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 19 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2025.
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Yes, Minister
Political sitcom. Jim Hacker has to balance conflicting moral demands when he travels to Qumran to ratify a British electronics firm's contract.
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A normally efficient local council is late with some paperwork, and Sir Humphrey wants to make an example of them.
Satirical political sitcom. Jim Hacker takes part in a television interview on local civil defence - but his interrogator is extremely tenacious.
Sitcom about a government minister and the manipulative civil service advisers who surround him. Jim wants to see more women in higher posts, but Sir Humphrey does not agree.
Series 2
Sitcom about a government minister. Hacker must choose between toeing the party line and doing what the civil service want him to do.
Jim Hacker makes a rash promise to save a popular city farm from closure, but he needs Sir Humphrey's help.
Jim Hacker is upset by rumours of a cabinet reshuffle and decides to take drastic action to keep his post.
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.