Plot
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
as Narrator (voice)
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Kay Summersby
as Gen. George C. Marshall
as Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
as Gen. George S. Patton
as Winston Churchill
as Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee
as FM Sir Bernard Montgomery
as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
May 3, 1979
Last Aired Date
May 6, 1979
Production Companies
ABC Circle Films
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
3
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Miniseries
1979|3 Episodes
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.
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