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The Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 2

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The Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 2

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...

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  1. 9.4/10(261 votes)

    #1 - Killing All the Right People

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    S2:E4

    "Killing All the Right People" is the 26th episode of the sitcom Designing Women. Originally airing on October 5, 1987, as the fourth episode of the second season, it features Tony Goldwyn as Kendall Dobbs, a young man dying of AIDS who asks the women to design his funeral. Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's mother died of AIDS and her experience with her mother's disease and the prejudice associated with it inspired the episode.

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  2. 8.7/10(130 votes)

    #2 - Stranded

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    S2:E10

    While Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.

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  3. 8.3/10(134 votes)

    #3 - Dash Goff, the Writer

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    S2:E6

    Suzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.

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  4. 8.2/10(136 votes)

    #4 - Reservations for Eight

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    S2:E22

    A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.

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  5. 7.9/10(96 votes)

    #5 - High Rollers

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    S2:E18

    After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise.

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  6. 7.9/10(133 votes)

    #6 - How Great Thou Art

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    S2:E20

    Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.

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  8. 7.8/10(111 votes)

    #7 - I'll Be Home For Christmas

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    S2:E12

    Charlene and Anthony scheme to outsmart Mary Jo's disbelieving son on Christmas Eve -- until their hired Santa beats them to it, by swiping the Sugarbakers' Christmas gifts.

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  9. 7.8/10(96 votes)

    #8 - Second Time Around

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    S2:E14

    Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.

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  10. 7.8/10(98 votes)

    #9 - The Return of Ray Don

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    S2:E17

    A penniless Suzanne faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her possession and considers marriage to wealthy octogenarian Wilmont Oliver.

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  11. 7.8/10(99 votes)

    #10 - The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club

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    S2:E19

    Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by laws.

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  12. 7.7/10(119 votes)

    #11 - Cruising

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    S2:E8

    Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.

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  13. 7.5/10(104 votes)

    #12 - Heart Attacks

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    S2:E7

    Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.

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  14. 7.4/10(110 votes)

    #13 - 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station

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    S2:E1

    A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.

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  15. 7.4/10(123 votes)

    #14 - I'll Be Seeing You

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    S2:E9

    Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.

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  16. 7.4/10(103 votes)

    #15 - Howard the Date

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    S2:E11

    It's the mercy date from Hell when the female Sugarbakers staff accompany dateless Howard the nerd to his high-school reunion. Their sympathy quickly wears off when he begins to boast about handling his ""four women.""

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  17. 7.4/10(113 votes)

    #16 - Oh, Brother

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    S2:E15

    Julia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with aspirations to stand-up comedy.

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  18. 7.3/10(98 votes)

    #17 - Half an Air Bubble Off

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    S2:E5

    When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.

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  19. 7.2/10(98 votes)

    #18 - Ted Remarries

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    S2:E2

    Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.

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  20. 6.8/10(88 votes)

    #19 - Ted-Bare

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    S2:E21

    On the brink of marrying a young woman, Ted begins to appreciate ex-wife Mary Jo's maturity, but his sudden attentiveness strikes everyone else as suspicious.

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  21. 6.7/10(99 votes)

    #20 - There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner

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    S2:E16

    Mary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.

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  22. 6.6/10(94 votes)

    #21 - Anthony, Jr.

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    S2:E3

    Anthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriends' wealthy parents, inventing a pedigreed family -- then an uninvited dinner guest informs him he is the father of her child.

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  23. 6.6/10(104 votes)

    #22 - Great Expectations

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    S2:E13

    Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Killing All the Right People" is the best rated episode of "Designing Women" season 2. It scored 9.4/10 based on 261 votes. Directed by Harry Thomason and written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, it aired on 10/5/1987. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Stranded".