Designing Women - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

• From 1991 to 1992, CBS aired reruns of Designing Women on its late night schedule at 3 am (EST).
• Designing Women was rerun on the Lifetime cable network for over a decade. Despite its popularity, the show left the network on August 4, 2006.
• A 90-minute retrospective special, The Designing Women Reunion, aired on Lifetime on July 28, 2003, reuniting Burke, Potts, Smart, Carter and Taylor in which they shared memories from their time on the series, and also featured interviews with the Thomasons and various writers. Actors Alice Ghostley, Hal Holbrook, Gerald McRaney, and Richard Gilliland also took part in the special.
• The series started on October 2, 2006 on Nick at Nite, however it quickly left and later appeared on its sister network TV Land, airing at various late-night and morning times occasionally until the network lost the rights to air the show in 2008.
• The series also aired on ION Television in 2007, Mon-Thurs at 7:00 & 7:30 pm ET.
• Burke did a guest spot on two episodes of Annie Potts' subsequent series Any Day Now in 1998 and 1999 on the Lifetime cable network.
• Burke and Carter reconciled and later reunited when Burke guest starred on Carter's subsequent series Family Law in 2002.
• In an episode of 30 Rock, protagonist Liz Lemon stays up for days doing the work of her employees while watching a Designing Women marathon. Eventually she tells them to do their own work, ending her rant at them with '...and if you do not do as I say you will never alter drapes in Atlanta again, because you do not cross a Sugarbaker Woman... I'm so tired' before bursting into tears and falling asleep.
• Currently airing on the Comedy Gold (formerly TV Land Canada) in one-hour blocks every day at 11 am and 5 pm EST.
• TV Guide Network also began airing a one-hour block weekdays at 11 am EST in October 2011.