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The Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 6

Every episode of Designing Women Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 6!

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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 6 Episode 1 - The Big Desk (1)
    7.0/10(103 votes)

    #1 - The Big Desk (1)

    S6:E1

    Cousin Alison Sugarbaker buys out Suzanne's share of the business and then moves in, complete with an enormous desk and a take-charge attitude, Charlene's divorcing younger sister Carlene arrives.

    Director:Harry Thomason
    Writer:Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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  2. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 2 - The Big Desk (2)
    7.1/10(95 votes)

    #2 - The Big Desk (2)

    S6:E2

    Cousin Alison Sugarbaker buys out Suzanne's share of the business and then moves in, complete with an enormous desk and a take-charge attitude, Charlene's divorcing younger sister Carlene arrives.

    Director:Harry Thomason
    Writer:Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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  3. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 3 - A Toe in the Water
    6.9/10(80 votes)

    #3 - A Toe in the Water

    S6:E3

    Julia thinks she's ready to resume dating, but Alison disagrees, questioning the manliness of Julia's new beau. Meanwhile, Allison and Anthony continue to bicker about who owns Suzanne's house, until Anthony obtains an affidavit asserting his right to occupy the house -- and allows Allison to stay on only as her personal servant.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 4 - Dwayne's World
    7.0/10(77 votes)

    #4 - Dwayne's World

    S6:E4

    Mary Jo protectively takes divorcee Carlene under her wing -- going overboard with a lie about Carlene's latest flame -- when ex-hubby Dwayne shows up to sweep Carlene off her feet again.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 5 - Marriage Most Foul
    5.9/10(79 votes)

    #5 - Marriage Most Foul

    S6:E5

    When Allison's ex-convict former flame (whom she turned in for insider trading) is released, she fears he is plotting revenge, instead, he proposes to her.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 6 - Picking a Winner
    6.5/10(75 votes)

    #6 - Picking a Winner

    S6:E6

    Mary Jo turns to a sperm bank to get pregnant, prompting mixed reactions at work. Meanwhile, Julia threaten to rip the draperies from the windows of the home of a wealthy client whose payment is overdue.

    Director:Asaad Kelada
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 7 - Last Tango in Atlanta
    7.1/10(72 votes)

    #7 - Last Tango in Atlanta

    S6:E7

    When the Sugarbakers women are persuaded by Anthony to help with an outreach program at his former prison, they find themselves in the middle of a prison break and are held hostage by Anthony's old cellmate T. Tommy Reed -- who takes a liking to Allison.

    Director:Charles Frank
    Writer:Michael Ross

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  8. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 8 - The Strange Case of Clarence and Anita
    6.8/10(98 votes)

    #8 - The Strange Case of Clarence and Anita

    S6:E8

    Perhaps the most famous episode, and a rare instance of a situation comedy making direct political comment on a current issue. The Sugarbakers women take sides on the controversial confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill's accusation of sexual harassment: Mary Jo and Julia side with Hill and Allison with Thomas. Conflict spills over into Allison's birthday party, where Mary Jo and Julia turn up in costume just in time to hear a television interview about the hearings with Allison.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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  9. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 9 - Just Say Doe
    6.8/10(81 votes)

    #9 - Just Say Doe

    S6:E9

    When Mary Jo's womanizing brother visits, falls for Allison, and takes her and Quinton on a deer-hunting trip, the women secretly tag along.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 10 - Julia and Rusty, Sittin' in a Tree
    7.3/10(77 votes)

    #10 - Julia and Rusty, Sittin' in a Tree

    S6:E10

    Julia's second date with electrician Rusty becomes a group outing with Carlene and Allison dating junior-college guys, and Anthony tagging along to the drive-in with Bernice to keep an eye on things.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 11 - Julia and Mary Jo Get Stuck Under a Bed
    7.8/10(85 votes)

