The BEST episodes directed by Harry Thomason
#1 - Howard the Date
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 11
It's the mercy date from Hell when the female Sugarbakers staff accompany dateless Howard the nerd to his high-school reunion. Their sympathy quickly wears off when he begins to boast about handling his "four women."
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 12
Charlene and Anthony scheme to outsmart Mary Jo's disbelieving son on Christmas Eve -- until their hired Santa beats them to it, by swiping the Sugarbakers' Christmas gifts.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Ted Remarries (Ted and Tammy)
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 2
Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Half an Air Bubble Off
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 5
When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 1
A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Cruising
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 8
Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - How Great Thou Art
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 20
Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Killing All the Right People
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 4
News that a friend and fellow decorator is dying of AIDS (and wants Sugarbakers to design his funeral) gets Mary Jo fired up at a PTA debate on sex education and contraception.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - High Rollers
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 18
After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - The Women of Atlanta
Designing Women - Season 3 - Episode 19
A photographer shooting a magazine spread on the women of Atlanta asks the decorators to participate, but they become suspicious when he keeps encouraging sexier poses.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Oh, Suzannah
Designing Women - Season 1 - Episode 18
While in Reese's office to sign legal papers, Suzanne off-handedly volunteers to keep a Vietnamese boat child, Li Sing, who is being adopted but needs an interim home for the next four weeks while final papers are being completed. Suzanne becomes attached to Li Sing quickly and doesn't want to give her over to her new family
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 11
Fat as a feminist issue surfaces when Suzanne endures cruel jokes about her weight at her high-school reunion; Anthony enlists Julia and Mary Jo to join him in a two-day fast to focus attention on world hunger.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (2)
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 14
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Big Haas and Little Falsie
Designing Women - Season 3 - Episode 5
Mary-Jo contemplates breast enlargement after receiving an inheritance from her uncle Dude stipulating that she must spend it on something frivolous.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Their Finest Hour
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 26
An hour-long clip show of highlights from the previous seasons, including: razor-tongued Julia standing up for Suzanne against an insolent beauty pageant contestant, Julia defending Bernice's eccentricities, Mary Jo commenting on men and bra sizes, Charlene wondering about everything from killer bees to the personal habits of other women, Suzanne displaying a series of wacky dresses, and Anthony being plagued by a variety of indignities.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - The Wood Who Stole Christmas
Evening Shade - Season 1 - Episode 11
Tired of his kids' materialism, Wood gives their presents to a needy family.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - The Proxy Pig
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 1
Mary Jo uses the mansion she's decorating to entertain, and Anthony suffers when his health insurance lapses and Suzanne must nurse his injured back.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (1)
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 13
Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to deliver the first New Year's baby. Dolly Parton plays Charlene's "guardian movie star," who comes to her in a dream with news of her baby's birth, and Bernice goes for an unexpected ambulance ride.
#19 - The Big Desk (1)
Designing Women - Season 6 - Episode 1
Cousin Alison Sugarbaker buys out Suzanne's share of the business and then moves in, complete with an enormous desk and a take-charge attitude, Charlene's divorcing younger sister Carlene arrives.
#20 - The Big Desk (2)
Designing Women - Season 6 - Episode 2
#21 - A Day in the Life of Wood Newton
Evening Shade - Season 1 - Episode 1
On his birthday/wedding anniversary, an innocent Wood is photographed with a stripper; and Prosecuting Attorney candidate Ava discovers she's pregnant despite Wood's vasectomy.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - There Once Was a Boy Named Wood
Evening Shade - Season 1 - Episode 2
Frieda babysits, and fills in for Evan on poker night when he has a date with Miss Beausoleil.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - Whatever Happened to Clutch Newton?
Evening Shade - Season 1 - Episode 3
On seeing an old game film, Wood discovers his most celebrated high school touchdown catch was actually out of bounds.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Sex Education
Evening Shade - Season 1 - Episode 20
An in-over-his-head Herman substitute teaches a class in sex education, and calls in ""expert"" Wood.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - Herman and Margaret Sitting in a Tree
Evening Shade - Season 1 - Episode 22
Herman's relationship with Margaret hits a snag when she refuses to be seen with Herman on a formal ""date"".
Watch Now:Amazon#26 - Goin' to the Chapel (1)
Evening Shade - Season 2 - Episode 16
Wood must express the family's concern over Evan's wedding.
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