Season Five

Mary Jo is reminded of a promise to marry a platonic friend if they are both still single at 35. Julia discovers that the Sugarbakers house was built on the foundation of a Civil War home and has it added to the tour of Historical Homes --- until the tour takes over her home.

Guest cast: Mary Ann Mobley (Karen Delaporte), Kristoffer Tabori (Daryl Morton), James Keane (loud tourist), Michele Buffone (whining tourist), Armand Asselin (tourist with soda), Frank DiElsi (smoking tourist)

The ladies make plans to surprise Anthony on his 30th birthday by finding his long lost father who abandoned him --- while Bernice hires him a male stripper.

Guest cast: Alice Ghostley (Bernice Clifton), Bill Cobbs (Henry Wilson/Charlie Munroe), Tom Magee (Beefma)

Sugarbakers is forced to deal with the insufferable little girl of their latest client. Meanwhile, Mary Jo resents Charlene's decision to quit working to devote more time to her baby daughter.

Guest cast: Lexi Randall (Randa Oliver), Adam Carl (Adam)

Julia is forced to serve on a slow-moving sequestered jury --- putting a crimp in her plans to have dinner with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife. Charlene wins a radio contest and takes Suzanne with her on a shopping spree in a record store.

Guest cast: Jessie Jones (Marshal), John O'Connell (DJ), Ellen Albertini Dow (Tight Lips), Kathryn Spitz (Janice)

Anthony agrees to be auctioned-off at a charity bachelor auction with Suzanne's coaching. But disappointed in the amount of money offered for him, Suzanne accidentally makes the winning bid for him and is uncomfortable with the two of them spending an evening alone.

Guest cast: Rena Craig (lady MC), Donna Lynn Leavy (Lenore), Tom Marvich (cowboy), Kathy Connell (woman with clipboard), Joan Pirkle (woman #1), Gyl Roland (woman #2)

Charlene asks to be treated like any other client when she has the firm decorate her new haunted house, but things get out of hand when she becomes a difficult, demanding customer.

Guest cast: Charles Levin (Marvin Sheinberg), Michael Goldfinger (Rusty)

Mary Jo harbors her old school teacher when she sneaks away from the nursing home. Meanwhile, Suzanne has a wig made for Olivia when Charlene tries to break her baby into show business.

Guest cast: Meg Wyllie (Miss Crown), Dona Hardy (Mrs. Chesley), Lorna Scott (nurse)

Interested in stirring up some endorphins and making her life less monotonous, Mary Jo convinces Julia to take up jogging with her, not expecting Julia to become obsessed with it and start neglecting the business.

Guest cast: Sandahl Bergman (Davida Daniels)

Suzanne has trouble relating to Anthony now that he's become a partner in Sugarbakers, and --- much to everyone's surprise --- Charlene is accepted part-time into a prestigious university and must fend off the advances of her amorous professor.

Guest cast: Richard Sanders (Dr. Elliot Newhouse), Michelle Buffone (Ms. Gardner), Daniel Henning (Gordon), Susan Byun (Kathy), Kenneth Armstrong (student), Adam Goldberg (Oreo man)

Having trouble dealing with Bill being shipped out, Charlene joins a support group and meets a gentleman --- also named Bill --- who is dealing with his wife being overseas also.

Guest cast: Peter Crook (Bill), Robert Moran (soldier #1), Jerry Giles (soldier #2), Douglas Barr (Colonel Bill Stillfield)

Mary Jo faces a dilemma when her daughter brings home a much older date whom she herself is attracted to. Julia causes a scandal at a football game when --- tired of waiting in line for the ladies room --- she leads a rush of ladies in to use the men's room.

Guest cast: Tom Isbell (Jack), Priscilla Weems (Claudia Shively), David James Alexander (man #1), Carl Beard (man #2), Michael B. Silver (Mark)

A master womanizer pursues Mary Jo- then dumps her. Meanwhile, Bernice gets a cable access TV show and implies that Julia is the Madame of Sugarbakers and that the ladies are "working girls."

Guest cast: Alice Ghostley (Bernice Clifton), Collin Bernsen (Donald Banks), Rebecca Balding (Melinda), Lois Hamilton (Susan), Tara Karsian (Ross), Jerry M. Hawkins (Phil), Lisa Long (Nancy)

As a practical joke to prove a point, Mary Jo switches Suzanne's expensive pearl strand for her own $30 one --- but becomes terrified when she loses it. Meanwhile, Anthony has a recurring dream where Julia tries to seduce him --- making Charlene suspect that he has the hots for Julia, and Suzanne tries out as a lifestyles reporter for the local news with a report on fashion for dogs.

