I'll Fly Away - Season 1
I'll Fly Away is an American drama television series set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, in an unspecified Southern U.S. state. It aired on NBC from 1991 to 1993 and starred Regina Taylor as Lilly Harper, a black housekeeper for the family of district attorney Forrest Bedford, whose name is an ironic reference to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. As the show progressed, Lilly became increasingly involved in the Civil Rights Movement, with events eventually drawing in Forrest as well.
I'll Fly Away won two 1992 Emmy Awards, and 23 nominations in total. It won three Humanitas Prizes, two Golden Globe Awards, two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, and a Peabody Award. However, the series was never a ratings blockbuster, and it was canceled by NBC in 1993, despite widespread protests by critics and viewer organizations.
After the program's cancellation, a two-hour movie, I'll Fly Away: Then and Now, was produced, in order to resolve dangling storylines from Season 2, and provide the series with a true finale. The movie aired on October 11, 1993 on PBS. Its major storyline closely paralleled the true story of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. Thereafter, PBS began airing repeats of the original episodes, ceasing after one complete showing of the entire series.
Year: 1993
Genre: Drama
Country:
Studio: NBC
Director: Joshua Brand, John Falsey
Cast: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch, John Aaron Bennett, Peter Simmons
Crew: Joshua Brand (Executive Producer), David Chase (Executive Producer), Henry Bromell (Producer), Ian Sander (Producer), Barbara Hall (Executive Producer), John Falsey (Executive Producer)
First Air Date: Oct 07, 1991
Last Air date: Oct 11, 1993
Season: 3 Season
Episode: 39 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 7.00/10 by 3.00 users
Popularity: 8.848
Language: English
Keyword : southern usa, civil rights, racism, period drama, housekeeper, district attorney, 1950s, domestic worker
Episode
(pilot)
The Hat
Rules Of The Game
Amazing Grace
All God's Children
Beyond Here Dar Be Dragons
Parallel Lives
Coming Home
Some Desperate Glory
Desire
Alice Oakley Doesn't Live Here Anymore
On The Road
Master Magician
Hard Lessons
Cool Winter Blues
The Way Things Are
Slow Dark Coming
Toy Soldiers
The Kindness Of Strangers
Not Buried
A Dangerous Comfort
The Slightest Distance
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