Ivan the Terrible (TV series)

Ivan the Terrible
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Herbert Sargent
Starring	Lou Jacobi Christopher Hewett Nana Visitor
Theme music composer	Joe Raposo
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	5
Production
Executive producer	Alan King
Producer	Rupert Hitzig
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	King-Hitzig Productions
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	21 August (1976-08-21) – 18 September 1976 (1976-09-18)

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. 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 plus their Cuban exchange student boarder; all of whom live in a cramped, one-bedroom apartment. (The one bedroom being occupied by the family's extremely vicious and feral Russian wolfhound, "Rasputin", who was frequently heard barking and growling, even though this is almost unheard of behavior for that breed of dog, but never seen.)

Also appearing in this series were Christopher Hewett, Phil Leeds, Alan Cauldwell, Despo Diamantidou, and, in her TV series debut, Nana Visitor (here billed under her birth name, Nana Tucker). Harvey Korman appeared as a Soviet bureaucrat in an uncredited cameo at the close of each episode.

Only five episodes of Ivan the Terrible were broadcast on CBS during the late summer of 1976. Alan King was the series' executive producer.

External links

• Ivan the Terrible at IMDb