Designing Women

Sugarbaker's faces a severe test of their creative ability when the winner of their contest demands that they refurbish his run-down dilapidated gas station.

Mary Jo is in a power struggle for the affection of her children; Anthony learns a lesson about "plastic" money.

Anthony's fabrication of a pedigree family to impress his girlfriend's parents is shattered when an uninvited dinner guest informs him that he is the father of her son.

A wonderful young friend enlists the Sugarbaker firm's services for an unusual project -- he is dying of AIDS and wants them to design his funeral, and Mary Jo becomes involved in a PTA debate over sexually active school students.

At the same time the women are being driven crazy by an eccentric client with bizarre decorating requests, feisty Bernice Clifton announces she is entering a beauty contest for senior citizens and needs their advice and sponsorship.

Suzanne's ex-husband, writer Dash Goff, turns up in her life just in time to announce that he is contemplating suicide.

Reese hopes to prove he's more fit than his visiting buddy and sometime rival and challenges him to an arm-wrestling contest. Over Julia's protests, Reese strains himself to the limit and suffers a heart attack.

When the ladies of Sugarbaker's combine business with pleasure on a cruise ship; Mary Jo and Suzanne discover just how close they really are to each other.

When a handsome Army colonel appears at the Sugarbaker's shop, Charlene is sure hex friends have arranged his appearance as a surprise answer to her birthday wish for a soldier.

Suzanne insists on accompanying Anthony to St. Louis in the van when her flight is cancelled because of a snowstorm and they wind up sharing the last motel room avail-able for miles.

The women end up as a group date when they feel sorry for a former acquaintance who shows up dateless for his high school reunion.

A moonlighting Santa puts the spirit of Christmas to a real test when he steals the gifts he's been hired to put under the tree.

Anthony finds himself the unwilling business partner of a murdering ex-con who is planning to open a shop in Atlanta upon his parole.

When Charlene falls in love with a man who is still grieving the loss of his first wife, Julia relates her own experience and convinces him not to feel guilty about enjoying Charlene's company.

The Sugarbaker sisters disagree on how to treat their stepbrother who is arriving after being released from a mental hospital.

When Claudia is asked to a school dance by a young black boy, it turns out to be a double date with Mary Jo and his father.

The ladies of Sugarbaker's band together when Suzanne learns that her accountant has absconded with all her money and the Internal Revenue Service has impounded her home.

Suzanne puts her remaining few, dollars at risk when she visits an Atlantic City casino in an attempt to recoup her fortune.

Suzanne is thrilled when she and Julia are asked to join the exclusive Beaumont Driving club, but her excitement is temporarily dissipated when Julia expresses her dislike for the club's discriminatory practices.

Charlene faces an ethical crisis and resigns from her church.

Mary Jo faces a personal crisis when Ted, her ex-husband, re-enters her life.

A romantic ski weekend at a rustic cabin turns into a war of the sexes when the ladies of Sugarbaker's and their boyfriends are sidelined by an avalanche.