Episode
Designing Women: The Mistress
Overview
The ladies are hired by wealthy stockbroker Ancel Pollard to decorate a house for a client's wife -- and a condo for his mistress. Suzanne is sure that straight laced Julia and Mary Jo will never go through with the assignment.
Details
- Series
- Designing Women
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1990-01-08
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Mistress is Episode 15 in Season 4 of Designing Women. It aired on 1990-01-08. The runtime is 30 min.
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