Lipstick on Your Collar

Lipstick on Your Collar

Limited Series 1993 · 6 eps · ★ 6.9 · Comedy, Drama, War & Politics

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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.

Created by Dennis Potter

Network: Channel 4

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