Designing Women Lifetime (TV network) Schedule December 16, 2002 January 1, 2003

December 16
Monday
8:00 am	Designing Women "It's Not So Easy Being Green" 	Anthony can't control his jealousy when Etienne's smart, successful and good-looking college friend, Punch, comes to visit. Starring: Annie Potts, Dixie Carter, Jan Hooks, Judith Ivey, Meshach Taylor, Alice Ghostley, Sheryl Lee Ralph   [CC]
December 16
Monday
8:00 am	Designing Women "It's Not So Easy Being Green" 	
	 	
December 16
Monday
8:30 am	Designing Women "The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers" 	Following instructions she received from her deceased husband during a seance, Mrs. Beecham, an overbearing old schoolmistress of Julia's, comes to live with her. Starring: Annie Potts, Dixie Carter, Jan Hooks, Judith Ivey, Meshach Taylor, Alice Ghostley   [CC]
December 16
Monday
8:30 am	Designing Women "The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers" 	
	 	
December 16
Monday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "The Proxy Pig and Great Pretenders"	Anthony sprains his entire body, only to discover when he arrives at the hospital that he was a day late on his insurance payment, and his policy has been canceled. Meanwhile, Mary Jo is trying to impress a rich high school friend by pretending she lives in the home of a wealthy client. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor, Ted Laplat, Ann Dunsenberry, Edmund L. Shaff, Barbara Beckley   [CC]
December 16
Monday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "The Proxy Pig and Great Pretenders"	
	 	
December 17
Tuesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "The Lying Game" 	When Carlene discovers she is dating a man who is a cross-dresser, she tries spending the day in male drag to understand what it's like. Starring: Annie Potts, Dixie Carter, Jan Hooks, Judith Ivey, Meshach Taylor, Alice Ghostley   [CC]
December 17
Tuesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "The Lying Game" 	
	 	
December 17
Tuesday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Designing Women" 	Suzanne visits a new gynecologist, Mary Jo's ex-husband Ted, and a maelstrom of emotions is unleashed when she announces she is dating him. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Scott Bakula, Arlen Dean Snyder   [CC]
December 17
Tuesday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Designing Women" 	
	 	
December 17
Tuesday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "One Night with You" 	Donald Gilman, a terminally ill classmate of Julia's, has one dying request -- he wants to spend one night with Julia. Unfortunately, Julia doesn't remember him. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor   [CC]
December 17
Tuesday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "One Night with You" 	
	 	
December 18
Wednesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "Gone with a Whim" 	While redecorating an antebellum mansion belonging to a businessman, Mary Jo complains about his wife's decision to completely modernize the house and destroy its grand character.   [CC]
December 18
Wednesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "Gone with a Whim" 	
	 	
December 18
Wednesday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "There She Is" 	While preparing for Charlene's baby shower, Julia, Mary Jo, and Charlene are surprised by a visit from the Director of Pageants for Miss Georgia U.S. The Director informs them that an error was discovered in the balloting for the 1975 pageant. As a result, Suzanne is not Miss Georgia U.S. 1975. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor, Alice Ghostley, Russell Anderson, Bobbie Ferguson, Erwin Fuller, Zoaunne Le Roy, Marji Martin, Ritchie Montgomery   [CC]
December 18
Wednesday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "There She Is" 	
	 	
December 19
Thursday
8:00 am	Designing Women "The Beauty Contest" 	Charlene sponsors Mary Jo's daughter in the Miss Pre-Teen Atlanta contest, and despite her depression over her own upcoming 30th birthday, Suzanne coaches Claudia on how to walk and smile. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Pamela Bowen, Priscilla Weems, Brian Lando, Virgina Bingham, Stacy Bloodworth, Brian Moore   [CC]
December 19
Thursday
8:00 am	Designing Women "The Beauty Contest" 	
	 	
