'Housewives' to screen flashback episode

Desperate Housewives will screen an episode set almost entirely in 1994, it has emerged.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the May episode will feature the return of Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young.

Numb3rs star Diane Farr will also guest star as a woman "whose life has taken a bad turn since her husband left her 16 years earlier".

An insider added that "she has become a hard-drinking, abusive woman."

Desperate Housewives continues Sundays at 9pm on ABC in the US and Wednesdays at 10pm on Channel 4 in the UK.

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