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The Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 5

Every episode of Designing Women Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 5!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Designing Women Season 5 Episode 1 - A Blast From the Past
    8.6/10(103 votes)

    #1 - A Blast From the Past

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 2 - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
    7.6/10(88 votes)

    #2 - Papa Was a Rolling Stone

    S5:E2

    Charlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost father.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 3 - Working Mother
    7.6/10(92 votes)

    #3 - Working Mother

    S5:E3

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 4 - Miss Trial
    8.4/10(109 votes)

    #4 - Miss Trial

    S5:E4

    Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 5 - The Bachelor Auction
    8.3/10(98 votes)

    #5 - The Bachelor Auction

    S5:E5

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 6 - Charlene Buys a House
    7.9/10(99 votes)

    #6 - Charlene Buys a House

    S5:E6

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 7 - Old Rebels and Young Models
    8.3/10(94 votes)

    #7 - Old Rebels and Young Models

    S5:E7

    Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 8 - Nowhere To Run To
    7.6/10(89 votes)

    #8 - Nowhere To Run To

    S5:E8

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

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 9 - A Class Act
    7.0/10(86 votes)

    #9 - A Class Act

    S5:E9

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

    Director:Dwayne Hickman
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 10 - Keep the Home Fires Burning
    6.9/10(84 votes)

    #10 - Keep the Home Fires Burning

    S5:E10

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 11 - My Daughter, Myself
    7.5/10(89 votes)

    #11 - My Daughter, Myself

    S5:E11

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 12 - And Now, Here's Bernice
    8.2/10(97 votes)

    #12 - And Now, Here's Bernice

    S5:E12

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 13 - Pearls of Wisdom
    8.2/10(94 votes)

    #13 - Pearls of Wisdom

    S5:E13

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 14 - High Noon in a Laundry Room
    6.7/10(82 votes)

    #14 - High Noon in a Laundry Room

    S5:E14

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 15 - How Long Has This Been Going On?
    7.7/10(85 votes)

    #15 - How Long Has This Been Going On?

    S5:E15

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 16 - The Emperor's New Nose
    7.9/10(89 votes)

    #16 - The Emperor's New Nose

    S5:E16

    Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Michael Ross

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  17. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 17 - Maybe, Baby
    7.4/10(87 votes)

    #17 - Maybe, Baby

    S5:E17

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

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 18 - This is Art?
    8.2/10(89 votes)

    #18 - This is Art?

    S5:E18

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 19 - Blame it on New Orleans
    8.6/10(98 votes)

    #19 - Blame it on New Orleans

    S5:E19

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

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 20 - I'll See You in Court
    7.6/10(87 votes)

    #20 - I'll See You in Court

    S5:E20

    Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 21 - The Big Circle
    8.4/10(97 votes)

    #21 - The Big Circle

    S5:E21

    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.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 22 - Friends and Husbands
    7.1/10(86 votes)

    #22 - Friends and Husbands

    S5:E22

    Charlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book project.

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 23 - Fore!
    7.7/10(81 votes)

    #23 - Fore!

    S5:E23

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

    Director:David Trainer
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Designing Women Season 5 Episode 24 - The Pride of Sugarbakers
    6.9/10(87 votes)

    #24 - The Pride of Sugarbakers

    S5:E24

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Ross

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"A Blast From the Past" is the best rated episode of "Designing Women" season 5. It scored 8.6/10 based on 103 votes. Directed by David Trainer and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/17/1990. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "Papa Was a Rolling Stone".