Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.


Designing Women (1986)
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Dixie Carter
Julia Sugarbaker (163 episodes)

Annie Potts
Mary Jo Shively (163 episodes)

Meshach Taylor
Anthony Bouvier (163 episodes)

Jean Smart
Charlene Frazier Stillfield (120 episodes)

Delta Burke
Suzanne Sugarbaker (118 episodes)

Alice Ghostley
Bernice Clifton (47 episodes)

Jan Hooks
Carlene Frazier Dobber (45 episodes)

Julia Duffy
Allison Sugarbaker (23 episodes)

Judith Ivey
Bonnie Jean "B.J." Poteet (22 episodes)
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