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The Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 7

Every episode of Designing Women Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 7!

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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 7 Episode 1 - Of Human Bondage
    7.4/10(86 votes)

    #1 - Of Human Bondage

    S7:E1

    After cousin Allison leaves Sugarbakers, Julia needs cash but is refused a bank loan. To cheer themselves up, the women play poker with a wealthy client -- who wins the business from them. Sugarbaker's could use an infusion of cash, and at a rowdy party given by potential new client B.J., the gals kick up their heels in wild abandon.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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  2. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 2 - Sex and the Single Woman
    6.8/10(79 votes)

    #2 - Sex and the Single Woman

    S7:E2

    Carlene allows herself to be seduced by her ex-husband, then admits she was just using him for sex.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 3 - Mary Jo vs. the Terminator
    7.3/10(85 votes)

    #3 - Mary Jo vs. the Terminator

    S7:E3

    After Julia completely rewrites a letter Mary Jo asked her to proofread, Mary Jo comes unraveled on a fashion-show runway, where she just plain has her fill of know-it-all Julia. Meanwhile, back at the office, B.J. has her hands full with angry vegetarians.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 4 - On the Road Again
    6.6/10(75 votes)

    #4 - On the Road Again

    S7:E4

    In an attempt at spontaneity, a carefree Mary Jo takes off for Nashville on ""a hen party on wheels"" with Julia and Bernice, but become terrified when a trucker Bernice flirted with at a diner pursues them. Meanwhile, back at the office, Carlene and Anthony put their noses to the grindstone studying for midterms.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 5 - Screaming Passages
    6.6/10(75 votes)

    #5 - Screaming Passages

    S7:E5

    Julia fears the emotional roller coaster of menopause -- just as her affair with Phillip heats up, and is upset when she discovers a Sugerbakers ""Change of Life"" surprise party.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Norma Safford Vela

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  6. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 6 - Viva Las Vegas (1)
    6.5/10(72 votes)

    #6 - Viva Las Vegas (1)

    S7:E6

    After Vanessa calls off their wedding, Anthony joins the gang on a getaway to Las Vegas, where he nurses his broken heart -- in the company of a show stopping showgirl he impulsively weds.

    Director:Charles Frank
    Writer:Norma Safford Vela

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  7. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 7 - Fools Rush In (2)
    6.7/10(71 votes)

    #7 - Fools Rush In (2)

    S7:E7

    BJ offers to help a desperate Anthony, who invents various schemes to extricate himself from his hasty marriage to a Las Vegas showgirl.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 8 - Love Letters
    7.1/10(76 votes)

    #8 - Love Letters

    S7:E8

    A steamy love letter from another woman found in James' safe-deposit box shatters B.J.'s image of her late husband as a faithful companion worthy of her trust. Meanwhile, reveling in the destruction of her old car, a symbol of her days as a suburban housewife, Mary Jo goes wild in a new red convertible.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Norma Safford Vela

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  9. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 9 - The Vision Thing
    5.8/10(73 votes)

    #9 - The Vision Thing

    S7:E9

    Etienne drives Anthony crazy trying to be the perfect wife, and the Sugarbakers crew throw a Las Vegas style wedding shower for them.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Norma Safford Vela

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  10. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 10 - Trial and Error
    5.5/10(75 votes)

    #10 - Trial and Error

    S7:E10

    B.J. goes overboard showering everyone with gifts, and law student Anthony gets carried away trying to help Mary Jo win a small-claims case involving her defective freezer.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 11 - Too Dumb to Date
    6.7/10(76 votes)

    #11 - Too Dumb to Date

    S7:E11

    Mary Jo dates a handsome idiot, a to-die-for toyboy male model who seems to have few toys in the attic and little in common with her.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 12 - The Odyssey
    5.9/10(80 votes)

    #12 - The Odyssey

    S7:E12

    B.J.'s contribution to the Democratic Party gets the Sugarbaker crew invited to the Inaugural Ball, but the trip proves to be a party for no one, even Julia, who struggles to maintain a cheery disposition in the face of disaster as bad weather forces a change in plans.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 13 - Oh Dog, Poor Dog
    6.7/10(70 votes)

