SHOW: I'LL FLY AWAY
TIME: OCT. 11, 8 P.M. (MOST STATIONS), PBS
THE BOTTOM LINE: NBC's fine series about race relations in the South gets a stilted and sentimental send-off on PBS.
I'll Fly Away, NBC's fine, thoughtful series about a small Southern town in the late 1950s, always seemed like an anachronism in the 1990s. A network drama with no guns, drug pushers or colorful small-town eccentrics -- just a lot of ordinary people on the cusp of the civil rights movement. The surprise isn't that the show was canceled last spring after two seasons, but that it | developed...
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