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.
Melville Shavelson
Narrator (voice)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kay Summersby
Gen. George C. Marshall
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
Gen. George S. Patton
Winston Churchill
Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee
FM Sir Bernard Montgomery
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gen. Mark Clark
Mickey McKeogh