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Lipstick on Your Collar

1993 · 1 season · 6 episodes · Ended · Channel 4

Comedy, Drama, War & Politics

TMDB 6.9 · 27 votes

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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.

Episodes

  • S01E01Episode 11993-02-2160m

    Private Mick Hopper passes the day in the War Office dreaming of becoming a drummer. Meanwhile, new recruit Private Francis Francis is dancing to a different beat...

  • S01E02Episode 21993-02-2860m

    Francis' worst fears about who lives upstairs with the beautiful Sylvia Berry are confirmed, and he confides all to Mick Hopper - with disastrous results.

  • S01E03Episode 31993-03-0760m

    Hopper continues to fantasise at work and discusses women and love with Francis. When the red phone rings, Hopper is convinced the message is about the Suez crisis.

  • S01E04Episode 41993-03-1460m

    Hopper is dreaming of Lisa. Francis is dreaming of Sylvia. And all hell breaks loose down at the Hammersmith Palais.

  • S01E05Episode 51993-03-2160m

    Sylvia despairs at Francis and is angry at Atterbow. Meanwhile, Hopper gets ready for his night out with Lisa.

  • S01E06Episode 61993-03-2860m

    Francis has a confession to make to his family: Vickie is horrified, Fred just laughs. Elsewhere, Sylvia visits Harold Atterbrow in hospital.

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