Yes Minister

Yes, Minister: Sir Humphrey has all the solutions

As the classic political sitcom takes to the West End stage, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn imagine what Sir Humphrey would make of Whitehall today.

Video: Yes Prime Minister becomes West End hit

The popular 1980's political satire has been revived for the stage. It stars David Haig as the Prime Minister and Henry Goodman as his right hand man.

Your next box set: Yes Minister

Before The Thick of It, there was another political sitcom filled with all the same rivalries, schemings and conspiracies - if not the swearing. And 30 years on Yes Minister still seems fresh.

Another view on Yes, Prime Minister

In these rougher times the affable blundering of Jim Hacker has given way to the desperate scheming of Hacker mark II.

Yes, Prime Minister, at the Chichester Festival Theatre

Twenty-three years after they wrote the final episode of Yes, Prime Minister, the show's creators Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn have put their characters into a stage play. Is that what Sir Humphrey Appleby might term "a brave decision"?

'Yes, Prime Minister' back on stage after 23 year gap

Onstage at Chichester Festival Theatre, there is a remarkable case of art impeccably imitating life.

It is the first stage version of Yes, Prime Minister, written by the creators of the hit 1980s TV sitcom.

Yes, Prime Minister: greatest comeback since Lib-Dems

Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey have returned. Why? One of the writers who created them explains.

nspired election day programming: a Yes, Prime Minister marathon. In a climate in which British political satire is defined by The Thick Of It, this may now appear somewhat polite. However, once you attune (or re-attune) yourself to a Whitehall sitcom in which nobody swears, the wry, waspish humour bites with more lasting venom than Malcolm Tucker's rants, and its insights into the workaday reality of politics remain exquisitely astute, some even more so in retrospect: the episode in which they agonise over intervening in a war on a fictional island predicts with unnerving accuracy the mid-90s bungling over Bosnia.

Watch: Sir Humphrey returns

Readers who caught last night's Newsnight would have been treated to something rather unexpected: the return to our screens of Sir Humphrey Appleby.

Memo to the Minister: Sir Humphrey returns

BBC Comedy producer Jonathan Harvey explains why Sir Antony Jay, co-writer of classic political comedies Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, has resurrected the master of obfuscation and manipulation Sir Humphrey Appleby for Newsnight's Election 2010 campaign coverage.