Editing Designing Women (section)

==Premise==
Julia Sugarbaker ([[Dixie Carter]]) is an elegant, sophisticated, outspoken woman who is the co-founder and president of Sugarbaker & Associates, an interior design firm located in her own home in [[Atlanta]]. She is partnered with her younger sister, Suzanne ([[Delta Burke]]), an attractive, selfish, self-centered former Miss Georgia World, who invested her money but does not have an official position within the business. Naïve but sweet-natured Charlene Frazier ([[Jean Smart]]), who worked as a secretary for Julia's late husband, Hayden, also invested half of her savings at Sugarbaker's and works as office manager. Charlene's next-door neighbor and recently divorced best friend, Mary Jo Shively ([[Annie Potts]]), is the main interior designer of the firm and also a full partner.

Alongside the women, there is Anthony Bouvier ([[Meshach Taylor]]), an ex-convict who is hired as the company's deliveryman and later becomes a full partner. By late 1986, Julia and Suzanne's mother, Perky ([[Louise Latham]]), comes for a visit with her outrageous best friend Bernice Clifton ([[Alice Ghostley]]). Perky does not stay long and moves to Japan, leaving Bernice in Atlanta, where she begins to spend time with the others.

At the end of the fifth season, actress Delta Burke left the show after a much-publicized feud with the show's producers, so her character, Suzanne, moved to Japan to join her mother, Perky. Actress Jean Smart also left at the beginning of the sixth season after deciding she wanted to spend more time with her young child.

To handle Smart's departure, her character, Charlene, moved to [[England]] with her Air Force husband and their daughter. Julia and Suzanne's obnoxious cousin Allison ([[Julia Duffy]]) acquires Suzanne's share of the design firm and also rents her home. Charlene's sister Carlene ([[Jan Hooks]]) moves in with her. Carlene also begins working at Sugarbaker's, filling the office manager vacancy that older sister Charlene left behind.

Allison (Duffy) left after the sixth season. Texan widow Bonnie Jean Poteet ([[Judith Ivey]]), was written in for season seven. These changes failed to hold the attention of viewers who enjoyed the original cast of the first five seasons. ''Designing Women'' was cancelled after the seventh season.