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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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Melville Shavelson
ABC

Ike 1979 ABC Mini Series Promo

Darren McGavin
Gen. George S. Patton

Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill

Paul Gleason
Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee

Ian Richardson
FM Sir Bernard Montgomery
Stephen Roberts
Stephen Roberts
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

William Schallert
Gen. Mark Clark

Vincent Marzello
Mickey McKeogh
Major Wiley
Major Wiley
Sgt. Moaney

Tony Clarkin
US Sergeant (uncredited)

Bonnie Bartlett
Mary 'Mamie' Eisenhower (née Doud)

Vernon Dobtcheff
Gen. Charles DeGaulle

Richard Herd
Gen. Omar Bradley

David de Keyser
FM Sir Alan Brooke

Francis Matthews
Noël Coward
Patricia Michael
Patricia Michael
Gertrude Lawrence