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The series ran 1 season across 3 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
3 audience votes
Seasons
| 1 | Miniseries | 3 ep1979 |
Key crew
- Fred KarlinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Lowell ThomasNarrator (voice)
- Robert DuvallGen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Lee RemickKay Summersby
- Dana AndrewsGen. George C. Marshall
- J.D. CannonGen. Walter Bedell Smith
- Darren McGavinGen. George S. Patton
- Wensley PitheyWinston Churchill
- Paul GleasonCapt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee
- Ian RichardsonFM Sir Bernard Montgomery
- Stephen RobertsPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- William SchallertGen. Mark Clark
- Vincent MarzelloMickey McKeogh
Stills
Themes
historical figureminiserieshistorical dramabiographical drama