Designing Women - Season 2 - Eps 4: Killing All the Right People
"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.
About Designing Women

Title: Designing Women
First Air Date: 1986-09-29
Last Air Date: 1993-05-24
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.742/10 (from 31 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 8
Total Episodes: 163
Network: CBS
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: Columbia Pictures Television, Mozark Productions, Embassy Television
Synopsis
Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
Cast

Dixie Carter
Julia Sugarbaker

Annie Potts
Mary Jo Shively

Jan Hooks
Carlene Frazier Dobber

Judith Ivey
Bonnie Jean "B.J." Poteet

Meshach Taylor
Anthony Bouvier