Yes Minister

SWR, 11.01.1987Original: BBC Two, 25.02.1980

A bedrock programme in the UK comedy structure, Yes Minister embodied the early 1980s attitude to authority and politics as a gently hypocritical world filled with doubletalk.Yes Minister remains one of the most influential sitcoms of its time, as witness its huge success, many awards ...

SWR, 18.01.1987Original: BBC Two, 03.03.1980

SWR, 25.01.1987Original: BBC Two, 10.03.1980

SWR, 01.02.1987Original: BBC Two, 17.03.1980

SWR, 08.02.1987Original: BBC Two, 24.03.1980

The Minister's frustrations with the civil service continue when Sir Humphrey, at his bureaucratic best, doesn't quite deliver the policy paper the Minister is seeking. Hacker wants to announce a cut of 200,000 civil servants and so decides to write the paper himself ...

SWR, 15.02.1987Original: BBC Two, 31.03.1980

SWR, 22.02.1987Original: BBC Two, 07.04.1980

The Minister goes on the BBC to extol the virtues of a public-private partnership project but when he learns that the private firm involved may soon go bankrupt, it is up to Sir Humphrey to see exactly what can be done to salvage the situation. He approaches a banker, Sir Desmond Glazer, who also ...