December 19
Thursday
8:30 am	Designing Women "A Big Affair" 	Suzanne's intimate dinner party, planned to impress an important client, goes awry before it begins when she arranges a date between a rather large man and a reluctant Charlene. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Walter Olkewicz, David Winn   [CC]
December 19
Thursday
8:30 am	Designing Women "A Big Affair" 	
	 	
December 19
Thursday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "Nightmare from Hee Haw" 	On their annual trip into the Georgia countryside, the Sugarbaker women and their men have a run-in with a family of local Lotharios who take a fancy to the women. After a brawl in a restaurant, the men end up in the hospital, and Anthony is called upon to take care of the ladies. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Hal Holbrook, Meshach Taylor, Richard Gilliland, M.C. Gainey, Doug Barr, Dub Taylor, S.A. Griffin, Michael Morrison   [CC]
December 19
Thursday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "Nightmare from Hee Haw" 	
	 	
December 20
Friday
8:00 am	Designing Women "Design House" 	Since Suzanne has money invested in Sugarbaker's and is tired of her image as a front bimbo for the firm, Julia assigns her to do their next decorating project. Unfortunately, the house burns to the ground while Suzanne is working on it. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Stephen Tobolowsky   [CC]
December 20
Friday
8:00 am	Designing Women "Design House" 	
	 	
December 20
Friday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Mary Jo's First Date" 	Concerned that Mary Jo hasn't dated since she and Ted broke up, Suzanne arranges a blind date for her with an old acquaintance. Meanwhile, Julia struggles through an I.R.S. audit conducted by the same man who tried to pick up the women at a restaurant and suffered a tongue lashing from Julia. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Arlen Dean Snyder, Richard Gilliland   [CC]
December 20
Friday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Mary Jo's First Date" 	
	 	
December 20
Friday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "The Girlfriend" 	A contractor hired by Sugarbaker's to remodel a client's kitchen is fired for not completing the work on time, and, left with an unfinished kitchen, the women agree to allow Anthony and his ex-convict friends to finish the job. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor, Robert Ridgely, Mariann Aalda, Charles Levin   [CC]
December 20
Friday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "The Girlfriend" 	
	 	
December 23
Monday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "I'll Be Home for Christmas" 	A hired Santa steals all the gifts under the Christmas tree at Sugarbaker's. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor, Priscilla Weems, Brian Lando, George Newbern, John Apicella   [CC]
December 23
Monday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "I'll Be Home for Christmas" 	
	 	
December 24
Tuesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "The IT Men" 	When her boyfriend Mason takes a job in Japan, Charlene finds she has "chemistry" with a man who happens to be married to one of the Sugarbaker clients. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Madison Mason, Rodney Stone   [CC]
December 24
Tuesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "The IT Men" 	
	 	
December 24
Tuesday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Tales Out of School" 	When Anthony realizes that his unfriendly law professor seems to like Carlene, he enlists her help to score points with him. Starring: Annie Potts, Dixie Carter, Jan Hooks, Julia Duffy, Meshach Taylor, Alice Ghostley   [CC]
December 24
Tuesday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Tales Out of School" 	
	 	
December 24
Tuesday
2:00 am	Designing Women "Tales Out of School" 	When Anthony realizes that his unfriendly law professor seems to like Carlene, he enlists her help to score points with him. Starring: Annie Potts, Dixie Carter, Jan Hooks, Julia Duffy, Meshach Taylor, Alice Ghostley   [CC]
December 24
Tuesday
2:00 am	Designing Women "Tales Out of School" 	
	 	
December 25
Wednesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "I'll Be Home for Christmas" 	A hired Santa steals all the gifts under the Christmas tree at Sugarbaker's. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor, Priscilla Weems, Brian Lando, George Newbern, John Apicella   [CC]
December 25
Wednesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "I'll Be Home for Christmas" 	
	 	
December 26
Thursday
8:00 am	Designing Women "The Slumber Party" 	Arriving at work one morning, Suzanne tells Julia, Mary Jo, and Charlene that when she tried to fire her maid, the maid put a voodoo death curse on her and proclaimed that Suzanne would be gone by midnight. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter   [CC]
December 26
Thursday
8:00 am	Designing Women "The Slumber Party" 	
	 	
