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Yes, Prime Minister

★ 8.3 · 1986-01-09 · 3 Seasons · PG · Comedy
Yes, Prime Minister

Cast

Paul Eddington

Paul Eddington

Jim Hacker

Derek Fowlds

Derek Fowlds

Bernard Woolley

Nigel Hawthorne

Nigel Hawthorne

Humphrey Appleby

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Deborah Norton

Dorothy Wainwright

D

Diana Hoddinott

Annie Hacker

John Nettleton

John Nettleton

Arnold Robinson

Episodes

1

The Grand Design

With his finger now on the nuclear button, Hacker plans his first act as Prime Minister to be a radical new defence policy.

29m
2

The Ministerial Broadcast

Jim is coached in the world of show business as he prepares to address the nation on his defence policy.

28m
3

The Smoke Screen

Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.

29m
4

The Key

Office politics take precedence over national issues when Sir Humphrey and Bernard fall out with each other after Jim tries to restrict Sir Humphrey’s access to №10.

29m
5

A Real Partnership

Sir Humphrey tries to get his scheduled pay raise even though increases for M.P.s have been put on hold for budgetary reasons.

28m
6

A Victory for Democracy

Jim must take action to avert a Marxist takeover of a Commonwealth island nation despite the efforts of the Foreign Office to keep him ignorant.

30m
7

The Bishop’s Gambit

Jim has to choose a new bishop but doesn’t like either the Church or Sir Humphrey’s choices.

29m
8

One of Us

Hacker threatens to place Sir Humphrey on leave while a security inquiry looks into why he cleared a confessed Soviet spy many years earlier, so Sir Humphrey retaliates with a dog in distress on Salisbury plain.

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Man Overboard

Sir Humphrey makes Jim suspicious of the Minister of Employment when he needs the P.M.’s support in opposing a plan to shift military personnel from the south to the north of England.

29m
2

Official Secrets

Jim considers approving the publication of his predecessor’s memoirs, but it becomes a plumber’s nightmare as a series of leaks spring up.

29m
3

A Diplomatic Incident

Jim uses the occasion of his predecessor’s state funeral to negotiate with the French over the conditions of the Channel Tunnel.

29m
4

A Conflict of Interest

Hacker and Sir Humphrey clash over the appointment of the governor of the Bank of England and the cover up of a banking scandal in the City.

30m
5

Power to the People

Sir Humphrey makes a very strange ally out of the formidable Agnes Moorhouse, a radical political reformer from a London council, in his efforts to stop Hacker’s plans to make local government more democratic.

30m
6

A Patron of the Arts

Sir Humphrey works against Hacker over the issues of funding the National Theater when the P.M. asks for help containing criticism from the Theater’s director.

29m
7

The National Education Service

Sir Humphrey faces a conflict of interest when Hacker devises a plan to improve educational standards by abolishing the Department of Education and Science.

29m
8

The Tangled Web

Sir Humphrey has to decide if he will support the P.M. or inform Parliament when Hacker denies knowledge of a wiretap authorized by his office without his knowledge.

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