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Designing Women : Season 4
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Air date: 18 Sep '89 - 28 episodesDesigning Women is an American television sitcom that centered on the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. It aired on the CBS television network from September 29, 1986 until May 24, 1993. The show was created by head writer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who wrote many of the episodes in the show's initial seasons. As of 2011, the series currently airs in syndication on the Comedy Gold and TVGN channels.
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List of Episodes (28)
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Designing Women (1986)
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1. The Proxy Pig and Great Pretenders
18 Sep '89Mary Jo uses the mansion she's decorating to entertain, and Anthony suffers when his health insurance lapses and Suzanne must nurse his injured back.
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Designing Women (1986)
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2. One Night With You
25 Sep '89A 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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3. There She Is
02 Oct '89While 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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4. Nightmare From Hee Haw
16 Oct '89The 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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5. The Girlfriend
23 Oct '89Attempting 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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6. The Rowdy Girls
30 Oct '89While 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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7. Bernice's Sanity Hearing
13 Nov '89The 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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8. Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence
20 Nov '89While posing for a gag photo at the governor's mansion, Julia gets her head stuck in the banister just before the annual ball.
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Designing Women (1986)
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9. Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure
27 Nov '89Julia 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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10. Manhunt
04 Dec '89Desperately 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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11. They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?
11 Dec '89Fat 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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12. You Got to Have Friends
18 Dec '89Mary Jo takes a second job at a fast food place when Ted's child support payment is late.
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Designing Women (1986)
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13. The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (1)
01 Jan '90Suzanne 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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14. The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (2)
01 Jan '90Suzanne 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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15. The Mistress
08 Jan '90The 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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16. The Fur Flies
15 Jan '90The 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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17. Oh, What a Feeling
29 Jan '90Julia and Suzanne negotiate for a new delivery van and drive a hard bargain with an overbearing salesman (Ross).
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Designing Women (1986)
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18. Anthony and Vanessa
05 Feb '90Hired 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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19. Payne Grows Up
19 Feb '90Julia 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).
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Designing Women (1986)
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20. Tornado Watch
26 Feb '90A bizarre collection of characters is trapped inside Sugarbakers by a tornado warning, including hillbilly Daddy Jones who takes a liking to Bernice.
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Designing Women (1986)
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21. Tough Enough
12 Mar '90A 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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22. It's A Wonderful Life
19 Mar '90Julia 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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23. Foreign Affairs
03 Apr '90When 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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24. Suzanne Goes Looking For a Friend
09 Apr '90A 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.
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Designing Women (1986)
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25. Have Faith
07 May '90When 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.
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