Starring Leslie Phillips in the lead role, it was set in the Foreign Office in Whitehall.
Foreign Affairs introduced the writers to young actor Richard O'Sullivan and this would lead to his title role in the 1970s sitcom Man About the House.
The programme focuses on the conflicts between the Foreign Office and the counterparts at the Soviet Embassy in London.
Serge Volchanivov is the commissar for foreign relations and his assistant is Grischa Petrovitch.
[1] Due to the archival policies of the time, all six episodes were subsequently wiped and no longer exist.