Ike 1979
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Ike, also known as Ike: The War Years, is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson is based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair. The series aired from May 3–6, 1979 on ABC. During World War II, General Dwight D. 'Ike' Eisenhower serves as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe. On a personal level, he has an extramarital affair with his driver Kay Summersby.
Cast
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Stephen Roberts
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Major Wiley
Sgt. Moaney
Crew
- Creator
- Melville Shavelson
- Producers
- Bill McCutchen
- Executive Producers
- Louis Rudolph, Melville Shavelson
- Editing
- Bill Lenny, John Woodcock
- Composer
- Fred Karlin
Details
- First air date
- May 3, 1979
- Last air date
- May 6, 1979
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 3
- Episode runtime
- 97 min
- Network
- ABC
- Status
- Ended
- Studios
- ABC Circle Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
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