Episode
Designing Women: Pearls of Wisdom
Overview
Mary Jo borrows and loses a string of pearls flaunted by Suzanne, subbing as a lifestyles reporter for local TV news. Meanwhile, a recurring dream about Julia upsets Anthony.
Details
- Series
- Designing Women
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1991-01-07
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Pearls of Wisdom is Episode 13 in Season 5 of Designing Women. It aired on 1991-01-07. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 12: And Now, Here's Bernice
After Bernice gets a local public-access cable TV show, Mary Jo has her heart broken by a client and decides that Bernice's show is the ideal arena to air her views on men.
Episode 14: High Noon in a Laundry Room
Anthony, concerned with his masculinity after working with the women so long, tries standing up to his bullying neighbor, and is further humiliated when the women come to his rescue.
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Episode 11: My Daughter, Myself
Mary Jo forbids her nearly 18-year-old daughter to date a 34-year-old, then dates him herself, Julia is forced to crash the men's room at a football stadium.
Episode 15: How Long Has This Been Going On?
Everyone at Sugarbakers is baffled to discover that sensible Julia has covertly been singing evenings at a nightclub, Anthony tries to muster the nerve to ask out a girl who works at the bookstore.
Episode 10: Keep the Home Fires Burning
With her husband away on a mission, Charlene guiltily draws close to a man in her support group for military spouses who wife is also away. Meanwhile, lottery fever sweeps Sugarbakers.
Episode 16: The Emperor's New Nose
Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.
Episode 9: A Class Act
Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.
Episode 17: Maybe, Baby
Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.
Episode 8: Nowhere To Run To
Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
Episode 18: This is Art?
Amateur painter Julia inadvertently becomes the darling of Atlanta's art scene when someone tries to buy her handbag while she's attending a gallery opening; Suzanne inadvertently glues her lips shut.
Episode 7: Old Rebels and Young Models
Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.
Episode 19: Blame it on New Orleans
When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.