Designing Women season 1 Seams from a Marriage - Metacritic

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TV-PG
CBS
Apr 13, 1987
21 m

TV-PG
CBS
Apr 13, 1987
21 m

Summary 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 sin...

Comedy

Directed By: Jack Shea

Written By: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, E. Jack Kaplan

TV-PG
CBS
Apr 13, 1987
21 m

TV-PG
CBS
Apr 13, 1987
21 m

Designing Women

S1 • Episode 20

Seams from a Marriage

Air Date: Apr 13, 1987

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Summary 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 sin...

Comedy

Created By: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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Episode 1 • Sep 29, 1986 • 30 m

Designing Women

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.

Episode 2 • Oct 6, 1986 • 30 m

The Beauty Contest

Mary Jo objects to her 12-year-old daughter Claudia entering in a beauty pageant.

Episode 3 • Oct 20, 1986 • 30 m

Suzanne sets up Charlene on a blind date with a wholesaler of imported goods without telling her that he's significantly overweight.

Episode 4 • Oct 27, 1986 • 30 m

Julia's son Payne comes home from college with his girlfriend: a professor named Primrose Horton who is at least twice his age.

Episode 5 • Nov 3, 1986 • 30 m

Mary Jo's First Date

Suzanne persuades Mary Jo to allow her to set her up with a date.

Episode 6 • Nov 17, 1986 • 30 m

Episode 7 • Nov 24, 1986 • 30 m

Episode 8 • Dec 4, 1986 • 30 m

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.

Episode 9 • Dec 11, 1986 • 30 m

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.

Episode 10 • Dec 18, 1986 • 21 m

The Slumber Party

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.

Episode 11 • Jan 1, 1987 • 30 m

New Year's Daze

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.

Episode 12 • Feb 1, 1987

Old Spouses Never Die: Part 1

Episode 13 • Feb 1, 1987

Old Spouses Never Die: Part 2

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.

Episode 14 • Feb 8, 1987 • 21 m

Episode 15 • Feb 15, 1987 • 30 m

And Justice for Paul

Charlene's boyfriend's offer of a discount on antique furniture turns out to be of stolen goods, landing the women in prison.

Episode 16 • Feb 22, 1987 • 30 m

Julia is jealous when Reese cancels six consecutive dates due to work involving a new lawyer at his firm; a young, attractive female one.

Episode 17 • Mar 16, 1987 • 22 m

Nashville Bound

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.

Episode 18 • Mar 23, 1987 • 30 m

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.

Episode 19 • Apr 6, 1987 • 22 m

Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene

When Mary Jo's recently divorced father, Davis Jackson, comes to town, he is instantly smitten with Charlene.

Episode 20 • Apr 13, 1987 • 21 m

Seams from a Marriage

The ladies are overwhelmed by their latest clients: an ultra-rich couple that lavishes them with gifts and trips.

Episode 21 • May 4, 1987 • 22 m

Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am

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.

Episode 22 • May 11, 1987 • 30 m

A wealthy client makes a pass at Mary Jo.

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