This is a review of the British television series "The Office". The show was set in the Whitehall office of the British Military Intelligence Office in 1956, where a small group of foreign affairs analysts found their quiet existence disrupted by the Suez Crisis. Ewan McGregor played Mick Hopper, who was doing his national service as an interpreter of Russian documents. He was bored with his job and spent his days creating fantasy daydreams that involved his work colleagues breaking into contemporary hit songs. Louise Germaine played Sylvia Berry, the blonde wife of the violent Corporal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia was an object of desire for Mick's fellow clerk Private Francis Francis and a middle-aged pipe-organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). Unlike the street-wise Hopper, Francis was a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career had been interrupted by his army call up. The appearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enabled the two conscripts to pair off with suitable partners, after initial mismatching. Some of the side themes included the influence of American rock and roll on English society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who were regular army officers, and the conscripted other ranks, the work of Russian playwright Chekhov, and the appreciation of opulent theatre pipe organs. The unusual context — a military culture transplanted into a civil service style office environment — reflected Potter's own national service during the 1950s. While this piece had the form of a romantic comedy, unlike the less conventional works of Dennis Potter's middle period, it was not without graphic sex and violence, as well as Potter's characteristic flashes of dreamlike imagery. The centrepiece of this production was the surreal musical sequence set to the song In a Persian Market.