Jim Hacker considers cancelling the Trident program after discovering some interesting facts about the UK's defense system.
Hacker prepares to make his first broadcast as prime minister and finds it is not so easy to speak on camera.
Jim sees how he can use the health minister's desire to abolish smoking through taxation to stop Treasury opposition to his plans for tax cuts.
Dorothy Wainwright, the PM's political adviser, tells Jim that he is letting Humphrey become too dominant.
The government runs into a financial crisis just as MPs are due for a pay rise.
Jim Hacker begins to wonder whether the government runs the Foreign Office, or vice versa.
Paul Eddington
Prime Minister Hacker
Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Humphrey Appleby
Derek Fowlds
Bernard Woolley
Deborah Norton
Dorothy Wainwright
Diana Hoddinott
Annie Hacker