![]() ![]() Sir Humphrey fights the Employment Secretary's plan to relocate service personnel by casting doubt over the Minister's loyalty. The former head of MI5 is revealed to be a spy (despite Sir Humphrey clearing him), while a dog strays on to Salisbury Plain. Hacker has difficulty discovering if the Foreign Office is there to carry out government policy or vice versa.Ī troubled British nurse in Qumran and a vacant bishopric combine to provide an opportunity for Sir Humphrey. Sir Humphrey has to get through a civil service pay claim while at the same time discrediting its proposer. The PM decides to clip Sir Humphrey's wings when he engages in a territorial battle with Hacker's political advisor. Hacker uses his Health Minister's plan to eliminate smoking as a bluff against the Treasury. Hacker is groomed for his first television broadcast as PM, but Sir Humphrey is more concerned with the content. With his finger now on the nuclear button, Hacker plans his first act as Prime Minister to be a radical new defence policy. The unexpected resignation of the PM prompts a race for the succession, and, as Party Chairman, Hacker is in a key position-and the Civil Service, now headed by Sir Humphrey, has its own agenda. His message was later transcribed and printed in The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book. Sir Humphrey has a special end-of-year message for the Minister, delivered in, even by his standards, an especially circumlocutory style. Sir Humphrey is incensed that Hacker plans to subsidise his local football club by selling a local museum.Ī two-minute Christmas-themed sketch, featuring only Eddington, Hawthorne and Fowlds, was aired on BBC One as part of a 1982 Christmas special titled The Funny Side of Christmas. Hacker faces a moral dilemma when he learns that British bombs are ending up in the hands of Italian terrorists. Hacker is made Transport Supremo - and soon wonders if it is a title worth having. Sir Humphrey doesn't see eye to eye with the Minister's plan for gender equality in the civil service.įallout shelters upset Hacker's crusade to make local authorities responsible for their expenditure.ĭetails of a 1950s defence contract are about to be made public - and Sir Humphrey seems unaccountably nervous.Īfter signing a huge export order in Qumran, Hacker is upset to discover it was obtained through bribery. Hacker and Sir Humphrey are tested by a select committee on their commitment to reducing waste in government expenditure. Hacker vows to keep open a city farm that Sir Humphrey has enabled to be bulldozed to make way for a car park for Inland Revenue inspectors. Hacker wonders who the PM has in mind to fill it. Plans for a new chemical factory hinge on the outcome of a so-called "independent" report.Ī Cabinet reshuffle coincides with a vacancy in Brussels. The Minister is forced to re-appraise his views on bugging and phone tapping after a death threat. Hacker plans to withhold honours for civil servants who do not reduce their budgets. He learns, however, just how powerful the unions are. Hacker is concerned about a brand new, fully staffed hospital that has no patients. Hacker is kept in the dark over a doomed building project, and discovers that it takes two to quango. ![]() The threat of the abolition of the DAA forces Hacker and Sir Humphrey to work together.Ī threatened badger colony demonstrates that Sir Humphrey must be selective in what he tells his Minister. Sir Humphrey drags his feet over the safeguards for a new National Integrated Database. Hacker plans to slim down the civil service - but Sir Humphrey forces him to set a personal example. Jim Hacker welcomes the visit of the new President of Buranda, an old university chum who has his own agenda. The new Minister's idealistic commitment to open the windows of his department faces its first hurdle: Sir Humphrey and the Civil Service. The dates listed are when a particular episode was first transmitted on BBC2. All other episodes were a half-hour in length. This includes a one-hour special that aired in 1984. Thirty-eight episodes were made in total, running from 1980 to 1988. This is a list of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister episodes. ![]()
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