Yes, Minister
Yes, Minister is a TV show on BBC4. The corridors of power. The classic comedy that shone the spotlight on the Machiavellian machinations of government, starring Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 12 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2025.
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Yes, Minister
Jim Hacker finds himself in the middle of a row over the British Chemical Corporation.
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Jim Hacker is shocked to discover that his department is responsible for supplying all of the government's electronic surveillance equipment.
Sir Humphrey has to combat Jim's economies, including cuts on profitable overseas students at his old college and linking civil servants' honours with achieving cuts.
Political sitcom. Minister for administrative affairs Jim Hacker struggles to cut administrative staff in the Health Service.
Series 1
Sir Humphrey is being very evasive about a departmental project that has run into trouble.
Sir Humphrey prevents Jim from getting to know too much about how the Department of Administrative Affairs operates.
Jim Hacker's campaign against civil service overmanning is too successful. Now his own department faces closure.
Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim tries to implement a privacy safeguard for a new national computer database.
Sitcom about a British government minister. Jim Hacker wants to implement some cost-cutting initiatives - but Sir Humphrey does not approve.
Political sitcom. When Hacker recognises a visiting head of an African nation as a school friend, he does his best to offload some oil rigging gear on him.
First episode of the acclaimed sitcom about an apparently clueless British government minister and the advisers who surround him.
Series 3
Sitcom about a British government minister and his advisers. Rumours of a cabinet reshuffle could spell great things for Jim Hacker.