Ike

Ike (1979)


  • Genre: Drama, War & Politics
  • Creator: Melville Shavelson
  • First Air Date: 1979-05-03
  • Last Air Date: 1979-05-06
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 3
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 97 min.
  • Production Company: ABC Circle Films
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Networks: ABC
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Summary

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.

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Ike Seasons

Season 1

First Air Date: 1979-05-03
3 Episodes

Ike Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 1Episode 1120 min
Season 1Episode 2Episode 2120 min
Season 1Episode 3Episode 3120 min
  • Lowell Thomas

    as Narrator (voice)
  • Robert Duvall

    as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Lee Remick

    as Kay Summersby
  • Dana Andrews

    as Gen. George C. Marshall
  • J.D. Cannon

    as Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
  • Darren McGavin

    as Gen. George S. Patton
  • Wensley Pithey

    as Winston Churchill
  • Paul Gleason

    as Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee
  • Ian Richardson

    as FM Sir Bernard Montgomery
  • Stephen Roberts

    as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • William Schallert

    as Gen. Mark Clark
  • Vincent Marzello

    as Mickey McKeogh
  • Major Wiley

    as Sgt. Moaney
Sound Fred Karlin Original Music Composer
Writing Kay Summersby Morgan Book
Production Bill McCutchen Producer
Production Louis Rudolph Executive Producer
Production Melville Shavelson Executive Producer
Editing Bill Lenny Editor
Editing John Woodcock Editor
Art Ward Preston Art Direction
Art Peter Murton Art Direction
Production Lynn Stalmaster Casting Director