Sleepers (1991)

Comedy · Drama

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.

IMDb rating: 8.4 (487 votes)
Episode average: 8.5 +0.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: Mini-series

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Seasons

Season 1 (1991)

8.50 avg 4 episodes 8.3 → 9.1

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Awakening	8.3	26
2	The Net Tightens	8.1	14
3	On the Run	8.5	14
4	Welcome Home	9.1	15