Yes, Prime Minister

James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - No. 10. Could this have possibly have been managed by his trusted Permanent Private Secretary, the formidably political Sir Humphrey Appleby who must move to the “Top Job” in Downing Street to support him, together with his much put upon PPS Bernard Wolley. What could possibly go wrong?

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Antony Jay

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Jonathan Lynn

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Paul Eddington

Jim Hacker

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Nigel Hawthorne

Humphrey Appleby

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Derek Fowlds

Bernard Woolley

Episodes

Specials

5 episodes

S0 E1 · Paul Eddington A Life Well Lived (BBC)

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S0 E2 · Paul Eddington Interviewed by Felicity Kendal

1986-01-13

Wogan Talk Show: Felicity Kendal interviews Paul Eddington

S0 E3 · BBC Breakfast Time Cabinet Ministers Interview

1986-01-09

BBC's Breakfast Time interviewed six former Cabinet Ministers and Jonathan Lynn on how Jim Hacker will fare in Number 10.

S0 E4 · Christmas Morning with Noel Show

1987-12-25

One of many celebrity messages to Noel Edmunds's Christmas Morning with Noel show, which BBC aired on December 25, 1987

S0 E5 · Party Games

1984-12-17

Series opener as Jim Hacker rises to the position of Prime Minister.

Series 1

8 episodes

S1 E1 · The Grand Design

1986-01-09

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

S1 E2 · The Ministerial Broadcast

1986-01-16

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

S1 E3 · The Smoke Screen

1986-01-23

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

S1 E4 · The Key

1986-01-30

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.

S1 E5 · A Real Partnership

1986-02-06

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

S1 E6 · A Victory for Democracy

1986-02-13

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.

S1 E7 · The Bishop’s Gambit

1986-02-20

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

S1 E8 · One of Us

1986-02-27

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.

Series 2

8 episodes

S2 E1 · Man Overboard

1987-12-03

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.

S2 E2 · Official Secrets

1987-12-10

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

S2 E3 · A Diplomatic Incident

1987-12-17

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

S2 E4 · A Conflict of Interest

1987-12-24

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.

S2 E5 · Power to the People

1987-12-31

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.

S2 E6 · The Patron of the Arts

1988-01-01

Jim Hacker faces embarrassment when Sir Humphrey tells a friend in the arts that the PM's government is planning to cut grants.

S2 E7 · The National Education Service

1988-01-08

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

S2 E8 · The Tangled Web

1988-01-28

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.