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
Released Sept. 29, 1986
Episode 30 min
13+
Genres: Comedy
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Watch Providers: Hulu
Production Companies: Columbia Pictures Television, Mozark Productions, Embassy Television
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
7.0
S2E1 - 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.
Sept. 14, 1987, midnight
S2E2 - Ted Remarries
Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.
Sept. 21, 1987, midnight
7.0
S2E3 - Anthony, Jr.
Anthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriends' wealthy parents, inventing a pedigreed family -- then an uninvited dinner guest informs him he is the father of her child.
Sept. 28, 1987, midnight
10.0
S2E4 - Killing All the Right People
"Killing All the Right People" is the 26th episode of the sitcom Designing Women. Originally airing on October 5, 1987, as the fourth episode of the second season, it features Tony Goldwyn as Kendall Dobbs, a young man dying of AIDS who asks the women to design his funeral. Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's mother died of AIDS and her experience with her mother's disease and the prejudice associated with it inspired the episode.
Oct. 5, 1987, midnight
S2E5 - Half an Air Bubble Off
When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.
Oct. 19, 1987, midnight
S2E6 - Dash Goff, the Writer
Suzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.
Oct. 26, 1987, midnight
8.0
S2E7 - Heart Attacks
Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.
Nov. 9, 1987, midnight
8.0
S2E8 - Cruising
Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.
Nov. 16, 1987, midnight
S2E9 - I'll Be Seeing You
Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.
Nov. 23, 1987, midnight
S2E10 - Stranded
While Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.
Dec. 7, 1987, midnight
8.0
S2E11 - Howard the Date
It's the mercy date from Hell when the female Sugarbakers staff accompany dateless Howard the nerd to his high-school reunion. Their sympathy quickly wears off when he begins to boast about handling his ""four women.""
Dec. 14, 1987, midnight
8.0
S2E12 - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Charlene and Anthony scheme to outsmart Mary Jo's disbelieving son on Christmas Eve -- until their hired Santa beats them to it, by swiping the Sugarbakers' Christmas gifts.
Dec. 21, 1987, midnight
7.0
S2E13 - Great Expectations
Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.
Jan. 4, 1988, midnight
S2E14 - Second Time Around
Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.
Jan. 11, 1988, midnight
S2E15 - Oh, Brother
Julia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with aspirations to stand-up comedy.
Jan. 18, 1988, midnight
S2E16 - There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
Mary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.
Jan. 25, 1988, midnight
S2E17 - The Return of Ray Don
A penniless Suzanne faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her possession and considers marriage to wealthy octogenarian Wilmont Oliver.
Feb. 1, 1988, midnight
8.0
S2E18 - High Rollers
After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise.
Feb. 8, 1988, midnight
S2E19 - The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club
Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by laws.
Feb. 15, 1988, midnight
S2E20 - How Great Thou Art
Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.
Feb. 22, 1988, midnight
S2E21 - Ted-Bare
On the brink of marrying a young woman, Ted begins to appreciate ex-wife Mary Jo's maturity, but his sudden attentiveness strikes everyone else as suspicious.
March 21, 1988, midnight
9.0
S2E22 - Reservations for Eight
A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.
March 28, 1988, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 4890 min.
Released: Sept. 29, 1986
Last Air Date: May 24, 1993, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG
Common sense age: 13+
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