BBC Two · Ended

Sleepers

Drama, Comedy, Thriller · 1991

Last aired: S1 E4, Welcome Home · 1991-05-01

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been "lost." A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counter-plots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.

Cast

Nigel Havers Jeremy Coward

Warren Clarke Albert Robinson

David Calder Victor Chekhov

Michael Gough Andrei Zorin

Christopher Rozycki Oleg Petrovski

Season 1

E1 The Awakening 1991-04-10 · 60 min Deep in the heart of the Kremlin a discovery is made which sends shockwaves through the KGB hierarchy. The repercussions are felt in the heart of the City of London, and in a brewery in Eccles.

E2 The Net Tightens 1991-04-17 · 60 min MI5 and the CIA are perplexed by the sudden increase in KGB activity in the UK, and our 'heroes' past lives are catching up with them.

E3 On the Run 1991-04-24 · 60 min Albert makes a dash for freedom, hotly pursued by the KGB. In London, M15 and CIA take action to apprehend the suspected subversives. In Eccles, Sandra searches for her missing husband.

E4 Welcome Home 1991-05-01 · 60 min In the Scottish Highlands, Jeremy and Albert prepare to escape, while in Eccles, private investigator Bob Riley discovers Albert is not all he seems.

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