    #13 - Oh Dog, Poor Dog

    S7:E13

    After eye surgery, Bernice overhears the gals talk of putting Mary Jo's dog out of its misery and figures they're planning her own mercy killing, so she barricades herself inside the storeroom. Meanwhile, Julia gets caught listing to a London phone line which plays tapes of Princess Diana's private conversations with her boyfriend.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 14 - Wedding Redux
    6.5/10(72 votes)

    #14 - Wedding Redux

    S7:E14

    Anthony and Etienne renew their vows for Etienne's visiting parents and Anthony's grandmother at a ceremony at B.J.'s, where anything that could go wrong does.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Mimi Pond

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  15. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 15 - Nude Julia, New York Morning
    6.5/10(75 votes)

    #15 - Nude Julia, New York Morning

    S7:E15

    Julia's old mentor for her bohemian art school days in New York unveils his nude portrait of Julia.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 16 - Sex, Lies and Bad Hair Days
    6.8/10(71 votes)

    #16 - Sex, Lies and Bad Hair Days

    S7:E16

    B.J.'s dating adventures take a turn for the worse on her birthday, when a bad-hair day and two miserable blind dates have her vowing to give up men, so Julia tries to cheer her up by getting her a date with a really nice fellow.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 17 - Shovel Off to Buffalo
    5.3/10(80 votes)

    #17 - Shovel Off to Buffalo

    S7:E17

    Worshiping hordes gather outside Sugarbaker's after the face of Elvis mysteriously appears on a snow shovel belonging to Mary Jo, who attracts the attention of a ""paraspectacular"" expert (Gilpin) -- especially when she apparently restores her neighbor's damaged hearing.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 18 - It's Not So Easy Being Green
    6.0/10(79 votes)

    #18 - It's Not So Easy Being Green

    S7:E18

    Anthony is jealous of Etienne's successful writer friend, who shares a vivid past with her, but tries to be gracious by throwing a signing party for him.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 19 - The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers
    7.2/10(77 votes)

    #19 - The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers

    S7:E19

    A visit from Julia's meddlesome former schoolmistress is extended -- on ghostly instructions from her deceased husband, it turns out -- until the desperate Sugarbakers women hold a seance to try to force her to leave.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 20 - The Lying Game
    7.5/10(76 votes)

    #20 - The Lying Game

    S7:E20

    There's no skirting the fact that Carlene is confused by new beau Eric (Kean), whose unusual habit (cross-dressing) she begins to understand only by tapping into her own masculine side.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 21 - Gone With a Whim (1)
    6.7/10(93 votes)

    #21 - Gone With a Whim (1)

    S7:E21

    With Sugarbaker's in such bad financial shape, the ladies are grateful when B. J. gets them a job redecorating a house that resembles the great home from Gone With The Wind --- until they find out that the new lady of the house plans to rip out the grand staircase and replace it with an elevator. To make matters worse, B. J. finds out that their client is trying to take over Poteet Industries and plans to give Sugarbaker's to his young bride Kiki --- renaming it ""Kikibaker's"".

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:David Steinberg

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  22. Designing Women Season 7 Episode 22 - Gone With a Whim (2)
    6.3/10(92 votes)

    #22 - Gone With a Whim (2)

    S7:E22

    With Julia continuing to fight to save the antebellum Kearney mansion, B.J. struggles to save Sugarbaker's and Poteet Industries from a take over from the Kearneys. However, despite their efforts, Kiki Kearney announces her new plans for ""Kikibaker's,"" Lester Kearney announces that the purchase of Poteet Industries is complete, and the modernizing of the mansion gets under way. Though Anthony and the women are fired for insubordination, when Craig, a friend of Mary Jo's, stumbles on some embarrassing news about the Kearney's illegal financial activities, Poteet Industries and Sugarbaker's are saved from the take over.

    Director:David Steinberg
    Writer:David Steinberg

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"Of Human Bondage" is the best rated episode of "Designing Women" season 7. It scored 7.4/10 based on 86 votes. Directed by David Steinberg and written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, it aired on 9/25/1992. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Sex and the Single Woman".