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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This complete collection includes every episode of the hugely popular political satire Yes Minister Series 1 - 3 (which first aired in 1980 on BBC 2), along with each episode in the subsequent two series of Yes, Prime Minister (which aired from 1986).
Meet the bewildered Rt Hon James Hacker,...
Meet the bewildered Rt Hon James Hacker, his scheming and equivocating Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby and of course, Bernard, the piggy-in-the middle. This great value boxed set contains the complete series one, two and three - every single episode until Jim Hacker rises to become prime minister. Easily the...
The behind-the-scenes story of one of the most successful and admired sitcoms of the 1980s.
In 1977 the BBC commissioned a new satirical sitcom set in Whitehall. Production of its first series was stalled, however, by the death throes of Jim Callaghan's Labour government and the 'Winter of Discontent'; Auntie...
Yes Minister is one of the most popular and critically successful British sitcoms of all time, partly due to its fascinatingly accurate observations of the eternal sparring between Paul Eddington as naïve senior minister, Jim Hacker, and Nigel Hawthorne as infernally cunning Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby.
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Government ministers come and go, but Civil Servants are in the Ministry forever. Therefore it is the job of every responsible Government bureaucrat to ensure that meddling politicians do not rock the boat. Few politicians ever realise that the staff they employ regard them as the enemy.
The full third...
In the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister, James Hacker (Paul Eddington) is the new Minister for Administrative Affairs. However, Hacker meets continual opposition in the form of the tenacious Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne), Permanent Secretary of the Department. And stuck in the middle is private secretary Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds).
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In the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister, James Hacker (Paul Eddington) is the new Minister for Administrative Affairs. However, Hacker meets continual opposition in the form of the tenacious Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne), Permanent Secretary of the Department. And stuck in the middle is private secretary Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds).
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This compendium publication, from the original writer-creators of the television series, Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay, take the scripts of hit satire Yes Minister and novelise them in what pupports to be the diary of Jim Hacker MP, packed with notes from the 'Editor', transcripts of interviews, and copies of...