Yes, Prime Minister
Yes, Prime Minister is a TV show on BBC4. Climbing the greasy pole. Jim Hacker’s in Number 10... but still not quite in control. The classic comedy sequel starring Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 16 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2026.
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Yes, Prime Minister
Jim Hacker decides to abolish the Department of Education and Science to reduce bureaucracy and save money, giving cash directly to schools. Sir Humphrey, of course, is appalled.
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Classic political sitcom. Jim Hacker faces embarrassment when Sir Humphrey tells a bigwig friend in the arts that the government is planning to cut grants.
Classic political sitcom. Jim Hacker meets a local councillor who has radical ideas about local government. The PM likes what he hears, unlike Sir Humphrey.
Classic sitcom. When a scandal breaks in the City, Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey cannot agree on who should be the new governor of the Bank of England.
Classic political sitcom. When Jim Hacker discovers the French are planning some dirty tricks to get political advantage, the PM turns the tables on them.
Classic political sitcom. When Jim Hacker's predecessor decides to publish his memoirs, the PM tries to suppress a chapter in which he appears unfavourably.
Sir Humphrey must stop Jim supporting a plan to move armed service jobs from the south to the north east to ease unemployment.
Series 1
The papers of a recently deceased head of MI5 show that he was, at one stage, spying for Russia. Worse still, he was investigated and cleared by a committee headed by Sir Humphrey.
Classic political comedy. Jim must recommend the appointment of bishops to the Queen, but he is not keen on the two offered by the church.
Classic sitcom about a beleaguered PM. Jim Hacker begins to wonder whether the government runs the Foreign Office, or vice versa.
Classic political sitcom. The government runs into a financial crisis just as MPs are due for a pay rise.
Dorothy Wainwright, the PM's political advisor, tells Jim that he is letting Humphrey become too dominant.
Jim sees how he can use the health minister's desire to abolish smoking through taxation to stop Treasury opposition to his plans for tax cuts.
Hacker prepares to make his first broadcast as prime minister, announcing his grand new defence policy, but he finds it is not so easy to speak on camera.
Jim Hacker considers cancelling the Trident programme after discovering some interesting facts about the UK's defence system.
Series 2, Episode 8 - The Tangled Web
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Classic sitcom. MPs have been complaining about their phones being tapped. Jim Hacker naturally denies this, only to be told by Sir Humphrey that it is in fact true.