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Designing Women•Season 4•Episode 20

Tornado Watch

8.5/10 · 120 votesFeb 26, 199030 min

Ranked #7 of 28 in Season 4•+0.5 vs season avg

A bizarre collection of characters is trapped inside Sugarbakers by a tornado warning, including hillbilly Daddy Jones who takes a liking to Bernice.

Directed byWilliam Crain

Written byLinda Bloodworth-Thomason

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Seasons7

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Season 4 Episodes28

The Proxy Pig and Great Pretenders still

The Proxy Pig and Great Pretenders

One Night With You still

One Night With You

There She Is still

There She Is

Nightmare From Hee Haw still

Nightmare From Hee Haw

The Girlfriend still

The Girlfriend

The Rowdy Girls still

The Rowdy Girls

Bernice's Sanity Hearing still

Bernice's Sanity Hearing

Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence

Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure

Manhunt

They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?

You Got to Have Friends

The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (1)

The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (2)

The Mistress

The Fur Flies

Oh, What a Feeling

Anthony and Vanessa

Payne Grows Up

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Tornado Watch

Tough Enough

It's A Wonderful Life

Suzanne Goes Looking For a Friend

Foreign Affairs

Have Faith

Their Finest Hour

Anthony's Graduation

La Place sans Souci

Cast5

Delta Burke

Delta Burke

Suzanne Sugarbaker

Dixie Carter

Dixie Carter

Julia Sugarbaker

Annie Potts

Annie Potts

Mary Jo Shively

Jean Smart

Jean Smart

Charlene Frazier Stillfield

Meshach Taylor

Meshach Taylor

Anthony Bouvier

Crew2

Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

Writer

William Crain

William Crain

Director

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Episode Summary

"Tornado Watch" is episode 20 of Designing Women season 4. It scored 8.5/10 from 120 votes, ranking #7 of 28 episodes this season (season average 8.0). Directed by William Crain and written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, it aired on February 26, 1990.

Next: E21 · Tough Enough Best of Season 4