Season 2 (1987)
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Episodes 22
101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.
Read MoreTed Remarries
Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.
Read MoreAnthony, Jr.
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.
Read MoreKilling All the Right People
"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.
Read MoreHalf an Air Bubble Off
When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.
Read MoreDash Goff, the Writer
Suzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.
Read MoreHeart Attacks
Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.
Read MoreI'll Be Seeing You
Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.
Read MoreHoward the Date
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.""
Read MoreI'll Be Home For Christmas
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.
Read MoreGreat Expectations
Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.
Read MoreSecond Time Around
Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.
Read MoreOh, Brother
Julia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with aspirations to stand-up comedy.
Read MoreThere's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
Mary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.
Read MoreThe Return of Ray Don
A penniless Suzanne faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her possession and considers marriage to wealthy octogenarian Wilmont Oliver.
Read MoreHigh Rollers
After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise.
Read MoreThe Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club
Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by laws.
Read MoreHow Great Thou Art
Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.
Read MoreReservations for Eight
A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.
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