The Rookie

Suzanne shocks her co-workers when she begins dating Mary Jo's ex-husband.

Suzanne's substantial beauty contest expertise rises to the fore with surprising results when Charlene sponsors Mary Jo's daughter in the Miss Pre-Teen Atlanta Contest.

Suzanne's intimate dinner party, planned to impress an important client, goes awry before it begins when she arranges a date between a more-than-hefty man and a reluc-tant Charlene.

When Julia's nineteen-year-old son brings his girlfriend home from college, diplomacy becomes impossible when Julia finds that the girl is a forty-year-old professor.

Concerned that Mary Jo is not having any fun since her divorce, Suzanne arranges a blind date for her with an old acquaintance, while Julia tries to get through an I. R. S. audit with a man she verbally abused when he tried to pick up the women

Suzanne is tired of her image as front bimbo for Sugarbaker's and wants to be a dec-orator. But she gets discouraged when her first design project burns to the ground.

Julia and Suzanne's mother arrives with a friend hoping to escape the dull routine of their retirement home by visiting Sugarbakers for Thanksgiving and they find more excitement than they had ever hoped.

Julia and her current beau go out for a celebratory dinner and on a whim decide to get married. The next morning finds Julia wanting to get out of the marriage until Reese shows up with the annulment papers.

Although Charlene still has a relationship with Mason, she begins dating another man. Unfortunately, unknown to Charlene, her new boyfriend is married.

When Suzanne has a voodoo death curse placed on her by her maid, she convinces Julia, Charlene and Mary Jo to spend the night with her so she won't die alone.

Gala Plans for a New Year's Eve celebration bite the dust when it seems that Charlene's date is the "armed and dangerous" prison escapee Shadow.

Mary Jo finds the road to romance more than usually rocky and Charlene receives dis-turbing medical news.

Mary Jo finds the road to romance more than usually rocky and Charlene receives dis-turbing medical news.

A dilemma faces Sugarbaker's when they ponder the morality of their latest -- and most lucrative -- client.

The women of Sugarbaker's are delighted to pick up sane authentic antique furniture at bargain prices until they wind up in jail for buying stolen furniture.

Jealousy takes a giant step forward when Julia assumes her friend Reese is overly pre-occupied with the beautiful new attorney in his law office.

A chance meeting with a hot-shot promoter at a party convinces Charlene that she will be the next big Nashville music star.

Suzanne brings a new meaning to mother love when she agrees to become a temporary foster mother.

When Mary Jo's father arrives in Atlanta for a visit and takes a fancy to Charlene, Mary Jo's imagination goes wild.

Integrity and values are tested when Sugarbaker's acquires a flamboyant, spendthrift couple as their latest client.

When Suzannes ex-husband, pro baseball player Jack Dent, writes his autobiography detailing his off-the-field activities, she decides to get even and play hardball herself .

Sexual harassment becomes the order of the day when Mary Jo is subjected to special attention and pressure from a wealthy client.