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Do you remember this series!?
Have you seen these angles of this house!?

“Designing Women” is a situation comedy created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, originally airing on CBS, 09/29/1986 – 05/24/1993, through 7 seasons & 163 episodes. Based in Atlanta GA, the series revolved around Sugarbaker & Associates, an interior designing firm. Interestingly, the house (in the above collage) which served as the home of the business & its owner, isn’t even in Georgia; it is a home in the Quapaw Quarter district of Little Rock AR. The Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, in the same area, serves as the home of another character. Both homes are on the National Register Of Historic Places.

The series debuted in CBS’ Monday night lineup, but the network moved it around quite a bit that 1st season, including Sunday & Thursday nights, as well as Saturday opposite the immensely popular “Golden Girls”, to the point ratings suffered & CBS put it on hiatus. Ready to cancel the show, a viewer campaign started & CBS returned the show to Monday nights. Airing back-to-back with “Murphy Brown” [featured in the 06/23/2015 “Tuesday TV”, seen via THIS LINK HERE], the series became a successful show for CBS, helping the network come out of a ratings slump in the late 1980s. But, in the fall of 1992, shortly after well-publicized behind-the-scenes issues, CBS moved it to the “death slot” on Friday night & canceled it that next May, 1993. Ironically, the final episode, a 1-hour special, aired on Monday night.

The main cast includes Dixie Carter as “Julia Sugarbaker” (Carter didn’t agree with many of Julia’s liberal rants), Delta Burke as “Suzanne Sugarbaker”, Julia’s sister (Burke & Carter had previously starred in CBS’ “Filthy Rich”), Annie Potts as “Mary Jo Shively”, Jean Smart as “Charlene Frazier-Stillfield” (Potts & Smart had previously guest-starred in the same 1985 episode of ABC’s “Lime Street”), Meshach Taylor as “Anthony Bouvier”, Julia Duffy as “Allison Sugarbaker” (replacing Burke for Season 6), Jan Hooks as “Carlene Frazier-Dobber” (replacing Smart for Seasons 6-7) & Judith Ivey as “Bonnie Jean Poteet” (replacing Duffy for Season 7). The most-memorable recurring character was Alice Ghostley’s “Bernice Clifton”, an absent-minded friend of Julia & Suzanne’s mother, Perky. Interestingly, Ghostley is best-known for her role as “Esmerelda” on “Bewitched”, but she portrayed “Bernice” more. Other recurring characters were portrayed by Hal Holbrook, Richard Gilliland, Scott Bakula, George Newbern, Priscilla Weems, Brian Lando, Douglas Barr, Gerald McRaney, Olivia Brown & Sheryl Lee Ralph. Guest stars include Dolly Parton, Tony Goldwyn, Dale Raoul, Jackee Harry, Mary Ann Mobley, Sherman Hemsley, Della Reese, Kim Zimmer, Marla Maples, Wendie Jo Sperber, Louise Latham, Mariann Aalda, Leanne Hunley & Lloyd Bochner.

For bonus videos, including 1 media should heed….
1 staple of the show & fan favorite was Julia’s “rants”. 2 of the more-popular ones are in “Killing All The Right People” & “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”:

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