Episode
Designing Women: Shades of Vanessa
Overview
The Sugarbakers women use Anthony as ""date bait"" to reel in a big account involving a hotelier's flamboyant debutante daughter, who's angling for a whopper of a deal, then Anthony announces he is marrying Vanessa, who intends to become a partner in Sugarbakers.
Details
- Series
- Designing Women
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1992-05-04
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Shades of Vanessa is Episode 23 in Season 6 of Designing Women. It aired on 1992-05-04. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 19: All About Odes to Atlanta
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Episode 18: A Scene From a Mall
Julia stages a sit-in at the mall to protest racial mistreatment of Anthony by brutish cops who accosted him for window shopping near a jewelry store -- and television coverage links Anthony romantically with Allison.
Episode 17: Mamed
A tough-talking, hard-drinking, temperamental Broadway has-been promises to make Julia rue the day that she stole the role of Mame from her in Anthony's community-theater production. But on opening night she is too drunk to perform and Anthony is pressed into taking on the role.
Episode 16: Carlene's Apartment
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Episode 15: Payne Comes Home
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Episode 14: Driving My Mama Back Home
Julia accompanies Mary Jo and her mother Darla on an overnight bus trip back to South Carolina; meanwhile, the other employees get locked into the storage room while doing inventory.
Episode 13: Tales Out of School
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Episode 12: Real, Scary Men
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