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Designing Women Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Episode 1
101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
Mon, Sep 14, 1987
To promote their business, the ladies raffle off a free room re-design. The winner of the drawing is a shiftless bum named Eldon Ashcroft IV who keeps changing his mind constantly.
Episode 2
Ted Remarries
Mon, Sep 21, 1987
Mary Jo is worried about losing control over Claudia and Quinton when Ted and his girlfriend Tammy start spoiling them.
Episode 3
Anthony Jr.
Mon, Sep 28, 198721 mins
After Suzanne is in a car accident, she decides to become more charitable. However, her idea of charity is helping Anthony make himself look more well-off than he is to impress his girlfriend's wealthy parents. She lets him use her house. But no one is prepared for the shock when a woman comes to the house claiming that he's the father of her baby.
Episode 4
Killing All the Right People
Mon, Oct 5, 1987
The ladies plan a funeral for a fellow designer who is dying of AIDS.
Episode 5
Half an Air Bubble Off
Mon, Oct 19, 198721 mins
An eccentric client falls in love with Julia, while Bernice enters a beauty pageant for senior citizens.
Episode 6
Dash Goff, the Writer
Mon, Oct 26, 198730 mins
Suzanne's ex-husband, novelist Dash Goff, is depressed because his latest book, "Being Belled" has failed to sell to either the movies or TV or to go into paperback.
Episode 7
Heart Attacks
Mon, Nov 9, 198730 mins
When Reese suffers a heart attack, Julia is reminded of how her husband died.
Episode 8
Cruising
Mon, Nov 16, 198721 mins
When the ladies are on a singles cruise ship, Suzanne and Mary Jo make a bet on who can catch the most attractive man.
Episode 9
I'll Be Seeing You
Mon, Nov 23, 198730 mins
Charlene meets and falls in love with Bill Stillfield, a recently widowed Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. That night, she dreams of herself in a World War II era bar. There she meets him, accepts his proposal of marriage, and believes he'll be back even though his plane is shot down in Europe.
Episode 10
Stranded
Mon, Dec 7, 198730 mins
The ladies are off to St. Louis for Design Expo, where Julia, Mary Jo and Charlene come down with the flu. Back in Atlanta, the airport closes due to snow before Suzanne, who is judging a beauty pageant, can leave, so she must ride in the van with Anthony. They stay in a small motel in Tennessee and end up in the same bed.
Episode 11
Howard the Date
Mon, Dec 14, 1987
Howard Earp Head, a socially inept, nosebleed-prone man the ladies met on the singles cruise, returns to beg Mary Jo to be his date for his 15th High School reunion.
Episode 12
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Mon, Dec 21, 198730 mins
At Christmastime, Mary Jo is upset because her son Quinton doesn't believe in Santa Claus and sets up a trap to prove it. Charlene, who plays Santa at her church, stops by to give him a surprise (with Anthony as an elf). Suzanne decides to surprise them and send a department-store Santa over there. Anthony gets caught and breaks his ankle, and the department store Santa steals the tree and all of the presents.
Episode 13
Great Expectations
Mon, Jan 4, 198821 mins
While Anthony's former inmate, T. Tommy Reed, offers him a job running his gift boutique, Mary Jo and J.D.'s respective children don't get along on their weekend together.
Episode 14
Second Time Around
Mon, Jan 11, 198821 mins
Bill tells Charlene he's not ready to go deeper into their relationship. Charlene becomes withdrawn, and Julia talks to Bill about how she felt when her husband Hayden died.
Episode 15
Oh, Brother
Mon, Jan 18, 198821 mins
Julia and Suzanne's half-brother Clayton, who has suffered from alcoholism and mental illness in the past, comes to town.
Episode 16
There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
Mon, Jan 25, 198830 mins
Mary Jo's daughter Claudia is going to the school dance with Kyle, a star football player who happens to be black. Mary Jo has no problem with this, but Kyle's father does.
Episode 17
The Return of Ray Don
Mon, Feb 1, 198830 mins
Suzzane learns she has amassed a large amount of back taxes and she has to pay it or....so she decides to marry a wealthy older man. When Julia learns of this, she decides to talk to IRS man Ray Don Simpson whom she had dealings with, to try and help her sister.
Episode 18
High Rollers
Mon, Feb 8, 198821 mins
Suzanne is now living with Charlene and selling lingerie to pay off the IRS. Charlene tells her a story about how the founder of Federal Express kept his company afloat. He went to Las Vegas and won enough money by gambling to make the payroll, Suzanne gets the same idea. She drags her and Anthony to Atlantic City with her last $4500.
Episode 19
The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club
Mon, Feb 15, 198830 mins
Suzanne applies for membership at the Beaumont Driving Club, the most exclusive country club in Atlanta, and files an application for Julia on her behalf. However, Julia doesn't want to belong to the club because of the type of exclusivity she believes they represent. When they accept her but not Suzanne, she lets them know what to do with the application.
Episode 20
How Great Thou Art
Mon, Feb 22, 198830 mins
Julia is chosen to sing a solo at the closing ceremony of the Baptist convention, but she worries about a high note in the arrangement of "How Great Thou Art". Charlene is upset when she discovers her minister is against allowing women to preach. She tries to persuade her minister to reconsider his position, but when he remains firm, she faces a painful decision.
Episode 21
Ted-Bare
Mon, Mar 21, 198830 mins
Mary Jo believes that Ted has changed and that he wants a reconciliation, in spite of his approaching wedding to Tammy.
Episode 22
Reservations for Eight
Mon, Mar 28, 198830 mins
The ladies take their boyfriends (and in Suzanne's case, ex-husband) on a skiing trip in the mountains of North Carolina, where an avalanche snows them in. Tensions flare up enough to turn into a major battle in the War Between Men and Women.
