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Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7
Year: 1986  |  1987  |  1988  |  1989  |  1990  |  1991  |  1992  |  1993


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Designing Women

Original Air Date—29 September 1986
At the interior design firm of Sugarbaker & Associates in Atlanta, Georgia, thrice-divorced ex-beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker, younger sister of founder Julia, goes out with the ex-husband of her co-worker Mary Jo Shivley.

Season 1, Episode 2: The Beauty Contest

Original Air Date—6 October 1986
Mary Jo objects to her 12-year-old daughter Claudia entering in a beauty pageant.

Season 1, Episode 3: A Big Affair

Original Air Date—20 October 1986
Suzanne sets up Charlene on a blind date with a wholesaler of imported goods without telling her that he's significantly overweight.

Season 1, Episode 4: Julia's Son

Original Air Date—27 October 1986
Julia's son Payne comes home from college with his girlfriend: a professor named Primrose Horton who is at least twice his age.

Season 1, Episode 5: Mary Jo's First Date

Original Air Date—3 November 1986
Suzanne persuades Mary Jo to allow her to set her up with a date.

Season 1, Episode 6: Design House

Original Air Date—17 November 1986
Suzanne is bored with not being more involved in the actual work at Sugarbaker's, so Julia allows her to work on the very next assignment: Design House '86. As part of the requirement for the job, she spends the night there. The next morning it burns to the ground. Suzanne survives, but her future - and Sugarbaker's reputation - are in jeopardy.

Season 1, Episode 7: Perky's Visit

Original Air Date—24 November 1986
On Thanksgiving Day, Julia and Suzanne's mother Perky visits, along with her friend Bernice Clifton. However, a shadow is cast over the celebration when the women learn that a client was murdered after their delivery man, Anthony, argued with him.

Season 1, Episode 8: I Do, I Don't

Original Air Date—8 December 1986
Julia expects an engagement ring from her boyfriend, Reese Watson, but gets a canary instead. Nonetheless, they get married while drunk and annul the marriage the next morning, leaving Julia in a depressed state.

Season 1, Episode 9: The IT Men

Original Air Date—4 December 1986
While Charlene's boyfriend Mason is living in Tokyo, they have agreed to date other people. She goes with a man named Ed who is married to another woman, a fact she learns when Julia and Mary Jo meet with their latest client: his wife.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Slumber Party

Original Air Date—18 December 1986
Suzanne believes her maid, Consuela, has put a fatal voodoo curse on her to take effect at midnight. Just in case it comes true, the other ladies have a slumber party at Mary Jo's house.

Season 1, Episode 11: New Year's Daze

Original Air Date—1 January 1987
The ladies' New Year's Eve Party has a shadow cast over it-literally-when Charlene's boyfriend, Shadow, breaks out of prison to be with her.

Season 1, Episode 12: Old Spouses Never Die: Part 1

Original Air Date—1 February 1987
Mary Jo and J.D.'s romantic evening is interrupted when her ex-wife Ted brings home the children on a flimsy excuse. Meanwhile, Anthony is required to attend a $5,000 poker game after a run-in with a corrupt businessman, and Charlene looks for a new doctor when her old one says to "wait and see" after finding a lump in her breast.

Season 1, Episode 13: Old Spouses Never Die: Part 2

Original Air Date—1 February 1987
J.D. brings his ex-wife and Mary Jo's ex-husband Ted together to lay down some ground rules; Charlene goes in for a biopsy while Julia confronts her old doctor; Anthony tries to hide from two of Mr. BB's bodyguards.

Season 1, Episode 14: Monette

Original Air Date—8 February 1987
Charlene's old friend Monette, now calling herself "Monica," asks Sugarbaker & Associates to re-design her house. She can afford a budget of $100,000 to $150,000 because of her profession: the oldest profession; she is the owner of a brothel.

