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High Rollers
Designing Women - S2 - E18
After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise.
Designing Women: Season 2 - 22 Episode s
2x1 - 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
September 14, 1987
A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.
2x2 - Ted Remarries
September 21, 1987
Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.
2x3 - Anthony, Jr.
September 28, 1987
Anthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriends' wealthy parents, inventing a pedigreed family -- then an uninvited dinner guest informs him he is the father of her child.
2x4 - Killing All the Right People
October 5, 1987
"Killing All the Right People" is the 26th episode of the sitcom Designing Women. Originally airing on October 5, 1987, as the fourth episode of the second season, it features Tony Goldwyn as Kendall Dobbs, a young man dying of AIDS who asks the women to design his funeral. Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's mother died of AIDS and her experience with her mother's disease and the prejudice associated with it inspired the episode.
2x5 - Half an Air Bubble Off
October 19, 1987
When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.
2x6 - Dash Goff, the Writer
October 26, 1987
Suzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.
2x7 - Heart Attacks
November 9, 1987
Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.
2x8 - Cruising
November 16, 1987
Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.
2x9 - I'll Be Seeing You
November 23, 1987
Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.
2x10 - Stranded
December 7, 1987
While Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.
2x11 - Howard the Date
December 14, 1987
It's the mercy date from Hell when the female Sugarbakers staff accompany dateless Howard the nerd to his high-school reunion. Their sympathy quickly wears off when he begins to boast about handling his ""four women.""
2x12 - I'll Be Home For Christmas
December 21, 1987
Charlene and Anthony scheme to outsmart Mary Jo's disbelieving son on Christmas Eve -- until their hired Santa beats them to it, by swiping the Sugarbakers' Christmas gifts.
2x13 - Great Expectations
January 4, 1988
Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.
2x14 - Second Time Around
January 11, 1988
Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.
2x15 - Oh, Brother
January 18, 1988
Julia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with aspirations to stand-up comedy.
2x16 - There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
January 25, 1988
Mary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.
2x17 - The Return of Ray Don
February 1, 1988
A penniless Suzanne faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her possession and considers marriage to wealthy octogenarian Wilmont Oliver.
2x18 - High Rollers
February 8, 1988
After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise.
2x19 - The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club
February 15, 1988
Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by laws.
2x20 - How Great Thou Art
February 22, 1988
Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.
2x21 - Ted-Bare
March 21, 1988
On the brink of marrying a young woman, Ted begins to appreciate ex-wife Mary Jo's maturity, but his sudden attentiveness strikes everyone else as suspicious.
2x22 - Reservations for Eight
March 28, 1988
A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.