- 10.0/10(1)
#1 - Killing All the Right People
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 10/5/1987
"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.
Director: Harry Thomason
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 9.0/10(1)
#2 - Reservations for Eight
Season 2 Episode 22
Aired 3/28/1988
A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.
Director: Hal Holbrook
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 8.3/10(3)
#3 - Soldier of the Month
Season 4 Episode 12
Aired 11/28/1975
Frank has a fever and makes a will, leaving all his money to his wife and all his clothes to Hot Lips.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 8.0/10(1)
#4 - 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
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0 - 8.0/10(1)
#5 - 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
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0 - 8.0/10(1)
#6 - 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
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0 - 8.0/10(1)
#7 - 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
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0 - 8.0/10(1)
#8 - Heart Attacks
Season 2 Episode 7
Aired 11/9/1987
Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.
Director: Matthew Diamond
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 8.0/10(1)
#9 - Cruising
Season 2 Episode 8
Aired 11/16/1987
Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.
Director: Harry Thomason
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 8.0/10(1)
#10 - Howard the Date
Season 2 Episode 11
Aired 12/14/1987
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.""
Director: Harry Thomason
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 8.0/10(1)
#11 - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Season 2 Episode 12
Aired 12/21/1987
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.
Director: Harry Thomason
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 8.0/10(1)
#12 - High Rollers
Season 2 Episode 18
Aired 2/8/1988
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.
Director: Harry Thomason
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 7.8/10(6)
#13 - The Nurses
Season 5 Episode 5
Aired 10/19/1976
The nurses go behind Margaret's back so that a fellow nurse confined to her tent can spend the night with her soldier husband who is paying her a surprise visit.
Director: Joan Darling
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 7.5/10(2)
#14 - Springtime
Season 3 Episode 6
Aired 10/15/1974
When spring arrives, Klinger gets word from home that his sweetheart back in Toledo wants to marry him. Henry arranges for Father Mulcahy to do this over short wave radio. Radar falls in love with a nurse, while a grateful patient won't leave Hawkeye alone, and even threatens Major Burns.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 7.3/10(3)
#15 - Hot Lips and Empty Arms
Season 2 Episode 14
Aired 12/15/1973
Depressed by news from home, Margaret examines her life and decides to request a transfer.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 7.0/10(1)
#16 - A Day in the Life of Wood Newton
Season 1 Episode 1
Aired 9/21/1990
On his birthday/wedding anniversary, an innocent Wood is photographed with a stripper; and Prosecuting Attorney candidate Ava discovers she's pregnant despite Wood's vasectomy.
Director: Harry Thomason
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 7.0/10(1)
#17 - There Once Was A Boy Named Wood
Season 1 Episode 2
Aired 9/28/1990
Frieda babysits, and fills in for Evan on poker night when he has a date with Miss Beausoleil.
Director: Harry Thomason
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 7.0/10(1)
#18 - 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
Season 2 Episode 1
Aired 9/14/1987
A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.
Director: Harry Thomason
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 7.0/10(1)
#19 - Anthony, Jr.
Season 2 Episode 3
Aired 9/28/1987
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.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 7.0/10(1)
#20 - Great Expectations
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 1/4/1988
Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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0 - 7.0/10(1)
#21 - Their Finest Hour
Season 4 Episode 26
Aired 5/9/1990
An hour-long clip show of highlights from the previous seasons, including: razor-tongued Julia standing up for Suzanne against an insolent beauty pageant contestant, Julia defending Bernice's eccentricities, Mary Jo commenting on men and bra sizes, Charlene wondering about everything from killer bees to the personal habits of other women, Suzanne displaying a series of wacky dresses, and Anthony being plagued by a variety of indignities.
Director: N/A
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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