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