Jim hackers premiership is falling apart when a saviour appears kumranistan. Supplemental materials include a documentary on the series star nigel. Click here and start watching the full episode in seconds. If you want to know how a government works and the inertia in it, this is the goto series. Yes minister s01e1 open government video dailymotion. S1e1 yes minister open government thomas poundstone.
With his party now ready to form the government, jim hacker anxiously awaits a call from the prime minister offering him a cabinet post. All 38 episodes are written by antony jay and jonathan lynn and last from 30 minutes per episode. Hackers plan to aid a financially troubled soccer club leads to a debate with sir humphrey over the purpose of government subsidies. In reality, of course, it and the minister were run by the senior civil servants in the department, namely the permanent secretary sir humphrey appleby.
The place of action is initially the office of a minister and in the sequel series 10 downing street, the workplace of the prime minister. This box set contains every episode of the awardwinning british sitcom yes, minister. Sir humphrey throws sir frank under the bus yes prime minister duration. Perhaps he can find a way to make the minister abandon the policy. Mar 12, 2020 a scene from british sitcom yes minister has gone viral for predicting boris johnsons response to the coronavirus pandemic. Favorited this series has been favorited by 169 people.
However, he has not accounted for sir humphrey appleby, his permanent under secretary. Sitcom about a british government minister and the advisers who surround him. This is a list of yes minister and yes, prime minister episodes. Exclusive dennis rodman and harlem globetrotters in north korea full game. Find out when yes, prime minister is on tv, including series 1episode 4.
An awardwinning cynical journalist, lloyd vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon fred rogers. Yes minister series and episode guides tv from radiotimes. Yes minister is a political satire british sitcom written by antony jay and jonathan lynn. Watch yes minister s01e1 open government voyage 1 on dailymotion. This single episode, performed as a christmas special episode in 1984, serves as the connection between the highly acclaimed show yes, minister and the subsequent series, yes, prime minister. The english soundtrack is rendered in dolby digital stereo. The series centres on the ineffective and selfaggrandising minister for administrative affairs, jim hacker, the somewhatmachiavellian civil servant, sir humphrey appleby, and their fight over who truly runs their department. Yes prime minister season 2 episode 4 a conflict of interest. Yes prime minister season 2 episode 4 a conflict of interest by aja keviin. Yes minister series 1, episode 4 big brother british comedy guide. The sitcom was first broadcast over three seven episode seasons between 1980 and 1984. All but one of the episodes lasted half an hour, and almost all ended with a variation of the title of the series spoken as the answer to a. Having worked around government circles and having friends that were in government a lot of this series is so true to life it is unbelievable, really good.
It used to be said there were two kinds of chairs to go with two kinds of minister. Sir humphrey is suspected to be a russian spy yes prime minister by british comedy. Bbc two sitcom about the inner workings of government. May, 2017 yes minister is one of the most seminal british political satires, remaining profoundly relevant even decades after it first aired. This includes a onehour special that aired in 1984. The right honorable james hacker has landed the plum job of cabinet minister to the department of administration. Set principally in the private office of a british cabinet minister in the department of administrative affairs in whitehall, yes minister follows the ministerial career of the rt. Split over three seven episode series, it was first transmitted on bbc2 from 1980 to 1984. Yes minister was a tv series running on the bbc between 1980 and 1988, set in the fictional department of administrative affairs and nominally run by the minister jim hacker.
Yes minister s01e3 the economy drive video dailymotion. Watch yes, minister online full episodes of season 4 to 1. Yes, minister is a british television sitcom based around the workings of the british government and the power battles taking place between elected officials and administrative staff. Episode 2 of 8 jim hacker crosses swords with sir humphrey over civil liberties. When the call does come, he is named minister of administrative affairs. Yes minister s02e7 a question of loyalty video dailymotion. Episodes from the bbc s political sitcom, adapted for radio.
Hacker becomes privy to disturbing information concerning the sale of british arms to terrorists. Runtimes 30 minutes 21 episodes 2 minutes 1 episode 60 minutes 1 episode genres comedy. At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some longneeded reforms, or so he thinks. A sequel, yes, prime minister, lasted 16 episodes and ran from 1986 to 1988.
Pruning the civil service is a great political platform for the minister but the idea is deeply upsetting to sir humphrey appleby. Watch yes minister s01e4 big brother voyage 1 on dailymotion. Yes minister s1 e1 open government dailymotion video. Wonderful acting by paul eddington minister jim hacker, nigel hawthorne humphrey appleby, derek fowlds bernard woolley 2. Yes, prime minister series 1, episode 1 crisis at the.
Bbc radio 4 extra yes minister, series 1, big brother. Jims latest drive to slim down the civil service has won favour with both the pm and cabinet colleagues, but sir humphrey is bitterly opposed to the plans. The 1980s series, a satirical show written by antony jay and jonathan. Series 1, episode 1 crisis at the summit yes, prime minister returns in a contemporary setting and unsurprisingly there is trouble afoot for the fraught pm. Musical chairs is the game for the ministrys christmas party when both the cabinet secretary and the prime minister announce they are retiring. Jul 28, 2017 watch yes minister s01e3 the economy drive voyage 1 on dailymotion. List of yes minister and yes, prime minister episodes.
Aug 24, 2016 following the news of yes minister writer antony jays death at the age of 86, we look back at ten of the most memorable moments from the series 1 jim hacker takes office in the political sitcom. All but one of the episodes lasted half an hour, and almost all ended with a variation. The dates listed are when a particular episode was first transmitted on bbc2. Nov, 2016 sir humphrey throws sir frank under the bus yes prime minister duration. Each is presented in the original broadcast aspect ratio of 1.
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