Designing Women (1990) Season 5
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 whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
01 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.
9/17/1990
02 Charlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost father.
9/24/1990
03 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.
10/1/1990
04 Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.
10/15/1990
05 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.
10/22/1990
06 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.
10/29/1990
Old Rebels and Young Models 07 Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.
11/5/1990
08 Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
11/12/1990
09 Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.
11/19/1990
Keep the Home Fires Burning 10 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.
11/26/1990
11 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.
12/10/1990
12 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.
12/17/1990
13 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.
1/7/1991
High Noon in a Laundry Room 14 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.
1/14/1991
How Long Has This Been Going On? 15 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.
1/28/1991
16 Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.
2/4/1991
17 Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.
2/11/1991
18 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.
2/25/1991
19 When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.
3/4/1991
20 Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.
3/18/1991
21 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.
4/8/1991
22 Charlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book project.
4/29/1991
23 Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.
5/6/1991
24 Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.
5/13/1991
