As of July 2026, Designing Women Season 4 aired in 1989 with 28 episodes — streaming now on Hulu. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Designing Women Season 4

1989 28 Episodes Comedy ⭐ 7/10

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Designing Women Season 4 is available on and right now. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. 37 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Delta Burke is the obvious draw, but the whole ensemble earns its laughs. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Designing Women Season 4 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. The jokes in Designing Women Season 4 land because the characters underneath them are worth caring about. Season 4 of Designing Women includes 28 episodes. It aired from September 1989 to May 1990. This season stars Delta Burke, Dixie Carter and Annie Potts. Delta Burke and Dixie Carter lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1989. What keeps Designing Women Season 4 from feeling disposable is a cast that clearly understands the material better than the format usually demands. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

For viewers who want something light without wanting something stupid, Designing Women Season 4 respects your intelligence. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Delta Burke anchors an ensemble with real chemistry. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.

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🎬 Designing Women Season 4 — Episode Guide

E1
The Proxy Pig and Great Pretenders
1989-09-18
Mary Jo uses the mansion she's decorating to entertain, and Anthony suffers when his health insurance lapses and Suzanne must nurse his injured back.
E2
One Night With You
1989-09-25
A terminally-ill high school classmate's last wish is to spend one night with the girl of his dreams -- Julia. The catch is, she doesn't remember him at all.
E3
There She Is
1989-10-02
While preparing for Charlene's baby shower, the Sugarbakers women are surprised by a visit from the Director of Pageants for Miss Georgia. Due to a clerical error discovered in the 1975 balloting, Suzanne must relinquish the crown she won 15 years earlier.
E4
Nightmare From Hee Haw
1989-10-16
The Sugerbaker women and their mates take a canoe trip in the Georgia backwoods -- which turns into a nightmare when them encounter some good ole boys.
E5
The Girlfriend
1989-10-23
Attempting to prove himself when Mary Jo hires him and some of his ex-convict friends to finish an incomplete remodeling job, Anthony gets a new girlfriend -- an ambitious young woman who sees him as an upwardly mobile vehicle.
E6
The Rowdy Girls
1989-10-30
While she is helping the Sugarbakers women choreograph a Supremes lip-synch routine, Charlene's favorite cousin inadvertently reveals that she is a victim of domestic violence.
E7
Bernice's Sanity Hearing
1989-11-13
The Sugarbaker women testify for Bernice when her niece Phyllis attempts to have her declared legally incompetent because she sings Bobbie Gentry songs to strangers on the street and introduces Anthony as her illegitimate son.
E8
Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence
1989-11-20
While posing for a gag photo at the governor's mansion, Julia gets her head stuck in the banister just before the annual ball.
E9
Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure
1989-11-27
Julia and Suzanne's plans go awry when they travel to Japan to visit their mother: after discovering that she has gone to Paris to see a sick friend, they are robbed of their luggage and money. Meanwhile, Anthony and Mary Jo are stuck with an enormous telephone bill after calling in votes to a telev...
E10
Manhunt
1989-12-04
Desperately single Mary Jo, worried that her busy schedule will condemn her to a life alone, accepts coaching from Suzanne as she plans a weekend manhunt.
E11
They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?
1989-12-11
Fat as a feminist issue surfaces when Suzanne endures cruel jokes about her weight at her high-school reunion; Anthony enlists Julia and Mary Jo to join him in a two-day fast to focus attention on world hunger.
E12
You Got to Have Friends
1989-12-18
Mary Jo takes a second job at a fast food place when Ted's child support payment is late.
E13
The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (1)
1990-01-01
Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to deliver the first New Year's baby. Dolly Parton plays Charlene's ""guardian movie star,"" who comes to her in a dream with news of her baby's birth, and Bernice goes for an unexpect...
E14
The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (2)
1990-01-01
Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to deliver the first New Year's baby. Dolly Parton plays Charlene's ""guardian movie star,"" who comes to her in a dream with news of her baby's birth, and Bernice goes for an unexpect...
E15
The Mistress
1990-01-08
The ladies are hired by wealthy stockbroker Ancel Pollard to decorate a house for a client's wife -- and a condo for his mistress. Suzanne is sure that straight laced Julia and Mary Jo will never go through with the assignment.
E16
The Fur Flies
1990-01-15
The fur flies at a fashion show, where Suzanne's after-dinner mink causes a riot among animal-rights activists. Meanwhile, Charlene is forced to bring Olivia to Sugarbakers while she looks for a nanny.
E17
Oh, What a Feeling
1990-01-29
Julia and Suzanne negotiate for a new delivery van and drive a hard bargain with an overbearing salesman (Ross).
E18
Anthony and Vanessa
1990-02-05
Hired for a temporary job at Sugarbakers, Anthony's needy friend Vanessa learns the tricks of the trade from Suzanne, then goes to work reeling in Anthony.
E19
Payne Grows Up
1990-02-19
Julia is not pleased to learn that Payne is graduating early in order to marry his pregnant girlfriend. Upset at becoming a grandmother so soon, Julia gets tipsy at the wedding, then wakes up mortified -- and scantily clad -- the next day with Payne's frat house roommate (Young).
E20
Tornado Watch
1990-02-26
A bizarre collection of characters is trapped inside Sugarbakers by a tornado warning, including hillbilly Daddy Jones who takes a liking to Bernice.

🎭 Cast of Designing Women Season 4

Delta Burke
Delta Burke
Suzanne Sugarbaker
Dixie Carter
Dixie Carter
Julia Sugarbaker
Annie Potts
Annie Potts
Mary Jo Shively
Jean Smart
Jean Smart
Charlene Frazier Stillfield
Meshach Taylor
Meshach Taylor
Anthony Bouvier

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