Season 1
S1 · E1 · May 3, 1979
Part 1 Episode 1
S1 · E2 · May 4, 1979
Part 2 Episode 2
S1 · E3 · May 6, 1979
Part 3 Episode 3
3 episodes in Season 1
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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.
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Lowell Thomas
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Melville Shavelson Creator · Boris Sagal Director Kay Summersby Morgan Author
Total runtime 4h 51m · Episode length 97 min · Type Miniseries
Show info
Premiered
May 3, 1979
Final episode
May 6, 1979
Status
Ended
Network
ABC
Country
United States
Type
Miniseries
Episode length
97 min
Total runtime
4h 51m
Original language
English
Production
ABC Circle Films
Production
United States
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Languages
Spoken on screen
English
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