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Designing Women on CBS

1986, TV Show

Episode Detail: The Beauty Contest - Designing Women

Mary Jo's daughter, Claudia (Priscilla Weems), enters a beauty pageant, sparking reminiscences from ex-beauty queen Suzanne (Delta Burke). Mary Jo: Annie Potts. Charlene: Jean Smart. Julia: Dixie Carter.

Episodes: The Beauty Contest - Designing Women - 176 total Episodes

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The Big Desk
Pilot Episode
La Place Sans Souci
Gone with the Whim
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Trial and Error
Charlene Buys a House
Perky's Visit
Nashville Bound
There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
Tornado Watch
Reservations for Eight
Second Time Around
Foreign Affairs
A Blast from the Past
Hard Hats and Lovers
The Incredibly Elite Beaumont Driving Club
Design House
Dream Girls and Great Escapes
Monette
The Mistress
Pride of Sugarbakers
On the Road Again
Vision Thing
Last Humorously Dressed Bellboy in America
Fools Rush In
Big Haas and Little Falsies
They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?
Designing Women
Old Spouses Never Die
Payne Grows Up
Half an Air Bubble off
The Naked Truth
Oh, What a Feeling
There She Is
Blame It on New Orleans
A Little Night Music
Maybe Baby
Scene from a Mall
Anthony Jr.
I Do, I Don't
Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene
The 'IT' Men
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am
Julia Drives Over the First Amendment
Wedding Redux
Gone with the Whim
New Year's Daze
Seams from a Marriage
The Slumber Party
One Night with You
Proxy Pig
Stand and Fight
Suzanne Goes Looking for a Friend
Mamed
Birthday Presents and Other Strangers
Heart Attacks
I'll Be Seeing You
EP Phone Home
How Great Thou Art
Mr. Meal Ticket
Their Finest Hour
Mr. Bailey
101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
My Daughter, Myself
Old Rebels and Young Models
Their Finest Hour
The Return of Ray Don
Oh, Suzannah
Pilot Episode
Just Say Doe
Anthony's Graduation
Curtains
Bachelor Suite
Manhunt
A Big Affair
Julia's Son
The Candidate
It's a Wonderful Life
Nude Julia, New York Morning
Love Letters
Shovel Off to Buffalo
Gone with the Whim
Strange Case of Clarence and Anita
Old Spouses Never Die
The Big Desk
Odell
Pilot Episode
Carlene's Apartment
Working Mother
And Justice for Paul
The Big Circle
Friends and Husbands
Junies
Class Act
Designing Women
High Rollers
It's Not So Easy Being Green
Miss Trial
Old Spouses Never Die
How Long Has This Been Going On
This Is Art?
Tough Enough
The Wilderness Experience
You Got to Have Friends
Stranded
Ted Bare
Payne Comes Home
Julia and Mary Jo Get Stuck Under a Bed
Toe in the Water
Mary Jo's First Date
Dash Goff, the Writer
Full Moon
Cruising
The Girlfriend
Julia and Rusty Sittin' in a Tree
Their Finest Hour
Oh Dog, Poor Dog
Mary Jo vs. The Terminator
Odyssey
Bachelor Auction
Designing Women
Reese's Friend
One Sees, the Other Doesn't
Oh, Brother
Engagement
Dwayne's World
Pearls of Wisdom
The Emperor's New Nose
All About Odes to Atlanta
Bernice's Sanity Hearing
Howard the Date
I'll See You in Court
Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence
Real, Scary Men
Of Human Bondage
Great Expectations
The First Day of the Last Decade of the 20th Century
Woman Who Came to Sugarbaker's
The Big Desk
Tyrone
Women of Atlanta
Ted & Tammy
Last Tango in Atlanta
Picking a Winner
Shades of Vanessa
Fore!
Have Faith
Come on and Marry Me, Bill
Getting Married and Eating Dirt
Driving My Mama Back Home
Sex and the Single Woman
Marriage Most Foul
Anthony and Vanessa
Screaming Passage
High Noon in a Laundry Room
I Enjoy Being a Girl
The First Day of the Last Decade of the 20th Century
Sex, Lies and Bad Hair Days
Nightmare from Heehaw
The First Day of the Last Decade of the 20th Century
Lying Game
Killing All the Right People
The Fur Flies
LA Story
Rowdy Girls
Nowhere to Run to
Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure
Reservations for Twelve, Plus Ursula
Viva Las Vegas
The Beauty Contest
Too Dumb to Date
Tales out of School
And Now, Here's Bernice

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Premiered: September 29, 1986, on CBS

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Premise: Savvy single women run Sugarbakers, an Atlanta decorating business, in this saucy sitcom with feminist sensibilities, which also endured its share of tabloid notoriety (thanks in some measure to Delta Burke's fluctuating weight and her departure from the series in 1991). Created by Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the series garnered 11 Emmy nominations.

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