Designing Women

Designing Women is one of America's favorite past television sitcoms that aired on CBS from 1986 to 1993. The show followed the professional and personal live of four women and one man who lived and worked in their interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. Created by writer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the show was about sisters Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter) and Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) who are complete opposites of one another. Julia is the highly educated and refined sister where as Suzanne is a wealthy, stuck-up, superficial former Georgia Beauty Queen. While they may sometimes hate one another they manage to open a design firm called Sugarbaker designs. The by the books designer Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts) and the na've office manager Charlene Frazier Stillfield (Jean Smart) are the other financial backers of the firm. Anthony Bouvier (Meshach Taylor) is a 'wrongly' accused felon who is the one and only employee of the company. Nevertheless, the comedy sitcom hit home with its slapstick and often witty comedy paired with its featured discussions about controversial topics like homophobia, racism, AIDS, and domestic abuse. MORE