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Ivan the Terrible is an American sitcom that was broadcast on CBS as a summer replacement series in 1976. The series parodied American attitudes toward the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.
- Sitcom
Ivan IV of Russia is gradually reborn into the same Ivan the Terrible - a cruel tyrant. And now rumors of his ruthlessness and violent temper are becoming true, and these changes in the character of the king are changing history.
- (111)
- 2020-11-23
- Biography, Drama, History
- 52
Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted in Israel after being misidentified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. In 1993 the verdict was overturned.
Ivan the Terrible: Created by Herbert Sargent. With Lou Jacobi, Christopher Hewett, Caroline Kava, Alan Cauldwell. Ivan Petrovsky, a decent and hard-working blue-collar man, toils at his menial position as head-waiter at a Moscow hotel in order to provide for his wife, three children, mother-in-law and Cuban exchange student, all of whom live ...
- (20)
- 1976-08-21
- Comedy
- 30
Obnoxious American TV host Tom Skyler chooses the Petrovskys for a show on a typical Russian family. A Kremlin p.r. team then descends on Ivan's shabby apartment to give it a complete make-over, so Americans can see how high the Russian standard of living is.
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Set in Moscow, the sitcom starred Lou Jacobi as a Russian hotel waiter named Ivan Petrovsky, and the day-to-day misadventures of Ivan's family and their Cuban exchange student boarder, all of whom live in a cramped, one-bedroom apartment.
