

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
Private Francis Francis

Private Mick Hopper

Sylvia Berry

Corporal Berry

Colonel Bernwood

Harold Atterbow

Major Hedges

Major Carter

Major Church

Aunt Vickie