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Ike

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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.

  • Release date
  • May 3, 1979
  • Runtime
  • 97 min
  • TMDB score
  • 7.3
1 seasons Drama, War & Politics Creator: Kay Summersby Morgan

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Lowell Thomas photo Lowell Thomas Narrator (voice) Robert Duvall photo Robert Duvall Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Lee Remick photo Lee Remick Kay Summersby Dana Andrews photo Dana Andrews Gen. George C. Marshall J.D. Cannon photo J.D. Cannon Gen. Walter Bedell Smith Darren McGavin photo Darren McGavin Gen. George S. Patton Wensley Pithey photo Wensley Pithey Winston Churchill Paul Gleason photo Paul Gleason Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee

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