Yes Minister: 21 + 2 specials Yes, Prime Minister: 16 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers
Stuart Allen Sydney Lotterby Peter Whitmore
Camera setup
Multi-camera
Running time
30 minutes (with a one-hour-long Christmas episode and several short specials)[1]
Original release
Network
BBC2
Release
25 February 1980 (1980-02-25) – 28 January 1988 (1988-01-28)[2]
Related
Yes, Prime Minister (2013 TV series)
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Yes Minister is a British political satire sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn. Comprising three seven-episode series, it was first transmitted on BBC2 from 1980 to 1984. A sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran for 16 episodes from 1986 to 1988. 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 question posed by Minister (later, Prime Minister) Jim Hacker. Several episodes were adapted for BBC Radio; the series also spawned a 2010 stage play that led to a new television series on Gold in 2013.
Set principally in the private office of a British cabinet minister in the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in Whitehall, Yes Minister follows the ministerial career of Jim Hacker, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to formulate and enact policy or effect departmental changes are opposed by the British Civil Service, in particular his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne. His Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley, played by Derek Fowlds, is usually caught between the two. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, continued with the same cast and followed Hacker after his unexpected elevation to prime ministerial office.
The series received several BAFTAs and in 2004 was voted sixth in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll. It was the favourite television programme of the then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.[3]
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^Lewisohn, Mark. "Yes, Prime Minister". BBC Comedy Guide. Archived from the original on 17 March 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
^Cockerell, Michael (1988). Live from Number 10: The Inside Story of Prime Ministers and Television. London: Faber and Faber. p. 288. ISBN 0-571-14757-7.
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