Designing Women Season 5

(1990) September - May | # of Episodes : 24

Ratings

6.6

Series Details

Seasons: 7

Total Episodes: 163

Creators: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

Networks: CBS

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Sep 29, 1986

Recent Air Date: May 24, 1993

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: NR

Website: Link

Production Companies: Columbia Pictures Television , Mozark Productions , Embassy Television

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Main Cast

Delta Burke

Suzanne Sugarbaker

Age : 67 | Popularity : 3%

Dixie Carter

Julia Sugarbaker

Age : 70 | Popularity : 3%

Annie Potts

Mary Jo Shively

Age : 71 | Popularity : 19%

Jean Smart

Charlene Frazier Stillfield

Age : 72 | Popularity : 13%

Meshach Taylor

Anthony Bouvier

Age : 67 | Popularity : 3%

Episodes

Episode 1

17 September 1990 - 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.

Episode 2

24 September 1990 - 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.

Episode 3

01 October 1990 - 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.

Episode 4

15 October 1990 - 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.

Episode 5

22 October 1990 - 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.

Episode 6

29 October 1990 - 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.

Episode 7

05 November 1990 - 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.

Episode 8

12 November 1990 - Nowhere To Run To

Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.

Episode 9

19 November 1990 - A Class Act

Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.

Episode 10

26 November 1990 - 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.

Episode 11

10 December 1990 - 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.

Episode 12

17 December 1990 - 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.

Episode 13

07 January 1991 - 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.

Episode 14

14 January 1991 - 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.

Episode 15

28 January 1991 - 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.

Episode 16

04 February 1991 - 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.

Episode 17

11 February 1991 - Maybe, Baby

Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.

Episode 18

25 February 1991 - 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.

Episode 19

04 March 1991 - Blame it on New Orleans

When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.

Episode 20

18 March 1991 - 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.

Episode 21

08 April 1991 - 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.

Episode 22

29 April 1991 - 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.

Episode 23

06 May 1991 - Fore!

Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.

Episode 24

13 May 1991 - The Pride of Sugarbakers

Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Tommy Thompson Pamela Norris Douglas Jackson David Trainer
	Executive Producer	Linda Bloodworth-Thomason Harry Thomason
Department	Role	Name

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