Lipstick on Your Collar
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 (including "Lay Down Your Arms"), and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
- 1993-1993
- 1 season
- Comedy, Drama, Music, Action & Adventure
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 (including "Lay Down Your Arms"), and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1993
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
58 mins
A group of British military officers and men toil away at Whitehall in the mid-1950s compiling data to be used for a battle plan to counter the Soviet Union. The enlisteds are mostly bored to distraction. One of them (Hopper) is getting ready to be demobilized and his replacement arrives near the end of the day. Francis speaks Russian non-fluently and seems intimidated by the men in his new office, especially a corporal. He moves in with his Aunt Vicky who is conducting an ongoing feud with upstairs neighbor Sylvia, a voluptuous blonde Francis immediately becomes infatuated with. Later Francis hears Sylvie and her husband fighting, and then fornicating in the upstairs hall, and realizes - to his horror - that the husband is the corporal he met earlier in the day.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
58 mins
Private Francis gets into trouble when corporal Berry accidentally overhears Francis complaining to Hopper about how the corporal mistreats his wife. Further humiliation follows for Francis when, having lingered in a bookshop during lunch, he arrives back late at the office just as the first hints of the Suez Crisis are emerging. The man stalking Sylvia turns out to be Harold Atterbow, who plays the Wurlitzer organ in the cinema where she works as an usherette.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
58 mins
Hopper 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
Episode #1.4
57 mins
Francis goes on a sneak date with Sylvia while Harold lurks nearby. Colonel Bernwood begins to break down mentally as his worries about the Suez Crisis overwhelm him.
Episode 5
Episode #1.5
59 mins
Harold's obsession spirals out of control with dramatic consequences for all involved. Hopper desperately tries to find a common interest with Lisa.
Episode 6
Episode #1.6
63 mins
Everything gets mixed up for Francis, Hopper, Sylvia and Lisa while Britain prepares for war with Egypt.
