Yes, Minister
Yes, Prime Minister
an Episode Guide
by Donna Lemaster
Last updated:
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:00
Yes, Minister
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| aired from: Feb 1980 to: Jan 1988 | 38 eps | BBC1 | 30 min | mono | ________________ |
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Newly appointed cabinet minister Jim Hacker tries to run his ministry while the civil servants try to run him, and the civil servants score the first points when Jim tries to reveal an overseas sales contract for new computer equipment arranged by his predecessor.
b: 25 Feb 80 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim scrambles to stay on top of a power struggle in an African nation whose leader is due to pay an official visit to negotiate the purchase of offshore drilling equipment.
b: 3 Mar 80 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim attempts to implement some economy measures but finds Sir Humphrey blocking every path.
b: 10 Mar 80 w: ______________ d: ______________Sir Humphrey tries to stall when Jim decides to introduce privacy safeguards into the government's national computer database.
b: 17 Mar 80 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim and Sir Humphrey are forced to work together when #10 takes Jim's personnel cutting measures seriously.
b: 24 Mar 80 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim faces rebellion at home and in the office over the removal of protected status from a badger habitat, while he tries to circumvent Sir Humphrey's efforts to keep him ignorant of things.
b: 31 Mar 80 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim speaks out in favor of a government project endangered by a financial collapse, and finds the only solution to his embarrassing position lies in using the Quango system-dispensing the ministerial patronage jobs he's been deploring.
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Jim and Sir Humphrey quarrel over staff cuts, particularly the 300 person administrative staff in a brand new hospital that has no medical staff or patients.
b: 23 Feb 81 w: ______________ d: ______________Bernard suggests that Jim hold up the annual honours list recommendations for civil servants until budget cuts are made, and Sir Humphrey retaliates by dangling an honorary doctorate before Jim.
b: 2 Mar 81 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim leads a fight to toughen up the guidelines for electronic surveillance until he learns he's on the death list of a terrorist group currently under investigation.
b: 9 Mar 81 w: ______________ d: ______________Sir Humphrey tries to manipulate Jim into supporting a proposal that should be good economically for the country but unpopular politically.
b: 16 Mar 81 w: ______________ d: ______________Sir Humphrey decides to help Jim retain his position as minister when a Cabinet reshuffle seems imminent.
b: 23 Mar 81 w: ______________ d: ______________Sir Humphrey uses Jim's promise to keep a popular city farm project open to get special permission for an additional nine floors on a proposed skyscraper.
b: 30 Mar 81 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim and Sir Humphrey pass the buck to protect each other when they appear before a select committee investigating charges of waste in Hacker's ministry, until Jim's higher loyalties are called upon.
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Jim decides to promote more women to high civil service positions despite Sir Humphrey's opposition.
b: 11 Nov 82 w: ______________ d: ______________When Jim tackles local council administration and civil defense, he runs afoul of a BBC interviewer.
b: 18 Nov 82 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim uses a costly mistake from Sir Humphrey's past to escape chastising an efficient local council for being late with their paperwork.
b: 25 Nov 82 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim is forced to back down about exposing bribery used to obtain a lucrative foreign contract when Bernard allows a valuable vase from a foreign government to be undervalued so that Mrs. hacker can keep it.
b: 2 Dec 82 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim accepts an unpopular position pushing a transportation bill desired by #10 but opposed by everyone else.
b: 9 Dec 82 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim faces opposition from all sides when he learns that British munitions have been sold to terrorist groups and he decides to start an inquiry into how it happened.
b: 16 Dec 82 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim and Sir Humphrey collide when Jim acts as an MP to sell an art museum in his district to support a popular local soccer club.
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Both the Tory and Labor parties are looking for candidates for Prime Minister, but the civil service backs Jim Hacker, former minister for administrative affairs.
b: 27 Dec 84 w: ______________ d: ______________ NOTE: Bridge to the later series.| Back to TOP of Page |
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Jim learns that as Prime Minister he is responsible for Britain's nuclear weapons.
b: 9 Jan 86 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim is coached in the world of show business as he prepares to address the nation on his defense policy.
b: 16 Jan 86 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.
b: 23 Jan 86 w: ______________ d: ______________Office politics take precedence over national issues when Sir Humphrey and Bernard turn on each other after Jim tries to restrict Sir Humphrey's access to his office.
b: 30 Jan 86 w: ______________ d: ______________Sir Humphrey tries to get his scheduled pay raise even though increases for MPs have been put on hold for budgetary reasons.
b: 6 Feb 86 w: ______________ d: ______________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.
b: 13 Feb 86 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim has to choose a new bishop but doesn't like either the Church or Sir Humphrey's choices.
b: 20 Feb 86 w: ______________ d: ______________Hacker threatens to place Sir Humphrey on leave while s 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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Sir Humphrey makes Jim suspicious of the Minister of Employment when he needs the PM's support in opposing a plan to shift military personnel from the south to the north of England.
b: 3 Dec 87 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim considers approving the publication of his predecessor's memoirs, but it becomes a plumber's nightmare as a series of leaks spring up.
b: 10 Dec 87 w: ______________ d: ______________Jim uses the occasion of his predecessor's state funeral to negotiate with the French over the conditions of the channel tunnel.
b: 17 Dec 87 w: ______________ d: ______________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.
b: 23 Dec 87 w: ______________ d: ______________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.
b: 7 Jan 88 w: ______________ d: ______________Sir Humphrey works against Hacker over the issues of funding the National Theater when the PM asks for help containing criticism from the Theater's director.
b: 14 Jan 88 w: ______________ d: ______________Sir Humphrey faces a conflict of interest when Hacker devises a plan to improve educational standards by abolishing the Department of Education and Science.
b: 21 Jan 88 w: ______________ d: ______________Sir Humphrey has to decide if he will support the PM or inform Parliament when Hacker denies knowledge of a wiretap authorized by his office without his knowledge.
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As part of a Christmas special called "The Funny Side of Christmas" hosted by Frank Muir, there was a 10 minute sketch featuring the cast of Yes, Minister. Other Britcoms were featured in their own segments. This aired on 27 Dec 82.