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Designing Women: Best Of
 
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Designing Women: Best Of (1986)
4.6 out of 5 stars  (28 customer reviews)
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Product Details

  • Format: Full Screen, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Studio: Columbia TriStar
  • DVD Release Date: Jun 1 2004
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  (28 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000A7W13
  • Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #9,425 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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For a while, Designing Women captured some of the spirit of Hollywood's silkiest and smartest, Golden Age sophistication. Debuting in the fall of 1986, this half-hour sitcom--about four Atlanta belles who either owned or worked for an upscale interior design firm--seamlessly blended an understated glamour with razor-sharp dialogue, polished Southern grace, and a ripened female perspective--a sort of perfumed but unequivocal feminism for college-educated women over 30. The core cast of stage and film veterans--Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, and Jean Smart--was unusually strong, and their characters' problems and conflicts were unique to adulthood rather than the protracted adolescence common among today's comedies. The five episodes on this disc represent some of the show's strongest material, including season two's "Killing All the Right People," which--for its time--was bold in introducing a character dying of AIDS complications. Also quite witty is "Reservations for Eight," in which the Georgia quartet and their lovers bicker over gender stereotypes. --Tom Keogh

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Join Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker along with Mary Jo and Charlene in five of the most popular episodes! Fans have requested these episodes the most: the pilot episode that began it all, "Killing All the Right People" and "Reservations for Eight" from the second season, "Big Hass and Little Falsie" from the third season, and "They Shoot Fat Women Don't They?" from the fourth season. Starring Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Jean Smart and Meshach Taylor.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I WANT THE ENTIRE SERIES, April 8 2004
I love Designing women and I want them to put the whole series on DVD! I will buy them all!
I would love The Nanny series as well ....
They both make me laugh
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5.0 out of 5 stars Four Southern Belles Sitting on a Veranda, Jul 23 2003
By Justin Norton (Newport, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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From 1986 to 1993, Desiging Women aired weekly and caught the attention of millions of viewers. Now the series can be seen on Lifetime. But what better than to own a piece of one of televisions' funniest comedies!?! The original cast of Designing Women were one of televisions best combinations of their time. To be the first release for Designing Women...This one has to be a smart one. It is a very clever way to show everyone who wants a little taste of the series just what Designing Women is all about without paying the big bucks for a complete season. This Show, by far, has touched on many topics that have shown a different look at the silly and the sad times of our lives. From Mary Jo's desire to get bigger breasts...to dealing a friend who is H.I.V. positive...to dealing with the coping of weigh gain, the girls of Sugar Bakers' have been through it all. Although "all" of my favorites aren't included on this DVD (simply because it would be hard to put a low enough price on a "top 25" dvd) this DVD is one that fans of Desiging Women will cherish. I recommend to anyone who is just wanting a good laugh and to set back and see just how funny life can be...GET THIS DVD!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than nothing at all..., Mar 13 2006
By Roger O. Thornhill (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
The episodes featured on this disk are among the best ever broadcast of this intelligent and witty series. Despite occasional lapses into squirm-inducing preachiness or treacly sentimentality (particularly in its portrayal of Jean Smart's character), it remains an important show from the eighties. All of the original actresses (including Alice Ghostley) and actor Meshach Taylor were wonderful. Unfortunately, the talents of Jan Hooks, Julia Duffy and Judith Ivey were sadly wasted, given the fact that they gave memorable performances in Saturday Night Live, Newhart and the film Compromising Positions, respectively.

Why is it that many less diverting and intellectually satisfying series which ran as long have been brought out in boxed sets, and yet those of us who love Julia, Suzanne, Mary Jo, Charlene and Anthony have to make do with a "Best of" disk? Perhaps it's the so-called "liberal" (I prefer humanist) bent of the series' creator, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, or her association with the Clintons might have an impact on sales. Could it be the show's literate style, which is several cuts above the lion's share of its contemporaries? It can't be the fact that the main leads are female (The Golden Girls, Murphy Brown and their predecessor The Mary Tyler Moore Show are all being brought out in complete series)... Maybe it's the lack of car crashes and gun-related violence. Who can say?

Well I say, damn the right-wing backlash, anti-intellectualism, misogyny, NASCAR or the NRA! There are enough of us out there who can handle a little message with our comedy. Whatever the reason, I urge Columbia TriStar to get on with it, bring out Designing Women in boxed sets and realize a tidy profit.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best of Designing Women
I know there are more "Best of" Designing women, so please bring out all the episodes - so everyone can once again remember why they wathced these wonderful southern women... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Victoria Kuntz

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it! Want all episodes on DVD, as well as Bloopers!
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