Season 1, Episode 15: And Justice for Paul

Original Air Date—15 February 1987
Charlene's boyfriend's offer of a discount on antique furniture turns out to be of stolen goods, landing the women in prison.

Season 1, Episode 16: Reese's Friend

Original Air Date—22 February 1987
Julia is jealous when Reese cancels six consecutive dates due to work involving a new lawyer at his firm; a young, attractive female one.

Season 1, Episode 17: Nashville Bound

Original Air Date—16 March 1987
Just as her entire family is coming to visit her in Atlanta, Charlene meets Gaylon King, a man who claims to be a record producer with the intent of launching her singing career.

Season 1, Episode 18: Oh, Suzannah

Original Air Date—23 March 1987
Suzanne becomes the foster mother to a Vietnamese boat girl for a month while the papers for her adoption by a Birmingham couple are being cleared. However, they become so attached that they don't want to split up.

Season 1, Episode 19: Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene

Original Air Date—6 April 1987
When Mary Jo's recently divorced father, Davis Jackson, comes to town, he is instantly smitten with Charlene.

Season 1, Episode 20: Seams from a Marriage

Original Air Date—13 April 1987
The ladies are overwhelmed by their latest clients: an ultra-rich couple that lavishes them with gifts and trips.

Season 1, Episode 21: Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am

Original Air Date—4 May 1987
Suzanne's ex-husband, an Atlanta Braves pitcher named Jack Dent, writes a scandalous autobiography in which he admits to an unprecedented amount of infidelity during their three-year marriage.

Season 1, Episode 22: Bachelor Suite

Original Air Date—11 May 1987
A wealthy client makes a pass at Mary Jo.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station

Original Air Date—14 September 1987

Season 2, Episode 2: Ted Remarries

Original Air Date—21 September 1987

Season 2, Episode 3: Anthony Jr.

Original Air Date—28 September 1987

Season 2, Episode 4: Killing All the Right People

Original Air Date—5 October 1987
The ladies plan a funeral for a fellow designer who is dying of AIDS.

Season 2, Episode 5: Half an Air Bubble Off

Original Air Date—19 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 6: Dash Goff, the Writer

Original Air Date—26 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 7: Heart Attacks

Original Air Date—9 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 8: Cruising

Original Air Date—16 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 9: I'll Be Seeing You

Original Air Date—23 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 10: Stranded

Original Air Date—7 December 1987

Season 2, Episode 11: Howard the Date

Original Air Date—14 December 1987

Season 2, Episode 12: I'll Be Home for Christmas

Original Air Date—21 December 1987

Season 2, Episode 13: Great Expectations

Original Air Date—4 January 1988

Season 2, Episode 14: Second Time Around

Original Air Date—11 January 1988

Season 2, Episode 15: Oh, Brother

Original Air Date—18 January 1988

Season 2, Episode 16: There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner

Original Air Date—25 January 1988

Season 2, Episode 17: The Return of Ray Don

Original Air Date—1 February 1988

Season 2, Episode 18: High Rollers

Original Air Date—8 February 1988

Season 2, Episode 19: The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club

Original Air Date—15 February 1988

Season 2, Episode 20: How Great Thou Art

Original Air Date—22 February 1988
Julia is chosen to sing a solo at the closing ceremony of the Baptist convention, but she worries about a high note in the arrangement of "How Great Thou Art". Charlene is upset when she discovers her minister is against allowing women to preach. She tries to persuade her minister to reconsider his position, but when he remains firm, she faces a painful decision.

