Ivan the Terrible (TV series)
| Ivan the Terrible | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Starring |
Lou Jacobi Christopher Hewett Nana Visitor |
| Country of origin |
 United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | King-Hitzig Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | 21 August 1976 – 18 September 1976 |
Ivan the Terrible is an American sitcom that aired on CBS for five episodes during 1976.
The short-lived 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 and 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, despite the fact that 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 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.
The executive producer of this series was noted comic Alan King.