Designing Women

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Designing Women ranks 2,090 out of the 23 shows on TV.com.

The 249 users who count themselves as Designing Women fans have written a total of 16 reviews.

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Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts), Charlene Frazier-Stillfield (Jean Smart) and Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia Sugarbaker is the owner of Sugarbaker and Associates and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo... more »

Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts), Charlene Frazier-Stillfield (Jean Smart) and Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia Sugarbaker is the owner of Sugarbaker and Associates and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo Shively is a divorced single-parent who 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 Sugarbaker is the self-centered ex-beauty queen who has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.

At the end of Season 5 Delta Burke was fired from the series and Jean Smart left to pursue other goals. Two new characters were introduced: Allison Sugarbaker (Julia Duffy) and Carlene Frazier Dobber (Jan Hooks). Soon, Julia Duffy was taken out of the series and a final cast change brought in Bonnie Jean "B.J." Poteet (Judith Ivey).

The series was very successful for CBS, lasting 7 seasons (163 episodes). Reruns from the series continue to air on Lifetime.

In 1995, Delta Burke reconciled with the series creators and reprised her role of Suzanne Sugarbaker for the far less successful spin-off Women of the House, which co-starred Teri Garr and Patricia Heaton. Carter, Burke, and Bloodworth-Thomason had all previously worked together on the 1982-83 sitcom Filthy Rich, from which a lot of dialogue in Designing Women was recycled.
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(Top 30 or Better)

#23 in the 1989- 1990 Season

#11 in the 1990- 1991 Season

#6 in the 1991- 1992 Season
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• DVD info thread

  May 26th, 2009 is the date. More info here.

  May 26th, 2009 is the date. More info here.less «

  telvisnostic Last online 2 hrs, 54 mins ago
  2 comments, last one May 7, 2009 + Add Comment

• New Timeslot

  Not sure if anyone knows, but the Women are airing at 4am on TVLand Tues.-Fridays. They recently brought them back after they took them off the 8am and 4am weekly timeslots. http://www.tvland.com/shows/designingwomen/

  Not sure if anyone knows, but the Women are airing at 4am on TVLand Tues.-Fridays. They recently brought them back after they took them off the 8am and 4am weekly timeslots. http://www.tvland.com/shows/designingwomen/ less «

  telvisnostic Last online 2 hrs, 54 mins ago
  1 comments, last one Oct 18, 2008 + Add Comment

• Favorite episode?

  Mine has to be Reservations For 8. I love the men vs women fight they have when they're snowed in. It's incredibly funny. 

  Mine has to be Reservations For 8. I love the men vs women fight they have when they're snowed in. It's incredibly funny. less «

  Sunflower923 Last online 12 days ago
  16 comments, last one Jun 28, 2008 + Add Comment

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  10 Perfect

  This show is one of my favorite shows. When I go back home in the USA I want to get DVDs if I can find any. hide « show »

  I think my favorite woman has to be Suzanne Sugarbaker. Next one is Julia, her sister. I could watch the series all day long! I remember my favorite writer Lewis Grizzard was a guest star in it. I was in heaven! Anthony was so funny, and every show was just as good as the other one! I wish they would have shown the series here in the UK where I now live.
  I enjoy the language and Southern hospitality in the show, and the proper manners and the old fashioned traditions. Well, what boils down is that we need more Southern shows like this.

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  dixiedelight001 Added Nov 26, 2007 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  It was a classic show. hide « show »

  I loved Designing Women. It lost some of it's appeal when Suzanne and Charlene lefet, but it was still funny. My favorite character was Julia. She was this polite, sophiticated woman, but when you got on her bad side, she'd go Terminator on you, which I found to be funny, but also true about whoever her anger was aimed at. My favorite episode with Julia was Full Moon, or the name of it was close to that. I loved the fact that she was always sticking up for what she thought was right. That episode where she kept crashing her car into a stand that had posters she spoke of as degrading to women. Mary Jo was my second favorite. Especially in the Big Hass episode, when she was talking about how big breast could get you anything. Mary Jo, i think would be in everyones top two, of the funniest ones of them all. I wasn't to happy when Suzanne ans Charlene left, but that epsidoe when they all spent the night at Charlene's (or is it Carlene's? I think both her and charlene's names were spelt the same) new apartment, had me laughing hard. I love old classic shows like these.

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  Prowler86Kid Added Jul 29, 2007 All my reviews
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  1 Abysmal

  HAHA!!! What a disgrace to tv sitcoms!! I wish i could give it a zero!!! hide « show »

  This show is an absolute joke. I cannot believe I watched it. The only reason I watched it twice was because my sister held me at gunpoint!!! It is an absolute waste of 7 years. I pity anyone who watched it. It really screwed up a lot of little boys. My sister is the spitting image of Dixie Carter a.k.a. Julia. That character alone caused many people to flee in terror about her speech about "the night the lights went out in georgia". Many still have a complex about my sister reenacting it. It is completley a horror....Don't watch the reruns!!! Thank god they took them off the telly!!!!!

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  YummyLuvr11 Added Apr 3, 2007 All my reviews
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  6.9 Fair

  Except for using the Anthony as a glorified donkey, it was an OK show . . . hide « show »

  Four women who shared stories, meals, secrets and sometimes worked on designing people's homes. Worked is a stretch, because most of the time, they did more gossiping than anything else. But that was fine-because it seemed more realistic that way. Delta Burke, who played Suzanne Sugarbaker made this show. She was honest and conceited and stereotypically southern. Although I don't like the way she treated Anthony like her own personal slave-she did grow to have a very strong friendship onscreen with him. The next funniest character was definitely Charlene. She was a loveable character whose naivity was only matched by her crazy back woods charm and her 'back home in Poplar Bluff' stories. The other 2 ladies, Julia and Mary Jo, I didn't care for that much. This was a wonderful show when the original characters appeared; after Delta and Jean Smart left- there was a lot taken away from the sorority/sisterhood that the original actresses had formed.

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  ez1jb Added Aug 25, 2006 All my reviews
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  5.5 Mediocre

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  i can not believe how long this show was on. it lasted a lot longer than i thought it ever would. i never thought it was that funny. delta burke occasionally made me chuckle but that was about it. and meeshack taylor, i do not understand what his function on the show even was.

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  CAPNDEL Added Jul 14, 2006 All my reviews