Season 2, Episode 21: Ted-Bare

Original Air Date—21 March 1988

Season 2, Episode 22: Reservations for Eight

Original Air Date—28 March 1988

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Reservations for 12, Plus Ursula

Original Air Date—14 November 1988

Season 3, Episode 2: The Candidate

Original Air Date—21 November 1988

Season 3, Episode 3: E.P., Phone Home

Original Air Date—28 November 1988

Season 3, Episode 4: Getting Married and Eating Dirt

Original Air Date—5 December 1988

Season 3, Episode 5: Big Haas and Little Falsie

Original Air Date—12 December 1988

Season 3, Episode 6: Hard Hats and Lovers

Original Air Date—19 December 1988

Season 3, Episode 7: But They're Really Great Curtains

Original Air Date—2 January 1989

Season 3, Episode 8: The Wilderness Experience

Original Air Date—9 January 1989

Season 3, Episode 9: Tyrone

Original Air Date—16 January 1989

Season 3, Episode 10: Mr. Bailey

Original Air Date—23 January 1989

Season 3, Episode 11: The Naked Truth

Original Air Date—13 February 1989

Season 3, Episode 12: The Junies

Original Air Date—20 February 1989

Season 3, Episode 13: One Sees, the Other Doesn't

Original Air Date—27 February 1989

Season 3, Episode 14: Odell

Original Air Date—6 March 1989

Season 3, Episode 15: Full Moon

Original Air Date—13 March 1989

Season 3, Episode 16: Ms. Meal Ticket

Original Air Date—20 March 1989

Season 3, Episode 17: The Engagement

Original Air Date—27 March 1989

Season 3, Episode 18: Come on and Marry Me, Bill

Original Air Date—10 April 1989

Season 3, Episode 19: The Women of Atlanta

Original Air Date—1 May 1989

Season 3, Episode 20: Stand and Fight

Original Air Date—8 May 1989

Season 3, Episode 21: The Last Humorously-Dressed Bellboy in America

Original Air Date—15 May 1989

Season 3, Episode 22: Julia Drives Over the First Amendment

Original Air Date—22 May 1989

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: The Proxy Pig and Great Pretenders

Original Air Date—18 September 1989

Season 4, Episode 2: One Night with You

Original Air Date—25 September 1989

Season 4, Episode 3: There She Is

Original Air Date—2 October 1989

Season 4, Episode 4: Nightmare from Hee Haw

Original Air Date—16 October 1989

Season 4, Episode 5: The Girlfriend

Original Air Date—23 October 1989

Season 4, Episode 6: The Rowdy Girls

Original Air Date—30 October 1989

Season 4, Episode 7: Bernice's Sanity Hearing

Original Air Date—13 November 1989

Season 4, Episode 8: Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence

Original Air Date—20 November 1989
Sugarbaker's is hired to decorate the Governor's mansion for its annual ball. Anthony receives an invitation to the ball, but Suzanne is dismayed when she doesn't. After decorating the "Abbott banister" at the mansion, Julia is persuaded by the others to do something silly and winds up with her head stuck in the banister, which cannot be cut due to its historical significance.

Season 4, Episode 9: Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure

Original Air Date—27 November 1989
Julia and Suzanne experience a series of mishaps on a trip to Japan to visit their mother and to pick up Suzanne's new car. Meanwhile, Anthony and Mary Jo cast votes in a call-in poll unaware that each call costs money.

Season 4, Episode 10: Manhunt

Original Air Date—4 December 1989

Season 4, Episode 11: They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?

Original Air Date—11 December 1989
Suzanne attends her high school reunion, where people shun her because she weighs more than she did in high school.

Season 4, Episode 12: You Got to Have Friends

Original Air Date—18 December 1989

Season 4, Episode 13: The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century: Part 1

Original Air Date—1 January 1990
Charlene is due on the first of January; if hers is the first baby born in the decade she wins a new car.

Season 4, Episode 14: The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century: Part 2

Original Air Date—1 January 1990
Charlene goes into labor, while the other ladies meet a dying 102-year-old black woman who tells them of her life experience as a woman of color in the South.

