Peter Simmons

Après la mort de sa femme et son fils pendant l'accouchement, le père de Claire, Jack McLeod, épouse Ruth Silverman. Tess est le produit de cette union de courte durée. Vingt ans plus tard, après la mort soudaine de Jack, ses filles héritent chacune de la moitié du lourdement hypothéqué Drover's Run. Tess, qui a récemment perdu sa mère d'un cancer du sein, revient à Drover dans l'espoir de pouvoir ouvrir un café de la ville mais est déçu de la situation financière de sa sœur ainée. Après que Claire licencie la main-d’œuvre masculine, les sœurs, avec l'aide de la ménagère Meg Fontaine et de ses filles Jodi et Becky, décident d'exécuter elles-mêmes les travaux d'entretien de la ferme et se sortir de leurs dettes.

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.