Guest cast: Elliot Harold (Harley)

As Sugarbakers deals with a renegade mouse, Anthony is forced to contend with a big burly bully in the laundry room of his apartment building.

Guest cast: Dennis Burkley (Billy Boy Swine), Christina Rich (Pary Girl)

The ladies begin to suspect that Julia is living a double life --- but not expecting it's as a lounge singer, while Anthony tries to get up the nerve to approach a beautiful salesgirl at the bookstore.

Guest cast: Patricia Ayame Thomson (May), Bill Shick (Gary), David Heisey (Max), Hartley Silver (Sam)

After Bernice has some cosmetic surgery, the ladies try to find a delicate way to break it to her about her new snout. Meanwhile, Suzanne decides to trade her Mercedes in for a Cadillac.

Guest cast: Alice Ghostley (Bernice Clifton), Kerry Leigh Michaels (saleswoman), Julie Ann Nesbitt (mother), Brady Bluhm (boy)

Though she's single and currently uninvolved, Mary Jo decides it's time for her to have another baby and tries to convince the visiting J. D. to help her out with a "donation." Suzanne takes up smoking to lose weight.

Guest cast: Richard Gilliland (J. D. Shackleford)

The ladies attend a contemporary art exhibit opening where Julia becomes an instant sensation when her purse is mistaken for an exhibit piece. Meanwhile, Mary Jo tries to find a cheap way to fix Charlene's car after she dings it, and Suzanne accidentally glues her lips together while trying to fix her fingernail.

Guest cast: Claudette Nevins (Roseland), Janice Kent (Mrs. Fredhold), Terry Burns (Mr. Fredhold), Mike Regan (gentleman #2), Joann B. Martin (delighted patron), Katherine Blackmon (fruit bowl looker), Sprague Theobald (gentleman #1), Jon Huffman (guard)

While in New Orleans for Design Expo, Mary Jo gives in to a long standing flirtation with a gentleman acquaintance and is devastated to later discover he is married.

Guest cast: Darrell Larson (Garret Rossler), Kerry Stein (Podiatrist #1), Frank DiElsi (Podiatrist #2), David Shawn Michaels (Lolita LuPage), Paula Trickey (bikini model), Wade Partridge (waiter)

Mary Jo finds the young man who mugged her but has second thoughts about pressing charges since the legal system seems to be in his favor. After Julia forces her sister to escort Bernice to the mall, Suzanne starts making regular trips with the seniors when they start buying her little gifts.

Guest cast: Alice Ghostley (Bernice Clifton), Donna Lynn Leavy (Sergeant Ramsey), Laurence Haddon (Judge), Justin Dana (Mary Jo's attorney), George R. Parker (Norman's attorney), P. R. Paul (Norman Bates), Dona Hardy (Margaret), Dan Dillon (attractive man)

Everyone is devastated over the sudden death of Reese -- especially Julia, who is also forced to contend with taking-in and caring for the insufferable little Randa Oliver.

Guest cast: Lexi Randall (Randa Oliver), Jennifer Rhodes (Ms. Tauber), Lyndsey Fields (Miss Travis), Peter Jolly (man), Joe Verroca (taxi driver)

Planning for she and Charlene to finish writing their children's book, Mary Jo feels left out when Charlene's husband finally returns unexpectedly from the Gulf. Meanwhile, Julia fails her drivers license renewal test, and Bernice starts videotaping everyone in attempts to get her video on television.

Guest cast: Alice Ghostley (Bernice Clifton), Douglas Barr (Colonel Bill Stillfield), Lexi Randall (Randa Oliver)

Suzanne hears that the Beaumont Driving Club is accepting one new member, but becomes frustrated when Anthony is chosen to join --- even though it is only a token gesture to get the club onto the PGA tour.

Guest cast: Alice Ghostley (Bernice Clifton), Lexi Randall (Randa Oliver), Gracie Harrison (Cissy Farenholt), Rena Craig (Bitty Cantrell), Mark Neely (Bruz Duncan), Jay Bell (Stewart Crimmons), Michelle Buffone (photographer), Monika Schnarre (young woman)

After Sugarbaker's agrees to sponsor a little league team, Mary Jo and Julia end up at odds over their different coaching styles when Randa turns out to be a better player than Quint. Meanwhile, Suzanne's car windshield keeps getting nailed by foul balls.

Guest cast: Dennis Burkley (Buford), Lexi Randall (Randa Oliver), Brian Lando (Quinton Shively)

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