Ivan the Terrible
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Cast & Crew.

Herbert Sargent
Creator

Lou Jacobi
Ivan Petrovsky

Christopher Hewett
Federov

Caroline Kava
Sonia Petrovsky

Alan Cauldwell
Nikolai Petrovsky

Maria Karnilova
Olga Petrovsky

Nana Visitor
Svetlana Petrovsky

Manuel Martínez
Raoul Sanchez
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This TV Show Is About.
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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. 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.