Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestThe jig is up and the sleepers are going in. Nina begins to regret her success when she learns the truth. Meanwhile, Comrade Zorin is out of the mental hospital and back in command of the mission.
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.
Acting
Nigel Havers and Warren Clarke's delicious double lives
Writing
Wickedly sharp Cold War satire that still stings
Production
Glasnost-era BBC capturing Moscow-London tension perfectly
Creators
John Flanagan, Andrew McCulloch
Nigel Havers
Jeremy Coward / Sergei Rublev
Warren Clarke
Albert Robinson / Vladimir Zelenski
David Calder
Victor Chekhov
Michael Gough
Andrei Zorin
Joanna Kanska
Major Nina Grishina
Christopher Rozycki
Oleg Petrovski
Alan David
K1
William Chubb
George Wetherby
Angus MacInnes
Bill Sullivan
Ricco Ross
Karl Richfield
Annie Hulley
Sandra Robinson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Written and aired during actual glasnost, making its Soviet-collapse satire almost too real-time. The BBC basically comedically predicted history.
Creator Andrew McCulloch later wrote for Doctor Who—explains the delicious 'ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances' energy throughout.
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