It s comedy with lots of style in this hilarious series about four Southern beauties running a design studio in Atlanta Georgia. There s opinionated diva Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter) her former beauty queen sister Suzanne (Emmy nominee Delta Burke) divorced mother of two Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts) and sweet Charlene Stillfield (Jean Smart).EPISODESPilot: After Suzanne s gynecologist retires she makes an appointment with Mary Jo s ex-husband and winds up dating him.Killing All the Right People: Sugarbaker & Associates get hired for the project of a lifetime but it s not exactly cause for celebration.Reservations for Eight: A weekend ski trip goes downhill fast when an avalanche forces the women and their beaus to stay in their cabin.Big Haas and Little Falsie: Mary Jo finds out she has inherited $3000 and must spend it on something frivolous but there s only one thing she really wants: breast implants.They Shoot Fat Women Don t They?: When Suzanne attends her class reunion she must confront the issue of her weight gain.System Requirements:Running Time: 119 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396012165 Manufacturer No: 01216
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For a while, Designing Women captured some of the spirit of Hollywood's silkiest and smartest, Golden Age sophistication. Debuting in the fall of 1986, this half-hour sitcom--about four Atlanta belles who either owned or worked for an upscale interior design firm--seamlessly blended an understated glamour with razor-sharp dialogue, polished Southern grace, and a ripened female perspective--a sort of perfumed but unequivocal feminism for college-educated women over 30. The core cast of stage and film veterans--Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, and Jean Smart--was unusually strong, and their characters' problems and conflicts were unique to adulthood rather than the protracted adolescence common among today's comedies. The five episodes on this disc represent some of the show's strongest material, including season two's "Killing All the Right People," which--for its time--was bold in introducing a character dying of AIDS complications. Also quite witty is "Reservations for Eight," in which the Georgia quartet and their lovers bicker over gender stereotypes. --Tom Keogh
