All Episodes of Designing Women
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Season 1
7.7/10200 votesLoading...Designing Women
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1986
Suzanne visits a new gynecologist, Mary Jo's ex-husband Ted, and a maelstrom of emotions is unleashed when she announces she is dating him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
8.5/10196 votesLoading...The Beauty Contest
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1986
Charlene sponsors Mary Jo's daughter in the Miss Pre-Teen Atlanta contest, and despite her depression over her own upcoming 30th birthday, Suzanne coaches Claudia on how to walk and smile.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
6.8/10142 votesLoading...A Big Affair
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1986
Suzanne's intimate dinner party, planned to impress an important client, goes awry before it begins when she arranges a date between a more-than-hefty man and a reluctant Charlene.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
8.1/10146 votesLoading...Julia's Son
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1986
Julia's nineteen-year-old son, Payne, is bringing his girlfriend home from college for a visit, and Julia wants everything to be perfect for her ""baby."" Payne then presents his girl, Primmie, who is tall, attractive...and forty years old!
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.8/10123 votesLoading...Mary Jo's First Date
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1986
Concerned that Mary Jo hasn't dated since she and Ted broke up, Suzanne arranges a bind date for her with an old acquaintance, J.D. Shackelford, head scout for the Atlanta Braves baseball team, while Julia struggles through an I.R.S. audit conducted by the same Ray Don Simpson who tried to pick up the women at a restaurant and suffered a tonguelashing from Julia.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.9/10123 votesLoading...Design House
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/1986
Since Suzanne has money invested in Sugarbaker's and is tired of her image as a front bimbo for the firm, Julia assigns her to do the decorating of their next project. Unfortunately, the house burns to the ground while Suzanne is working on it.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
8.0/10136 votesLoading...Perky's Visit
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/1986
Perky Sugarbaker, Julia and Suzanne's mother, and her friend Bernice hope to escape the dull routine of their lives in the retirement home by joining the girls and their ex-con handyman Anthony for the festive occasion, considering it an exhilarating change.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.3/10115 votesLoading...I Do, I Don't
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/4/1986
The dinner is perfect, the champagne flows, Julia is presented with a single rose, and on a lark she and her current beau Reese get married. The next morning both parties regret their hastiness, and Reese appears with annulment papers. An argument ensues, and Julia finally agrees to sign the papers, thereby annuling their marriage and their entire relationship.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
8.0/10123 votesLoading...The Slumber Party
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/1986
Arriving at work one morning, Suzanne tells Julia, Mary Jo, and Charlene that when she tried to fire her maid, she put a voodoo death curse on her and proclaimed that Suzanne would be gone by midnight. Mary Jo invites Charlene, Julia and Suzanne to help her with Claudia's slumber party.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.5/10112 votesLoading...New Year's Daze
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/1/1987
It is New Year's Eve, and everyone is dressed in their finery, anticipating a fun-filled night on the town. The identity of Charlene's date is kept secret until a news flash reports that the infamous ""Shadow"" is the subject of a massive manhunt.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: N/A
7.4/10109 votesLoading...Old Spouses Never Die (1)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/1/1987
Mary Jo is brooding about her ex-husband's interference in her life, while Charlene distrusts her doctor's cavalier attitude toward the lump he found in her breast.
Director: Barnet Kellman
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
- 7.6/10105 votesLoading...
Old Spouses Never Die (2)
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/1987
Mary Jo is brooding about her ex-husband's interference in her life, while Charlene distrusts her doctor's cavalier attitude toward the lump he found in her breast.
Director: Barnet Kellman
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.8/10118 votesLoading...Monette
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/1987
When an old school chum of Charlene's, Monette, buys the old Chadwick mansion and asks Sugarbaker's to redecorate, the women are excited at the prospect of a most lucrative assignment--until they find out what the assignment REALLY is...
Director: Barnet Kellman
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.3/10112 votesLoading...Reese's Friend
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1987
A disagreement over the theme for the annual country club fund-raiser has Julia and Suzanne at odds, but the quibbling is forgotten when Reese appears with a gorgeous young women on his arm, explaining that she is a new attorney in his law firm.
Director: Arlene Sanford
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.1/10109 votesLoading...Nashville Bound
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/16/1987
The news that Charlene's family--all ten brothers and sisters--will be in town at the same time is overshadowed by the news that she is going to become a recording star!
Director: Harry Thomason
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
8.7/10140 votesLoading...Oh, Suzannah
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/23/1987
While in Reese's office to sign legal papers, Suzanne off-handedly volunteers to keep a Vietnamese boat child, Li Sing, who is being adopted but needs an interim home for the next four weeks while final papers are being completed. Suzanne becomes attached to Li Sing quickly and doesn't want to give her over to her new family.
Director: Matthew Diamond
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.1/10101 votesLoading...Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/6/1987
When Mary Jo's divorced father arrives in Atlanta for a four-day visit and dances cheek to cheek with Charlene, Mary Jo becomes very protective.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.5/1098 votesLoading...Seams From a Marriage
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/13/1987
When Anthony saunters into the shop wearing an enormous cowboy hat, followed by a breathless Mary Jo who has obviously been out all night as she is wearing the same clothes ahe had on when she left the day before, the others clamor for an explanation. It seems their appointment with Sugarbaker's newest client turned into an all-night bash, complete with Cajun buffet and country-western band.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.8/10748 votesLoading...Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/1987
Suzanne's baseball player ex-husband, Jack Dent, writes in his autobiography that he had more groupie action than all the rock ""n"" roll bands in North America, and Suzanne vows revenge.
Director: Barnet Kellman
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.6/10101 votesLoading...Bachelor Suite
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/1987
When Mary Jo undertakes the decoration of Hence Winchester's new home, she finds herself the object of sexual harassment by her wealthy client.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
