Lipstick on Your Collar

Miniseries

During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.

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6 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1Six men work in an office in Whitehall. Private Hopper's bored with translating Russian and imagines musical scenes played out in the office. His replacement, Private Francis x2, arrives. Then there's Berry's sexy wife.
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2Francis' worst fears about who lives upstairs with the beautiful Sylvia Berry are confirmed, and he confides all to Mick Hopper - with disastrous results.
  • Episode 3
    E3
    Episode 3Hopper worries the Suez crisis will extend his stay in the army. This time it's the officers who are late to return from lunch, when a call comes though on the scrambler phone. Hopper falls in love when colonel Trekker brings his niece Lisa to visit the office.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4Hopper is dreaming of Lisa. Francis is dreaming of Sylvia. And all hell breaks loose down at the Hammersmith Palais.
  • Episode 5
    E5
    Episode 5Sylvia despairs at Francis and is angry at Atterbow. Meanwhile, Hopper gets ready for his night out with Lisa.
  • Episode 6
    E6
    Episode 6Francis has a confession to make to his family: Vickie is horrified, Fred just laughs. Elsewhere, Sylvia visits Harold Atterbrow in hospital.
  • Giles ThomasPrivate Francis Francis
  • Ewan McGregorPrivate Mick Hopper
  • Louise GermaineSylvia Berry
  • Douglas HenshallCorporal Berry
  • Peter JeffreyColonel Bernwood
  • Roy HuddHarold Atterbow
  • Clive FrancisMajor Hedges
  • Nicholas JonesMajor Carter
  • Nicholas FarrellMajor Church
  • Maggie SteedAunt Vickie
  • Bernard HillUncle Fred
  • Bernard BrownPrime Minister Eden
  • Renny RyeDirector
  • Dennis PotterExecutive Producer
  • Rosemary PadvaiskasProducer
  • Alison BarnettProducer
  • Gary WilliamsonProduction Design
  • Paul CrossArt Direction
  • Sean Van HalesDirector Of Photography
  • Sharon LewisCostume Design

 

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