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Status
Ended
Release
1986 - 1993
Seasons / Eps
7 / 163
Streaming availability by country
"Designed to keep you laughing!"
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.
142 Cast Members
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
Richard Gilliland
J.D. Shackleford
14 Episodes
Douglas Barr
Colonel Bill Stillfield
13 Episodes
Priscilla Weems
Claudia Shively
10 Episodes
Brian Lando
Quinton Shively
9 Episodes
Hal Holbrook
Reese Watson
7 Episodes
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Etienne Toussant Bouvier
7 Episodes
Michael Goldfinger
Rusty
6 Episodes
Scott Bakula
Ted Shively
5 Episodes
Olivia Brown
Vanessa Hargraves
5 Episodes
Lexi Randall
Randa Oliver
5 Episodes
George Newbern
Payne McIlroy
4 Episodes
