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.
EPISODE 1
The Grand Design
Jim Hacker considers cancelling the Trident program after discovering some interesting facts about the UK's defense system.
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.
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.
EPISODE 4
The Key
Dorothy Wainwright, the PM's political adviser, tells Jim that he is letting Humphrey become too dominant.
EPISODE 5
A Real Partnership
The government runs into a financial crisis just as MPs are due for a pay rise.
EPISODE 6
A Victory for Democracy
Jim Hacker begins to wonder whether the government runs the Foreign Office, or vice versa.
Paul Eddington
Nigel Hawthorne
Derek Fowlds
Deborah Norton
Diana Hoddinott
Henry Goodman
Sydney Lotterby
Peter Whitmore
Antony Jay
