(Ike)

Overview: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Drama,

War & Politics

Networks:

ABC

Year:

1979

Production companies:

ABC Circle Films

Actors:

Narrator (voice)

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Kay Summersby

Gen. George C. Marshall

Gen. Walter Bedell Smith

Crews:

Original Music Composer

Book

Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer