Production
"Killing All the Right People" was written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creator of Designing Women, whose mother died after contracting AIDS from a blood transfusion. Although there was a screening test available that could have been used to identify unsafe blood, not all blood banks utilized it, allowing infected blood to be unknowingly spread through transfusions. During her mother's illness, Bloodworth-Thomason saw the prejudice people with AIDS experience, particularly the prejudice against gay men with AIDS. The episode's title is derived from a comment she overheard in the hospital: "The good thing about AIDS is that it's killing all the right people." She incorporated a version of the remark into the script.
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