Name: Yes, Prime Minister
Released: 1986-01-09T08:00:00.000Z
Cast: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds

TV Show · Comedy · Classics

True to the law that says people rise to the level of their incompetence, James Hacker MP, Minister for Administrative Affairs, has ascended to the highest political office in the land.

1986 · 29m

Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds

Director Sydney Lotterby, Peter Whitmore

EPISODE 1

The Grand Design

Jim Hacker considers cancelling the Trident program after discovering some interesting facts about the UK's defense system.

23m
EPISODE 2

The Ministerial Broadcast

Hacker prepares to make his first broadcast as prime minister and finds it is not so easy to speak on camera.

24m
EPISODE 3

The Smoke Screen

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.

24m
EPISODE 4

The Key

Dorothy Wainwright, the PM's political adviser, tells Jim that he is letting Humphrey become too dominant.

24m
EPISODE 5

A Real Partnership

The government runs into a financial crisis just as MPs are due for a pay rise.

22m
EPISODE 6

A Victory for Democracy

Jim Hacker begins to wonder whether the government runs the Foreign Office, or vice versa.

20m