Episode guide
Designing Women: Season 5
24 episodes · premiered Sep 17, 1990
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- Episode 1: A Blast From the Past Sep 17, 1990 · 30m 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…
- Episode 2: Papa Was a Rolling Stone Sep 24, 1990 · 30m Charlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost father.
- Episode 3: Working Mother Oct 1, 1990 · 30m 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…
- Episode 4: Miss Trial Oct 15, 1990 · 30m Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.
- Episode 5: The Bachelor Auction Oct 22, 1990 · 30m 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.
- Episode 6: Charlene Buys a House Oct 29, 1990 · 30m 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.
- Episode 7: Old Rebels and Young Models Nov 5, 1990 · 30m Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.
- Episode 8: Nowhere To Run To Nov 12, 1990 · 30m Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
- Episode 9: A Class Act Nov 19, 1990 · 30m Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.
- Episode 10: Keep the Home Fires Burning Nov 26, 1990 · 30m 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.
- Episode 11: My Daughter, Myself Dec 10, 1990 · 30m 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.
- Episode 12: And Now, Here's Bernice Dec 17, 1990 · 30m 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.
- Episode 13: Pearls of Wisdom Jan 7, 1991 · 30m 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.
- Episode 14: High Noon in a Laundry Room Jan 14, 1991 · 30m 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.
- Episode 15: How Long Has This Been Going On? Jan 28, 1991 · 30m 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…
- Episode 16: The Emperor's New Nose Feb 4, 1991 · 30m Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.
- Episode 17: Maybe, Baby Feb 11, 1991 · 30m Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.
- Episode 18: This is Art? Feb 25, 1991 · 30m 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…
- Episode 19: Blame it on New Orleans Mar 4, 1991 · 30m When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.
- Episode 20: I'll See You in Court Mar 18, 1991 · 30m Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.
- Episode 21: The Big Circle Apr 8, 1991 · 30m 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.
- Episode 22: Friends and Husbands Apr 29, 1991 · 30m Charlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book project.
- Episode 23: Fore! May 6, 1991 · 30m Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.
- Episode 24: The Pride of Sugarbakers May 13, 1991 · 30m Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.