TV series
Designing Women
Overview
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.
Details
- First air date
- 1986-09-29
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 7 seasons
- Episodes
- 163 episodes
- Genres
- Comedy
- Network
- CBS
- Production
- Columbia Pictures Television, Mozark Productions, Embassy Television
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Dixie Carter as Julia Sugarbaker
- Annie Potts as Mary Jo Shively
- Meshach Taylor as Anthony Bouvier
- Jean Smart as Charlene Frazier Stillfield
- Delta Burke as Suzanne Sugarbaker
- Alice Ghostley as Bernice Clifton
- Jan Hooks as Carlene Frazier Dobber
- Julia Duffy as Allison Sugarbaker
- Judith Ivey as Bonnie Jean "B.J." Poteet
- Richard Gilliland as J.D. Shackleford
- Douglas Barr as Colonel Bill Stillfield
- Priscilla Weems as Claudia Shively
Creators and crew
- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason - Creator
- Harry Thomason - Executive Producer
- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason - Executive Producer
- Pamela Norris - Producer
- Douglas Jackson - Producer
- David Trainer - Producer
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