Yes Minister

Yes Minister

Ended First aired 25/Feb/1980 United Kingdom English 4 season(s) 24 episode(s)
ComedyWar & Politics
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.
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Season 3 · Series 3
7 episode(s) · Air date: 11/Nov/1982
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Westminster and Whitehall clash again as the Rt Hon. Jim Hacker, the Minister for Administrative Affairs, locks horns with his Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby.

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Westminster and Whitehall clash again as the Rt Hon. Jim Hacker, the Minister for Administrative Affairs, locks horns with his Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby.

S3E7
The Middle-Class Rip-Off
Air date: 23/Dec/1982 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Jim and Sir Humphrey collide when Jim acts as an M.P. to sell an art gallery and museum in his district to support a popular local soccer club.

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Jim and Sir Humphrey collide when Jim acts as an M.P. to sell an art gallery and museum in his district to support a popular local soccer club.

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S3E6
The Whisky Priest
Air date: 16/Dec/1982 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Jim faces opposition from all sides when he learns that British munitions have been sold to terrorist groups and he decides to start an inquiry into how it happened.

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Jim faces opposition from all sides when he learns that British munitions have been sold to terrorist groups and he decides to start an inquiry into how it happened.

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S3E4
The Moral Dimension
Air date: 02/Dec/1982 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Jim is forced to back down about exposing bribery used to obtain a lucrative foreign contract when Bernard allows a valuable vase from a foreign government to be undervalued so that Mrs Hacker can keep it.

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Jim is forced to back down about exposing bribery used to obtain a lucrative foreign contract when Bernard allows a valuable vase from a foreign government to be undervalued so that Mrs Hacker can keep it.

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S3E3
The Skeleton in the Cupboard
Air date: 25/Nov/1982 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Jim uses a costly mistake from Sir Humphrey’s past to escape chastising an efficient local council for being late with their paperwork.

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Jim uses a costly mistake from Sir Humphrey’s past to escape chastising an efficient local council for being late with their paperwork.

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Season 2 · Series 2
7 episode(s) · Air date: 23/Feb/1981
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The Rt Hon. Jim Hacker MP and Sir Humphrey step out again for the second series of the Whitehall waltz.

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The Rt Hon. Jim Hacker MP and Sir Humphrey step out again for the second series of the Whitehall waltz.

S2E7
A Question of Loyalty
Air date: 06/Apr/1981 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Jim and Sir Humphrey pass the buck to protect each other when they appear before a select committee investigating charges of waste in Hacker’s ministry, until Jim’s higher loyalties are called upon.

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Jim and Sir Humphrey pass the buck to protect each other when they appear before a select committee investigating charges of waste in Hacker’s ministry, until Jim’s higher loyalties are called upon.

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S2E6
The Quality of Life
Air date: 30/Mar/1981 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Sir Humphrey uses Jim’s promise to keep a popular city farm project open to get special permission for an additional nine floors on a proposed skyscraper.

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Sir Humphrey uses Jim’s promise to keep a popular city farm project open to get special permission for an additional nine floors on a proposed skyscraper.

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S2E5
The Devil You Know
Air date: 23/Mar/1981 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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When Jim is betrayed by a Cabinet colleague over his plans to bring in jobs for British workers, he thinks about leaving Westminster and becoming a European Commissioner, But when Sir Humphrey learns who his replacement will be, he tries to change Jim’s mind.

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When Jim is betrayed by a Cabinet colleague over his plans to bring in jobs for British workers, he thinks about leaving Westminster and becoming a European Commissioner, But when Sir Humphrey learns who his replacement will be, he tries to change Jim’s mind.

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S2E4
The Greasy Pole
Air date: 16/Mar/1981 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Jim has the chance of creating jobs, and saving a chemical company, when they are offered the chance to manufacture a highly dangerous chemical, but when the news gets out that it might be too dangerous, he has to back down.

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Jim has the chance of creating jobs, and saving a chemical company, when they are offered the chance to manufacture a highly dangerous chemical, but when the news gets out that it might be too dangerous, he has to back down.

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S2E3
The Death List
Air date: 09/Mar/1981 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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When Jim learns that when in opposition he was bugged by the secret service, he decides to bring in legislation to kerb the bugging, only to find out that he is on the death list of a group of terrorists, and the best way to find them, is by bugging phone lines.

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When Jim learns that when in opposition he was bugged by the secret service, he decides to bring in legislation to kerb the bugging, only to find out that he is on the death list of a group of terrorists, and the best way to find them, is by bugging phone lines.

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S2E2
Doing the Honours
Air date: 02/Mar/1981 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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When Jim learns that he can block civil servant’s honours, he blackmails them into cutting their budgets, but when he hears that he might be in line for an honorary degree, he has to back down.

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When Jim learns that he can block civil servant’s honours, he blackmails them into cutting their budgets, but when he hears that he might be in line for an honorary degree, he has to back down.

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S2E1
The Compassionate Society
Air date: 23/Feb/1981 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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When Jim learns that a brand new hospital still has no medical staff, but hundreds of civil servants working there, he proposes that half of the civil servants be sacked and use the money saved to open wards with medical staff.

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When Jim learns that a brand new hospital still has no medical staff, but hundreds of civil servants working there, he proposes that half of the civil servants be sacked and use the money saved to open wards with medical staff.