Season 4, Episode 15: The Mistress

Original Air Date—8 January 1990

Season 4, Episode 16: The Fur Flies

Original Air Date—15 January 1990

Season 4, Episode 17: Oh, What a Feeling

Original Air Date—29 January 1990

Season 4, Episode 18: Anthony and Vanessa

Original Air Date—5 February 1990

Season 4, Episode 19: Payne Grows Up

Original Air Date—19 February 1990

Season 4, Episode 20: Tornado Watch

Original Air Date—26 February 1990

Season 4, Episode 21: Tough Enough

Original Air Date—12 March 1990

Season 4, Episode 22: It's a Wonderful Life

Original Air Date—19 March 1990

Season 4, Episode 23: Foreign Affairs

Original Air Date—3 April 1990

Season 4, Episode 24: Suzanne Goes Looking for a Friend

Original Air Date—9 April 1990

Season 4, Episode 25: Have Faith

Original Air Date—7 May 1990

Season 4, Episode 26: Their Finest Hour

Original Air Date—9 May 1990

Season 4, Episode 27: Anthony's Graduation

Original Air Date—14 May 1990

Season 4, Episode 28: La Place sans Souci

Original Air Date—21 May 1990
Suzanne invites everyone, including Anthony, for a weekend at a fancy health spa at her expense. While Julia and Mary Jo try to gain weight, Suzanne and Charlene suffer on the stringent plan to lose weight. Suzanne also plots to get even with Mary Jo and Julia for making her and Charlene feel dumb by challenging them to a game of Trivial Pursuit to which she has memorized all the answers.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: A Blast from the Past

Original Air Date—17 September 1990

Season 5, Episode 2: Papa Was a Rolling Stone

Original Air Date—24 September 1990

Season 5, Episode 3: Working Mother

Original Air Date—1 October 1990

Season 5, Episode 4: Miss Trial

Original Air Date—15 October 1990

Season 5, Episode 5: The Bachelor Auction

Original Air Date—22 October 1990

Season 5, Episode 6: Charlene Buys a House

Original Air Date—29 October 1990

Season 5, Episode 7: Old Rebels and Young Models

Original Air Date—5 November 1990

Season 5, Episode 8: Nowhere to Run To

Original Air Date—12 November 1990

Season 5, Episode 9: A Class Act

Original Air Date—19 November 1990

Season 5, Episode 10: Keep the Homes Fires Burning

Original Air Date—26 November 1990

Season 5, Episode 11: My Daughter, Myself

Original Air Date—10 December 1990

Season 5, Episode 12: And Now, Here's Bernice

Original Air Date—17 December 1990

Season 5, Episode 13: Pearls of Wisdom

Original Air Date—7 January 1991

Season 5, Episode 14: High Noon in a Laundry Room

Original Air Date—14 January 1991

Season 5, Episode 15: How Long Has This Been Going On?

Original Air Date—28 January 1991
Julia secretly sings in a nightclub; Anthony is attracted to an Asian woman.

Season 5, Episode 16: The Emperor's New Nose

Original Air Date—4 February 1991

Season 5, Episode 17: Maybe, Baby

Original Air Date—11 February 1991

Season 5, Episode 18: This Is Art?

Original Air Date—25 February 1991

Season 5, Episode 19: Blame It on New Orleans

Original Air Date—4 March 1991

Season 5, Episode 20: I'll See You in Court

Original Air Date—18 March 1991

Season 5, Episode 21: The Big Circle

Original Air Date—8 April 1991

Season 5, Episode 22: Friends and Husbands

Original Air Date—29 April 1991

Season 5, Episode 23: Fore!

