Yes Minister. Image shows from L to R: James Hacker (Paul Eddington), Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne), Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds). Copyright: BBC
Yes Minister

Yes Minister

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Two
  • 1980 - 1984
  • 22 episodes (3 series)

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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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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