Season 2
22 episodes · Sep 14, 1987
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S2E1101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
Sep 14, 198730mA scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.
S2E2Ted Remarries
Sep 21, 198730mMary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.
S2E3Anthony, Jr.
Sep 28, 198730mAnthony 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.
S2E4Killing All the Right People
Oct 5, 198730m"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.
S2E5Half an Air Bubble Off
Oct 19, 198730mWhen an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.
S2E6Dash Goff, the Writer
Oct 26, 198730mSuzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.
S2E7Heart Attacks
Nov 9, 198730mReese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.
S2E8Cruising
Nov 16, 198730mSuzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.
S2E9I'll Be Seeing You
Nov 23, 198730mCharlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.
S2E10Stranded
Dec 7, 198730mWhile Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.
S2E11Howard the Date
Dec 14, 198730mIt'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.""
S2E12I'll Be Home For Christmas
Dec 21, 198730mCharlene 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.
S2E13Great Expectations
Jan 4, 198830mAnthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.
S2E14Second Time Around
Jan 11, 198830mCharlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.
S2E15Oh, Brother
Jan 18, 198830mJulia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with aspirations to stand-up comedy.
S2E16There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
Jan 25, 198830mMary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.
S2E17The Return of Ray Don
Feb 1, 198830mA 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.
S2E18High Rollers
Feb 8, 198830mAfter 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.
S2E19The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club
Feb 15, 198830mSuzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by laws.
S2E20How Great Thou Art
Feb 22, 198830mScruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.
S2E21Ted-Bare
Mar 21, 198830mOn the brink of marrying a young woman, Ted begins to appreciate ex-wife Mary Jo's maturity, but his sudden attentiveness strikes everyone else as suspicious.
S2E22Reservations for Eight
Mar 28, 198830mA romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.