Original Air Date—6 May 1991

Season 5, Episode 24: The Pride of Sugarbakers

Original Air Date—13 May 1991

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: The Big Desk: Part 1

Original Air Date—16 September 1991

Season 6, Episode 2: The Big Desk: Part 2

Original Air Date—16 September 1991

Season 6, Episode 3: A Toe in the Water

Original Air Date—23 September 1991

Season 6, Episode 4: Dwayne's World

Original Air Date—30 September 1991

Season 6, Episode 5: Marriage Most Foul

Original Air Date—7 October 1991

Season 6, Episode 6: Picking a Winner

Original Air Date—14 October 1991

Season 6, Episode 7: Last Tango in Atlanta

Original Air Date—21 October 1991

Season 6, Episode 8: The Strange Case of Clarence and Anita

Original Air Date—4 November 1991

Season 6, Episode 9: Just Say Doe

Original Air Date—11 November 1991

Season 6, Episode 10: Julia and Rusty, Sittin' in a Tree

Original Air Date—18 November 1991

Season 6, Episode 11: Julia and Mary Jo Get Stuck Under a Bed

Original Air Date—2 December 1991

Season 6, Episode 12: Real, Scary Men

Original Air Date—9 December 1991

Season 6, Episode 13: Tales Out of School

Original Air Date—16 December 1991

Season 6, Episode 14: Driving My Mama Back Home

Original Air Date—6 January 1992

Season 6, Episode 15: Payne Comes Home

Original Air Date—13 January 1992

Season 6, Episode 16: Carlene's Apartment

Original Air Date—20 January 1992

Season 6, Episode 17: Mamed

Original Air Date—3 February 1992

Season 6, Episode 18: A Scene from a Mall

Original Air Date—24 February 1992

Season 6, Episode 19: All About Odes to Atlanta

Original Air Date—2 March 1992

Season 6, Episode 20: I Enjoy Being a Girl

Original Air Date—9 March 1992

Season 6, Episode 21: L.A. Story

Original Air Date—23 March 1992

Season 6, Episode 22: A Little Night Music

Original Air Date—27 April 1992

Season 6, Episode 23: Shades of Vanessa

Original Air Date—4 May 1992

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: Of Human Bondage

Original Air Date—25 September 1992

Season 7, Episode 2: Sex and the Single Woman

Original Air Date—2 October 1992

Season 7, Episode 3: Mary Jo vs. the Terminator

Original Air Date—16 October 1992

Season 7, Episode 4: On the Road Again

Original Air Date—23 October 1992

Season 7, Episode 5: Screaming Passages

Original Air Date—30 October 1992

Season 7, Episode 6: Viva Las Vegas

Original Air Date—6 November 1992

Season 7, Episode 7: Fools Rush In

Original Air Date—13 November 1992

Season 7, Episode 8: Love Letters

Original Air Date—20 November 1992

Season 7, Episode 9: The Vision Thing

Original Air Date—4 December 1992

Season 7, Episode 10: Trial and Error

Original Air Date—11 December 1992

Season 7, Episode 11: Too Dumb to Date

Original Air Date—8 January 1993

Season 7, Episode 12: The Odyssey

Original Air Date—15 January 1993

Season 7, Episode 13: Oh Dog, Poor Dog

Original Air Date—22 January 1993

Season 7, Episode 14: Wedding Redux

Original Air Date—5 February 1993

Season 7, Episode 15: Nude Julia, New York Morning

Original Air Date—12 February 1993

Season 7, Episode 16: Sex, Lies and Bad Hair Days

Original Air Date—5 March 1993

Season 7, Episode 17: Shovel Off to Buffalo

Original Air Date—12 March 1993

Season 7, Episode 18: It's Not So Easy Being Green

Original Air Date—2 April 1993

Season 7, Episode 19: The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers

Original Air Date—30 April 1993

Season 7, Episode 20: The Lying Game

Original Air Date—7 May 1993

Season 7, Episode 21: Gone with a Whim: Part 1

Original Air Date—24 May 1993
The ladies try to stop a client from remodeling an antebellum mansion to suit her own bad tastes; it reminds them of their favorite movie "Gone With the Wind."

Season 7, Episode 22: Gone with a Whim: Part 2

Original Air Date—24 May 1993
The show's seven-year run comes to a close as the ladies continue to imagine themselves in "Gone with the Wind."

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