Episode

Designing Women: Cruising

Name: Designing Women: Cruising
Released: 1987-11-16
Duration: 30 min
Cast: Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor, Jean Smart, Delta Burke

Designing WomenSeason 21987-11-16

Overview

Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.

Details

Series: Designing Women
Season: Season 2
Episode: Episode 8
Air date: 1987-11-16
Runtime: 30 min

Episode context

Cruising is Episode 8 in Season 2 of Designing Women. It aired on 1987-11-16. The runtime is 30 min.

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Episode 7: Heart Attacks 1987-11-09 | 30 min Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.

Episode 9: I'll Be Seeing You 1987-11-23 | 30 min Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.

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Episode 10: Stranded 1987-12-07 | 30 min While Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.

Episode 5: Half an Air Bubble Off 1987-10-19 | 30 min When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.

Episode 11: Howard the Date 1987-12-14 | 30 min 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.""

Episode 4: Killing All the Right People 1987-10-05 | 30 min "Killing All the Right People" is the 26th episode of the sitcom Designing Women. Originally airing on October 5, 1987, as the fourth episode of the second season, it features Tony Goldwyn as Kendall Dobbs, a young man dying of AIDS who asks the women to design his funeral. Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's mother died of AIDS and her experience with her mother's disease and the prejudice associated with it inspired the episode.

Episode 12: I'll Be Home For Christmas 1987-12-21 | 30 min 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.

Episode 3: Anthony, Jr. 1987-09-28 | 30 min Anthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriends' wealthy parents, inventing a pedigreed family -- then an uninvited dinner guest informs him he is the father of her child.

Episode 13: Great Expectations 1988-01-04 | 30 min Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.

Episode 2: Ted Remarries 1987-09-21 | 30 min Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.

Episode 14: Second Time Around 1988-01-11 | 30 min Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.