Sleepers is a 1991 comedy-drama produced by Cinema Verity for the BBC, and that aired on BBC2 from 10 April to 1 May 1991, set around the period of Glasnost in the Soviet Union.

One of them, Jeremy Coward, has become a successful City financier with a string of girlfriends, a posh car and a studio apartment.

The other, Albert Robinson, is a hard-working moderate trade unionist living in Eccles in the north of England, with a wife, children and a council house.

The KGB also begin to take action to retrieve the two rogue agents and send Major Grishina—a darkly attractive female officer—to the United Kingdom in order to bring them back to the Soviet Union.

The chief KGB officer in the UK is more decadent than the locals and is originally discovered watching an American baseball game on the TV.