    #11 - Julia and Mary Jo Get Stuck Under a Bed

    S6:E11

    Mary Jo and Julia are trapped under anchorman Chuck Tremain's bed when a Christmas design contest inspires them to examine a competitor's handiwork for evidence of plagiarism.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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  12. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 12 - Real, Scary Men
    5.0/10(86 votes)

    #12 - Real, Scary Men

    S6:E12

    When their van breaks down the women become unwelcome guests at a men's club retreat Wildman Sanctuary, where Anthony is trying to land a new account.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 13 - Tales Out of School
    7.0/10(73 votes)

    #13 - Tales Out of School

    S6:E13

    Anthony sees opportunity when his normally unfriendly law professor is attracted to Carlene and invites the two of them to his annual Christmas party.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 14 - Driving My Mama Back Home
    7.0/10(77 votes)

    #14 - Driving My Mama Back Home

    S6:E14

    Julia accompanies Mary Jo and her mother Darla on an overnight bus trip back to South Carolina; meanwhile, the other employees get locked into the storage room while doing inventory.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 15 - Payne Comes Home
    7.0/10(78 votes)

    #15 - Payne Comes Home

    S6:E15

    Julia delights in the opportunity to dote on son Payne when he returns for a visit -- which Julia learns will be permanent.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 16 - Carlene's Apartment
    8.3/10(92 votes)

    #16 - Carlene's Apartment

    S6:E16

    Carlene moves into her own apartment on the wrong side of town, where space is at a minimum and burglars roam free, so the Sugarbakers staff visit to try to persuade her to find a better home.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 17 - Mamed
    7.6/10(85 votes)

    #17 - Mamed

    S6:E17

    A tough-talking, hard-drinking, temperamental Broadway has-been promises to make Julia rue the day that she stole the role of Mame from her in Anthony's community-theater production. But on opening night she is too drunk to perform and Anthony is pressed into taking on the role.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 18 - A Scene From a Mall
    7.3/10(84 votes)

    #18 - A Scene From a Mall

    S6:E18

    Julia stages a sit-in at the mall to protest racial mistreatment of Anthony by brutish cops who accosted him for window shopping near a jewelry store -- and television coverage links Anthony romantically with Allison.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 19 - All About Odes to Atlanta
    7.5/10(76 votes)

    #19 - All About Odes to Atlanta

    S6:E19

    Songwriter Carlene gains notoriety -- and her first groupie -- by entering her ditty in the semi-finals Atlanta's theme-song contest, where she performs with Mary Jo and Julia, all decked out in ""big hair"" and costumes.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 20 - I Enjoy Being a Girl
    6.4/10(77 votes)

    #20 - I Enjoy Being a Girl

    S6:E20

    On an overnight Girl Scout outing, Carlene's leadership abilities take a beating, while Allison's methods seem to charm the spoiled troopers, and Mary Jo and Julia advocate roughing it.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Norma Safford Vela

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  21. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 21 - L.A. Story
    6.6/10(69 votes)

    #21 - L.A. Story

    S6:E21

    Allison thinks she's invited to stay at Charles Nelson Reilly's home, so the decorators do Hollywood and get flimflammed on an expenses-paid trip accompanying investor Allison to the set of her movie.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 22 - A Little Night Music
    7.0/10(83 votes)

    #22 - A Little Night Music

    S6:E22

    Julia strolls down memory lane while awaiting the results of hysterectomy tests at a hospital whose workers are on strike, and a surgeon turns out to be her prescription for romance.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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  23. Designing Women Season 6 Episode 23 - Shades of Vanessa
    7.2/10(74 votes)

    #23 - Shades of Vanessa

    S6:E23

    The Sugarbakers women use Anthony as ""date bait"" to reel in a big account involving a hotelier's flamboyant debutante daughter, who's angling for a whopper of a deal, then Anthony announces he is marrying Vanessa, who intends to become a partner in Sugarbakers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"The Big Desk (1)" is the best rated episode of "Designing Women" season 6. It scored 7/10 based on 103 votes. Directed by Harry Thomason and written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, it aired on 9/16/1991. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Big Desk (2)".