Yes, Prime Minister (1986)
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1986 - 1988
- 16 episodes (2 series)
Jim Hacker finds himself suddenly promoted to the position of Prime Minister. Perhaps unfortunately, Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Wooley accompany him upwards. Stars Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott and Deborah Norton
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Tube Talk Gold: Yes, Prime Minister
Ahead of its controversial revamp and return later this month on UKTV's Gold, we've dusted off our DVD collections of the series to remind ourselves just how good it was. We've not been disappointed.
Mayer Nissim, Digital Spy, 12th January 2013Yes, Prime Minister returns to the West End
Britain's appetite for satirising the government has not diminished, as the return of the hit political comedy Yes, Prime Minister proves.
Daisy Bowie-Sell, The Telegraph, 18th June 2012Whitehall: TV fact of fiction?
The fractious relationships in Whitehall's corridors of power were immortalised in the BBC sitcoms Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.
The Guardian, 17th September 2009Yes, Prime Minister (BBC2) is a slight variation of the Bertie Wooster and Jeeves format. The servant rules the roost, and the rooster and the Wooster. Bertie will never wear that gaudy tie, amaze his friends on the banjo, never grow a moustache or marry Bobbie or Stiffie or Nobby or Corky. A shadow no bigger than a butler hangs over all these small attempts to brighten Mayfair life. They would not suit Jeeves.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 4th December 1987The more you watch Yes, Prime Minister (BBC2), the more the pigs look like men and the men like pigs.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 10th January 1986