Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Director
Designing Women (1986)
Season 7
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
S7E1 - Of Human Bondage
After cousin Allison leaves Sugarbakers, Julia needs cash but is refused a bank loan. To cheer themselves up, the women play poker with a wealthy client -- who wins the business from them. Sugarbaker's could use an infusion of cash, and at a rowdy party given by potential new client B.J., the gals kick up their heels in wild abandon.
Sept. 25, 1992, midnight
S7E2 - Sex and the Single Woman
Carlene allows herself to be seduced by her ex-husband, then admits she was just using him for sex.
Oct. 2, 1992, midnight
S7E3 - Mary Jo vs. the Terminator
After Julia completely rewrites a letter Mary Jo asked her to proofread, Mary Jo comes unraveled on a fashion-show runway, where she just plain has her fill of know-it-all Julia. Meanwhile, back at the office, B.J. has her hands full with angry vegetarians.
Oct. 16, 1992, midnight
S7E4 - On the Road Again
In an attempt at spontaneity, a carefree Mary Jo takes off for Nashville on ""a hen party on wheels"" with Julia and Bernice, but become terrified when a trucker Bernice flirted with at a diner pursues them. Meanwhile, back at the office, Carlene and Anthony put their noses to the grindstone studying for midterms.
Oct. 23, 1992, midnight
S7E5 - Screaming Passages
Julia fears the emotional roller coaster of menopause -- just as her affair with Phillip heats up, and is upset when she discovers a Sugerbakers ""Change of Life"" surprise party.
Oct. 30, 1992, midnight
S7E6 - Viva Las Vegas (1)
After Vanessa calls off their wedding, Anthony joins the gang on a getaway to Las Vegas, where he nurses his broken heart -- in the company of a show stopping showgirl he impulsively weds.
Nov. 6, 1992, midnight
S7E7 - Fools Rush In (2)
BJ offers to help a desperate Anthony, who invents various schemes to extricate himself from his hasty marriage to a Las Vegas showgirl.
Nov. 13, 1992, midnight
S7E8 - Love Letters
A steamy love letter from another woman found in James' safe-deposit box shatters B.J.'s image of her late husband as a faithful companion worthy of her trust. Meanwhile, reveling in the destruction of her old car, a symbol of her days as a suburban housewife, Mary Jo goes wild in a new red convertible.
Nov. 20, 1992, midnight
S7E9 - The Vision Thing
Etienne drives Anthony crazy trying to be the perfect wife, and the Sugarbakers crew throw a Las Vegas style wedding shower for them.
Dec. 4, 1992, midnight
S7E10 - Trial and Error
B.J. goes overboard showering everyone with gifts, and law student Anthony gets carried away trying to help Mary Jo win a small-claims case involving her defective freezer.
Dec. 11, 1992, midnight
S7E11 - Too Dumb to Date
Mary Jo dates a handsome idiot, a to-die-for toyboy male model who seems to have few toys in the attic and little in common with her.
Jan. 8, 1993, midnight
S7E12 - The Odyssey
B.J.'s contribution to the Democratic Party gets the Sugarbaker crew invited to the Inaugural Ball, but the trip proves to be a party for no one, even Julia, who struggles to maintain a cheery disposition in the face of disaster as bad weather forces a change in plans.
Jan. 15, 1993, midnight
S7E13 - Oh Dog, Poor Dog
After eye surgery, Bernice overhears the gals talk of putting Mary Jo's dog out of its misery and figures they're planning her own mercy killing, so she barricades herself inside the storeroom. Meanwhile, Julia gets caught listing to a London phone line which plays tapes of Princess Diana's private conversations with her boyfriend.
Jan. 22, 1993, midnight
S7E14 - Wedding Redux
Anthony and Etienne renew their vows for Etienne's visiting parents and Anthony's grandmother at a ceremony at B.J.'s, where anything that could go wrong does.
Feb. 5, 1993, midnight
S7E15 - Nude Julia, New York Morning
Julia's old mentor for her bohemian art school days in New York unveils his nude portrait of Julia.
Feb. 12, 1993, midnight
S7E16 - Sex, Lies and Bad Hair Days
B.J.'s dating adventures take a turn for the worse on her birthday, when a bad-hair day and two miserable blind dates have her vowing to give up men, so Julia tries to cheer her up by getting her a date with a really nice fellow.
March 5, 1993, midnight
S7E17 - Shovel Off to Buffalo
Worshiping hordes gather outside Sugarbaker's after the face of Elvis mysteriously appears on a snow shovel belonging to Mary Jo, who attracts the attention of a ""paraspectacular"" expert (Gilpin) -- especially when she apparently restores her neighbor's damaged hearing.
March 12, 1993, midnight
S7E18 - It's Not So Easy Being Green
Anthony is jealous of Etienne's successful writer friend, who shares a vivid past with her, but tries to be gracious by throwing a signing party for him.
April 2, 1993, midnight
S7E19 - The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers
A visit from Julia's meddlesome former schoolmistress is extended -- on ghostly instructions from her deceased husband, it turns out -- until the desperate Sugarbakers women hold a seance to try to force her to leave.
April 30, 1993, midnight
S7E20 - The Lying Game
There's no skirting the fact that Carlene is confused by new beau Eric (Kean), whose unusual habit (cross-dressing) she begins to understand only by tapping into her own masculine side.
May 7, 1993, midnight
S7E21 - Gone With a Whim (1)
With Sugarbaker's in such bad financial shape, the ladies are grateful when B. J. gets them a job redecorating a house that resembles the great home from Gone With The Wind --- until they find out that the new lady of the house plans to rip out the grand staircase and replace it with an elevator. To make matters worse, B. J. finds out that their client is trying to take over Poteet Industries and plans to give Sugarbaker's to his young bride Kiki --- renaming it ""Kikibaker's"".
May 24, 1993, midnight
S7E22 - Gone With a Whim (2)
With Julia continuing to fight to save the antebellum Kearney mansion, B.J. struggles to save Sugarbaker's and Poteet Industries from a take over from the Kearneys. However, despite their efforts, Kiki Kearney announces her new plans for ""Kikibaker's,"" Lester Kearney announces that the purchase of Poteet Industries is complete, and the modernizing of the mansion gets under way. Though Anthony and the women are fired for insubordination, when Craig, a friend of Mary Jo's, stumbles on some embarrassing news about the Kearney's illegal financial activities, Poteet Industries and Sugarbaker's are saved from the take over.
May 24, 1993, 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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