Episode
Designing Women: Ms. Meal Ticket
Overview
Mary-Jo overreacts to J.D.'s losing his job and moving in with her, but a psychic helps her sort out her feelings.
Details
- Series
- Designing Women
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1989-03-20
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Ms. Meal Ticket is Episode 16 in Season 3 of Designing Women. It aired on 1989-03-20. The runtime is 30 min.
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