Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Director
Designing Women (1986)
Season 5
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
S5E1 - A Blast From the Past
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.
Sept. 17, 1990, midnight
S5E2 - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Charlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost father.
Sept. 24, 1990, midnight
S5E3 - Working Mother
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 as Mary Jo and Charlene ponder the joys and pitfalls of working mothers.
Oct. 1, 1990, midnight
S5E4 - Miss Trial
Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.
Oct. 15, 1990, midnight
S5E5 - The Bachelor Auction
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.
Oct. 22, 1990, midnight
S5E6 - Charlene Buys a House
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.
Oct. 29, 1990, midnight
S5E7 - Old Rebels and Young Models
Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.
Nov. 5, 1990, midnight
S5E8 - Nowhere To Run To
Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
Nov. 12, 1990, midnight
S5E9 - A Class Act
Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.
Nov. 19, 1990, midnight
S5E10 - Keep the Home Fires Burning
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.
Nov. 26, 1990, midnight
S5E11 - My Daughter, Myself
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.
Dec. 10, 1990, midnight
S5E12 - And Now, Here's Bernice
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.
Dec. 17, 1990, midnight
S5E13 - Pearls of Wisdom
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.
Jan. 7, 1991, midnight
S5E14 - High Noon in a Laundry Room
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.
Jan. 14, 1991, midnight
S5E15 - How Long Has This Been Going On?
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.
Jan. 28, 1991, midnight
S5E16 - The Emperor's New Nose
Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.
Feb. 4, 1991, midnight
S5E17 - Maybe, Baby
Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.
Feb. 11, 1991, midnight
S5E18 - This is Art?
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.
Feb. 25, 1991, midnight
S5E19 - Blame it on New Orleans
When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.
March 4, 1991, midnight
S5E20 - I'll See You in Court
Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.
March 18, 1991, midnight
S5E21 - The Big Circle
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.
April 8, 1991, midnight
S5E22 - Friends and Husbands
Charlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book project.
April 29, 1991, midnight
S5E23 - Fore!
Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.
May 6, 1991, midnight
S5E24 - The Pride of Sugarbakers
Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.
May 13, 1991, 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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