TJ
06-15-2012, 12:52 AM
All good things come to an end, and the end of the 1991-1992 season marked the end for many of our favorite TV series which began in the mid '80s. At the end of the 1992 season, we said farewell to sitcoms like Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, Who's the Boss?, Night Court, and The Golden Girls. But there were a few lucky series which managed to squeeze out just one more season after that, and Designing Women did just that... albeit with a slight retooling of the series (the second one to happen in a span of just a little over a year).
Already gone by the beginning of the previous season were the familiar characters of Suzanne (Delta Burke) and Charlene (Jean Smart). They were replaced with Charlene's sister Carlene (Jan Hooks) and Suzanne and Julia's cousin Allison (Julia Duffy). The series reached an all-time high in the ratings during that season, but the rumor has it that everybody hated the obnoxiousness of Julia Duffy's character of Allison. So, at the end of the season, her character is written off, and in comes the seventh--and final--season of the series where Judith Ivey joins the cast as B.J. Poteet. B.J., however, was not simply a "new version" of Suzanne as Allison was. Instead, B.J. was a wealthy Texas widow who was friendly, intelligent, and also outspoken... the first character on the series to be a true match for Julia.
The rest of the cast, of course, returns just as we remember them, including Julia (Dixie Carter), Mary Jo (Annie Potts), Carlene (Jan Hooks), Anthony (Meshach Taylor), and more than ever before, Bernice (Alice Ghostley). These episodes, which mark the end of the series (for good), bring us the last sagas and adventures of the ladies (including Anthony) of Sugarbaker's.
Read our review by skees53 here:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/designingwomenseason7dvdreview.html
Please post any questions or comments about this set.
Already gone by the beginning of the previous season were the familiar characters of Suzanne (Delta Burke) and Charlene (Jean Smart). They were replaced with Charlene's sister Carlene (Jan Hooks) and Suzanne and Julia's cousin Allison (Julia Duffy). The series reached an all-time high in the ratings during that season, but the rumor has it that everybody hated the obnoxiousness of Julia Duffy's character of Allison. So, at the end of the season, her character is written off, and in comes the seventh--and final--season of the series where Judith Ivey joins the cast as B.J. Poteet. B.J., however, was not simply a "new version" of Suzanne as Allison was. Instead, B.J. was a wealthy Texas widow who was friendly, intelligent, and also outspoken... the first character on the series to be a true match for Julia.
The rest of the cast, of course, returns just as we remember them, including Julia (Dixie Carter), Mary Jo (Annie Potts), Carlene (Jan Hooks), Anthony (Meshach Taylor), and more than ever before, Bernice (Alice Ghostley). These episodes, which mark the end of the series (for good), bring us the last sagas and adventures of the ladies (including Anthony) of Sugarbaker's.
Read our review by skees53 here:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/designingwomenseason7dvdreview.html
Please post any questions or comments about this set.