Designing Women

The ladies and their boyfriends, plus several of their children and grandchildren, look forward to a sunny Thanksgiving at a cozy beachside condo, but the hiring of Ursula, a voluptuous Scandinavian au pair, brings on a "heat wave" which makes every-one's temperature rise.

Julia is asked to run for the office of Supervisor, but her outspokenness may cost her the election.

When the ladies are given V.I.P. tickets to Elvis Presley's Graceland, Julia's eyes are opened to the powerful role Elvis played in many people's lives.

The women of Sugarbaker's are shocked when their eccentric friend Bernice becomes engaged to marry a man with a slight problem -- he proposes to every woman he meets!

While Charlene talks her boyfriend into "dating around," the ladies of Sugarbaker's come up with a solution to end the verbal harassment they've been receiving from a bunch of construction workers.

The women of Sugarbaker's find themselves literally in the middle of a labor dispute - with angry pickets surrounding the building.

Bernice treats the ladies to a three-day survival course in the wilderness, but they aren't prepared for the realities of so rugged an experience.

Anthony decides to serve as a surrogate brother to a troubled youth, and winds up having to face painful facts about his own childhood.

Sugarbaker's has had numerous clients who could kindly be termed eccentric, but their latest is the cat's meow.

The Sugarbaker ladies find it difficult to keep their cool when their latest assign-ment finds them at a nudist colony.

Hoping to clean up with some extra cash and enticing prizes, Charlene becomes a "Lady June" saleslady, and Suzanne sizzles when Anthony is up for an unusual honor from his junior college.

After spending the weekend at a chic, expensive beauty spa, Suzanne 's pique when her fellow workers ignore the results is allayed by the attention of a new client.

It's shades of "Romeo and Juliet" as two feuding mountain families descend on the women of Sugarbaker's.

A full moon over Atlanta finds the Sugarbaker ladies worried about sex, violence and crime -- not necessarily in that order.

Mary Jo invites J.D. to move in with her temporarily until his new home is ready, and the results are far from what she anticipated.

Charlene's announcement that she and Bill are getting married causes Mary Jo to have second thoughts about the dating scene now that she and J.D. have decided to go separate ways.

The Sugarbaker's ladies are in a frenzy as they happily prepare for Charlene's wedding, but Bill's stag party throws some dangerous curves that could sabotage the elegant plans.

The Sugarbaker's ladies are flattered and enthusiastic about a photo story on the working women of Atlanta, but soon they are suspicious when the photographer requests poses that are purely sexual.

When Mary Jo is mugged, Anthony persuades her and the ladies of Sugarbaker's to enroll in a self-defense course -- one that finds them learning mare than the latest moves.