December 26
Thursday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Monette" 	When an old school chum of Charlene's buys the old Chadwick mansion and asks Sugarbaker's to redecorate, the women are excited at the prospect of a most lucrative assignment -- until they have to face a moral dilemma. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor, Bobbie Ferguson   [CC]
December 26
Thursday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Monette" 	
	 	
December 26
Thursday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "Bernice's Sanity Hearing" 	When Bernice's niece, Phyllis, comes to Atlanta, she complains about her aunt's constant habit of singing Bobbie Gentry songs to strangers on the street. Phyllis plans to have Bernice declared mentally incompetent, but the Sugarbaker women come to Bernice's aid. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor, Alice Ghostley   [CC]
December 26
Thursday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "Bernice's Sanity Hearing" 	
	 	
December 27
Friday
8:00 am	Designing Women "Old Spouses Never Die" 	Mary Jo is brooding about her ex-husband's interference in her life, while Charlene distrusts her doctor's cavalier attitude toward the lump he found in her breast.   [CC]
December 27
Friday
8:00 am	Designing Women "Old Spouses Never Die" 	
	 	
December 27
Friday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "New Year's Daze" 	It is New Year's Eve, and everyone is dressed in their finest clothes, anticipating a fun-filled night on the town. The identity of Charlene's date is kept secret until a news flash reports that the infamous "Shadow" is the subject of a massive manhunt. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Thomas Callaway, Russell Anderson   [CC]
December 27
Friday
5:30 pm	Designing Women "New Year's Daze" 	
	 	
December 30
Monday
8:00 am	Designing Women "And Justice for Paul" 	When Suzanne picks up a client who wants period furniture on a shoestring budget, the Sugarbaker women find that antique furniture at bargain prices is no bargain. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, D. David Morin   [CC]
December 30
Monday
8:00 am	Designing Women "And Justice for Paul" 	
	 	
December 30
Monday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Oh, Suzannah" 	While in Reese's office to sign legal papers, Suzanne offhandedly volunteers to keep a Vietnamese boat child who is being adopted, but needs an interim home for the next four weeks while final papers are being completed. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor, Michael Griswold, Justine Burnette, Connie Lew, Ann Walker, Richard Jamison   [CC]
December 30
Monday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Oh, Suzannah" 	
	 	
December 31
Tuesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene" 	When Mary Jo's divorced father arrives in Atlanta for a four-day visit and dances cheek to cheek with Charlene, Mary Jo becomes very protective. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor, Richard Gilliland, Geoffrey Lewis   [CC]
December 31
Tuesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene" 	
	 	
December 31
Tuesday
8:30 am	Designing Women "New Year's Daze" 	It is New Year's Eve, and everyone is dressed in their finest clothes, anticipating a fun-filled night on the town. The identity of Charlene's date is kept secret until a news flash reports that the infamous "Shadow" is the subject of a massive manhunt. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Thomas Callaway, Russell Anderson   [CC]
December 31
Tuesday
8:30 am	Designing Women "New Year's Daze" 	
	 	
January 1
Wednesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "Reese's Friend" 	A disagreement over the theme for the annual country club fundraiser has Julia and Suzanne at odds, but the quibbling is forgotten when Reese appears with a gorgeous young woman on his arm. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Hal Holbrook, Meshach Taylor, Richard Gilliland, Lisa Puluso, Michael Griswold, Brian Taylor   [CC]
January 1
Wednesday
8:00 am	Designing Women "Reese's Friend" 	
	 	
January 1
Wednesday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Fore!" 	Anthony accepts an invitation to join one of Atlanta's most exclusive -- and all white -- country clubs, leaving Suzanne green with envy. Starring: Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Meshach Taylor, Alice Ghostley, Gracie Harrison, Mark Neely, Lexi Randall, Rena Craig, Jay Bell   [CC]
January 1
Wednesday
8:30 am	Designing Women "Fore!"