Designing Women (1986)
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This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Dixie Carter
Julia Sugarbaker
Delta Burke
Suzanne Sugarbaker
Annie Potts
Mary Jo Shively
Julia Duffy
Allison Sugarbaker
Jean Smart
Charlene Frazier Stillfield
Judith Ivey
Bonnie Jean 'B.J.' Poteet
Jan Hooks
Carlene Frazier Dobber
Meshach Taylor
Anthony Bouvier
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Creator / Executive Producer / Writer
Tommy Thompson
Producer
Pamela Norris
Producer
Douglas Jackson
Producer
Brian Lando
Quinton Shively
David Trainer
Producer / Director
Harry Thomason
Executive Producer / Director
David Steinberg
Director / Writer
Jack Shea
Director
Barnet Kellman
Director
Matthew Diamond
Director
Dwayne Hickman
Director
William Crain
Director
Asaad Kelada
Director
Arlene Sanford
Director
Norma Safford Vela
Writer
Michael Ross
Writer
Mimi Pond
Writer
Ronnie Claire Edwards
Ione Frazier
Connie Lew
Li Sing
Lewis Grizzard
Clayton Sugarbaker
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton, Guardian Movie Star
Jordan Bradley
Donnie
Julie Cobb
Janet Shackleford
Scott Bakula
Ted Shively
Bobbie Ferguson
Monette Marlin
Geoffrey Lewis
Dr. Davis Jackson
Gregg Henry
Jack Dent
Louise Latham
Perky Sugarbaker
Hal Holbrook
Reese Watson / Director
Arlen Dean Snyder
Ray Don Simpson
Gerald McRaney
Dash Goff
M.C. Gainey
T. Tommy Reed / Junior Jones
Anne Haney
Aunt Phoebe Stillfield
Olivia Brown
Vanessa Hargraves
Priscilla Weems
Claudia Shively
Richard Gilliland
J.D. Shackleford
Douglas Barr
Colonel Bill Stillfield
Lexi Randall
Randa Oliver
Michael Goldfinger
Rusty
George Newbern
Payne McIlroy
Ray McKinnon
Dwayne Dobber
Patrick Warburton
Craig Coleman
Della Reese
Mrs. Toussant
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Etienne Toussant Bouvier
Alice Ghostley
Bernice Clifton
Alan K. Simpson
Self (uncredited)
Jason Bernard
Wilson Brickett
Peter White
Newscaster
Macon McCalman
Paul Webster
Lynne Marta
OB Nurse
Christian Clemenson
Sandahl Bergman
Kristoffer Tabori
Mary Ann Mobley
Frances E. Williams
Bruce Davison
Karen Kopins
Ritch Shydner
Rex Young
Constance Towers
Bill Morey
Leslie Ackerman
Ray Buktenica
Wendie Jo Sperber
Benay Venuta
John Dewey Carter
Charles Pierce
Tino Insana
Olivia Burnette
Walter Olkewicz
Adam Carl
Ian Patrick Williams
Richard Sanders
Marc Silver
Gail O'Grady
Ron Glass
Peri Gilpin
Marius Weyers
Jodi Long
Gary Morris
Patrick Mickler
Gretchen Wyler
Jackie Joseph
William Morgan Sheppard
Blake Clark
Marla Maples
Rebecca Balding
Nedra Volz
Patrick Tovatt
Pamela Bowen
Tracey Walter
Jason Gourson
Warren Burton
Monika Schnarre
Bill Cobbs
Carmen Argenziano
James Karen
Charles Levin
Janet Carroll
Pat Carroll
Collin Bernsen
Mary Dixie Carter
Lloyd Bochner
Shavar Ross
Dub Taylor
Brandis Kemp
Madison Mason
Stephen Tobolowsky
Elliott Reid
Kim Hamilton
David Downing
Eileen Seeley
Jonathan Banks
Thomas Callaway
Natalija Nogulich
Barry Corbin
Sherman Hemsley
Tony Goldwyn
Kim Zimmer
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 29, 1986
StatusEnded
Seasons7
Episodes163
Running Time30m
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
Wiki.
Designing Women is an American television sitcom created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason that aired on CBS from September 29, 1986, to May 24, 1993, producing seven seasons and 163 episodes. It was a joint production of Bloodworth/Thomason Mozark Productions in association with Columbia Pictures Television for CBS.
The series centers on the lives of four women and one man working together at an interior design firm in 1980s Atlanta, Georgia, called Sugarbaker & Associates. It originally starred Dixie Carter as Julia Sugarbaker, president of the design firm; Delta Burke as Suzanne Sugarbaker, the design firm's silent partner and Julia's ex-beauty queen sister; Annie Potts as head designer Mary Jo Shively; and Jean Smart as office manager Charlene Frazier. In the third season, Meshach Taylor was given a starring role for his previously recurring character of delivery man and later partner Anthony Bouvier. Later in its run, the series gained notoriety for its well-publicized behind-the-scenes conflicts and cast changes. Julia Duffy and Jan Hooks replaced Burke and Smart for season six, but Duffy was not brought back for the seventh and final season, and she was replaced by Judith Ivey.