Lipstick on Your Collar

Overview

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.

Created by Dennis Potter

Network

• Channel 4

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• Giles Thomas

  Private Francis Francis

  6 eps

• 

  Ewan McGregor

  Private Mick Hopper

  6 eps

• 

  Louise Germaine

  Sylvia Berry

  6 eps

• 

  Douglas Henshall

  Corporal Berry

  6 eps

Themes

• england
• rock 'n' roll
• office
• dreams
• surreal
• army
• neighbor
• sexual humor
• pianist
• period drama
• military
• usherette

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