Yes Minister - BBC2 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide

TV sitcom
BBC Two
1980 - 1984
22 episodes (3 series)

Political satire in which well-meaning MP Jim Hacker has a fast introduction to the world of Whitehall and must then struggle against the Civil Service. Stars Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott and Neil Fitzwiliam

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Yes Minister (1983, Radio 4)

Yes Minister. James Hacker (Paul Eddington). Copyright: BBC

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1980 - 1984

Channel

BBC 2

Episodes

22 (3 series), plus 1 short insert

Stars

Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott and Neil Fitzwiliam

Writers

Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn

Directors

Sydney Lotterby and Peter Whitmore

Producers

Sydney Lotterby and Peter Whitmore

Company

Jim Hacker, Member of Parliament, is appointed to the Cabinet as Minister For Administrative Affairs. There he is introduced to Bernard Woolley, his Principal Private Secretary, and the Civil Service's head of the deparment, Permanent Secretary Humphrey Appleby.

Once ensconced in his ministry, Hacker is forced to fight Appleby, not to mention the Whitehall machine at large, at every turn in order to get his own way - and soon finds that manifesto promises are far harder to keep than anyone might have guessed.