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Season 1 · Series 1
7 episode(s) · Air date: 25/Feb/1980
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The newly appointed Minister for Administrative Affairs, the Rt Hon. Jim Hacker MP, finds even the corridors of power congested by the machinations of his Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey and his Civil Service cohorts.

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The newly appointed Minister for Administrative Affairs, the Rt Hon. Jim Hacker MP, finds even the corridors of power congested by the machinations of his Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey and his Civil Service cohorts.

S1E7
Jobs for the Boys
Air date: 07/Apr/1980 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
Summary

Jim goes on radio to support the Solihull project a Government, union and private enterprise building scheme, that he has inherited from the last administration, but unknown to him the project is close to bankruptcy, Sir Humphrey hopes to save the deal by offering a quango to the director of the bank involved

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Jim goes on radio to support the Solihull project a Government, union and private enterprise building scheme, that he has inherited from the last administration, but unknown to him the project is close to bankruptcy, Sir Humphrey hopes to save the deal by offering a quango to the director of the bank involved

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S1E6
The Right to Know
Air date: 31/Mar/1980 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Jim faces rebellion at home and in the office over the removal of protected status from a badger habitat, while he tries to circumvent Sir Humphrey’s efforts to keep him ignorant of things.

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Jim faces rebellion at home and in the office over the removal of protected status from a badger habitat, while he tries to circumvent Sir Humphrey’s efforts to keep him ignorant of things.

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S1E5
The Writing on the Wall
Air date: 24/Mar/1980 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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A rumour starts that Jim’s department is about to be axed. So with help from Sir Humphrey, they try and defeat the Prime Minister’s plans.

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A rumour starts that Jim’s department is about to be axed. So with help from Sir Humphrey, they try and defeat the Prime Minister’s plans.

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S1E4
Big Brother
Air date: 17/Mar/1980 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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When the Government is planning to introduce a national database, Jim wants to bring in safe guards, but Sir Humphrey stalls until with some help from the opposition, Jim gets his way.

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When the Government is planning to introduce a national database, Jim wants to bring in safe guards, but Sir Humphrey stalls until with some help from the opposition, Jim gets his way.

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S1E3
The Economy Drive
Air date: 10/Mar/1980 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Jim Hacker is determined to reduce the Civil Service, but he is frustrated by Sir Humphrey, and the only numbers he can alter are the numbers of tea ladies.

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Jim Hacker is determined to reduce the Civil Service, but he is frustrated by Sir Humphrey, and the only numbers he can alter are the numbers of tea ladies.

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S1E2
The Official Visit
Air date: 03/Mar/1980 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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When the leader of an African country is killed in a coup, his successor, who is an old friend of Jim’s, comes in his place. They negotiate a £50 million deal to help buy oil exploration equipment.

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When the leader of an African country is killed in a coup, his successor, who is an old friend of Jim’s, comes in his place. They negotiate a £50 million deal to help buy oil exploration equipment.

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S1E1
Open Government
Air date: 25/Feb/1980 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Jim Hacker retains his seat in the election and is given a cabinet post in the new government He meets the permanent secretary for his department Sir Humphrey Appleby but Jim decides to change the way things are done in the civil service so Sir Humphrey sets out to stop him

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Jim Hacker retains his seat in the election and is given a cabinet post in the new government He meets the permanent secretary for his department Sir Humphrey Appleby but Jim decides to change the way things are done in the civil service so Sir Humphrey sets out to stop him

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Season 0 · Specials
3 episode(s) · Air date: 27/Dec/1982
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S0E3
Yes, Real Prime Minister (AKA The Thatcher Sketch)
Air date: 20/Jan/1984 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 2 min
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Margaret Thatcher wrote the sketch in honour of the show being presented with an award from Mary Whitehouse’s National Viewers’ And Listeners’ Association at an event commemorated on the cover of the satirical magazine Private Eye. Being the PM at the time and writing the sketch, of course she made sure that it co-starred herself…as herself.

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Margaret Thatcher wrote the sketch in honour of the show being presented with an award from Mary Whitehouse’s National Viewers’ And Listeners’ Association at an event commemorated on the cover of the satirical magazine Private Eye. Being the PM at the time and writing the sketch, of course she made sure that it co-starred herself…as herself.

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Party Games (Christmas Special)
Air date: 17/Dec/1984 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 61 min
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The seasonal festivities at the Departmental offices of the Ministry of Administrative Affairs are overshadowed by rumours of a Cabinet reshuffle.

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The seasonal festivities at the Departmental offices of the Ministry of Administrative Affairs are overshadowed by rumours of a Cabinet reshuffle.

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Paul Eddington
Paul Eddington
Jim Hacker
Nigel Hawthorne
Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Humphrey Appleby
Derek Fowlds
Derek Fowlds
Bernard Woolley
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Diana Hoddinott
Annie Hacker
John Nettleton
John Nettleton
Sir Arnold Robinson
John Savident
John Savident
Frederick Jaeger
Frederick Jaeger
Richard Vernon
Richard Vernon
Ivor Roberts
Ivor Roberts
John Barron
John Barron
Jerome Willis
Jerome Willis
Nigel Stock
Nigel Stock
Eleanor Bron
Eleanor Bron
Ian Lavender
Ian Lavender
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Neil Fitzwiliam
Frank Weisel
Tenniel Evans
Tenniel Evans
Graeme Garden
Graeme Garden
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Stephen Tate

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Peter Whitmore
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Stuart Allen
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Sydney Lotterby
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Antony Jay
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Jonathan Lynn
Jonathan Lynn
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