Episode
Designing Women: Killing All the Right People
Overview
"Killing All the Right People" is the 26th episode of the sitcom Designing Women. Originally airing on October 5, 1987, as the fourth episode of the second season, it features Tony Goldwyn as Kendall Dobbs, a young man dying of AIDS who asks the women to design his funeral. Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's mother died of AIDS and her experience with her mother's disease and the prejudice associated with it inspired the episode.
Details
- Series
- Designing Women
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1987-10-05
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Killing All the Right People is Episode 4 in Season 2 of Designing Women. It aired on 1987-10-05. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 7: Heart Attacks
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