Every season of I'll Fly Away ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of I'll Fly Away!

I'll Fly Away (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

Hello and Goodbye

Ruler of My Heart

All in the Life

Until Tomorrow

Desperate Measure

Freedom Bus

Eighteen

Fragile Truths

Since Walter

The Third Man

Comfort and Joy

Realpolitik

Small Wishes

What's in a Name?

Commencement

State

I'll Fly Away: Then And Now

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.

The Best Seasons of I'll Fly Away

The Best Seasons of I'll Fly Away

Season 2

Season 1

Season 3