TV Show Details
Air Date:May 3rd, 1979
Last Air Date:May 6th, 1979
Network:ABC
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama , War & Politics
Original Language:English
Production Companies:ABC Circle Films
Ike (1979)
ABC
Miniseries
Audience Score
WritersMelville Shavelson
Plot
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.
