Perky does not stay long and moves to Japan, leaving Bernice in Atlanta, where she begins to spend time with the others. By late 1986, Julia and Suzanne's mother, Perky ( Louise Latham), comes for a visit with her outrageous best friend Bernice Clifton ( Alice Ghostley).
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Charlene's next-door neighbor and recently divorced best friend, Mary Jo Shively ( Annie Potts), is the main interior designer of the firm and also a full partner.Īlongside the women, there is Anthony Bouvier ( Meshach Taylor), an ex-convict who is hired as the company's deliveryman and later becomes a full partner. Naïve but sweet-natured Charlene Frazier ( Jean Smart), who worked as a secretary for Julia's late husband, Hayden, also invested half of her savings at Sugarbaker's and works as office manager. She is partnered with her younger sister, Suzanne ( Delta Burke), an attractive, selfish, self-centered former Miss Georgia World, who invested her money but does not have an official position within the business. Julia Sugarbaker ( Dixie Carter) is an elegant, sophisticated, outspoken liberal who is the co-founder and president of Sugarbaker & Associates, an interior design firm located in her own home in Atlanta. 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.
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Later in its run, the series gained notoriety for its well-publicized behind-the-scenes conflicts and cast changes. In the third season, Meshach Taylor was given a starring role for his previously recurring character of delivery man and later partner Anthony Bouvier.
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. The series centers on the lives of four women and one man working together at an interior designing firm in 1980s Atlanta, Georgia, called Sugarbaker & Associates. It was a joint production of Bloodworth/Thomason Mozark Productions in association with Columbia Pictures Television for CBS.
(Performed by Doc Severinsen, seasons 1–2)Ĭolumbia Pictures Television Distributionĭesigning 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.
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