Designing Women Season 2, Episode 9: I'll Be Seeing You

1

101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station

A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.

30 min

2

Ted Remarries

Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.

30 min

3

Anthony, Jr.

Anthony 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.

30 min

4

Killing All the Right People

"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.

30 min

5

Half an Air Bubble Off

When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.

30 min

6

Dash Goff, the Writer

Suzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.

30 min

7

Heart Attacks

Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.

30 min

8

Cruising

Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.

30 min

9

I'll Be Seeing You

Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.

30 min

10

Stranded

While 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.

30 min

11

Howard the Date

It'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.""

30 min

12

I'll Be Home For Christmas

Charlene 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.

30 min

13

Great Expectations

Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.

30 min

14

Second Time Around

Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.

30 min

15

Oh, Brother

Julia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with aspirations to stand-up comedy.

30 min

16

There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner

Mary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.

30 min

17

The Return of Ray Don

A 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.

30 min

18

High Rollers

After 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.

30 min

19

The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club

Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by laws.

30 min

20

How Great Thou Art

Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.

30 min

21

Ted-Bare

On 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.

30 min

22

Reservations for Eight

A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.

30 min