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  1. Lipstick on Your Collar is a 1993 British television serial written by Dennis Potter. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in February and March 1993. Expanded from Potter's earlier television play Lay Down Your Arms (1970), it features Ewan McGregor in his first major role.

  2. Lipstick on Your Collar: With Giles Thomas, Ewan McGregor, Louise Germaine, Douglas Henshall. 7 men work in a military intelligence office in 1956 London. Hopper is bored translating Russian and imagines rock'n'roll musicals set in the office. Francis dreams of Berry's wife.

    • (1.4K)
    • 1993-02-21
    • Comedy, Drama, Musical
    • 360
  3. Major Church, played by Nicholas Farrell, who in this has the most wonderfully lugubrious face and voice since Michael Hordern. The way he says, "Explicate the inexplicable" and "Like a gazelle" and "Stand close to the razor" are the high points of the whole series for me

  4. In 2014, he portrayed Eyre Crowe in the British documentary drama miniseries 37 Days, about the weeks leading up to World War I. Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot films, Sharpe's Regiment, Lipstick on Your Collar, To Play the King, Roman Mysteries, Torchwood, and Collision.

  5. 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. Dennis Potter. Creator.

  6. Lipstick on Your Collar is another brilliant Dennis Potter satire, this time about the end of the British Empire. It ended, by the way, with a resounding 'thud" when Egypt kicked the Brits out of their country and took control of the Suez Canal.

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  8. Jun 17, 2024 · Synopsis. 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. Cast.