Sleepers: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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.

Series details

• Title: Sleepers
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Thriller
• Premiere date: 1991-04-10
• Final broadcast date listed: 1991-05-01
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 31060
• IMDb ID: tt0101200
• TVDB ID: 86031

Cast and credited roles

• Nigel Havers — Jeremy Coward
• Warren Clarke — Albert Robinson
• David Calder — Victor Chekhov
• Michael Gough — Andrei Zorin
• Christopher Rozycki — Oleg Petrovski

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1991-04-10; final listed air date 1991-05-01; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from Sleepers on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.