Ivan the Terrible (TV series)

Ivan the Terrible was an American sitcom that aired on CBS for five episodes during 1976.

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American - Sitcom - CBS - 1976

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The short-lived series parodied American attitudes towards the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. 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.

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Soviet Union - Cold War - Moscow - Lou Jacobi - Cuban

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Also appearing in this series were Christopher Hewitt, Phil Leeds, Alan Cauldwell and, in her TV series debut, Nana Visitor (here billed under her birth name, Nana Tucker).

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Christopher Hewitt - Phil Leeds - Alan Cauldwell - Nana Visitor

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The executive producer of this series was noted comic, Alan King.

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Executive producer - Alan King

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