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Yes Minister( 1980)

TV-MAComedyWar & Politics
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Overview

Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.

  1. Jonathan Lynn

    Creator

  2. Antony Jay

    Creator

Series Cast

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    Paul Eddington

    Jim Hacker

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    Nigel Hawthorne

    Sir Humphrey Appleby

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    Derek Fowlds

    Bernard Woolley

Current Season

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Series 3

1982 | 7 Episodes

Westminster and Whitehall clash again as the Rt Hon. Jim Hacker, the Minister for Administrative Affairs, locks horns with his Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby.

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A review by CinemaSerf

9
Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Feb 23 2022
Jonathan Lynn & Antony Jay have created what has to be one of the sharpest, wittiest comedies ever written. The hugely entertaining characterisations alongside the masterly manipulation of the English language make for a terrifyingly worrying observation on the true nature of "democratic" government and of the chronic ineptitude and incompetence of some/many of our elected representatives. Paul Eddington is superb as the politically naive Minister ("Jim Hacker MP") in the fictional, but perfectly plausible, Ministry of Administrative Affairs - an unimaginably pointless government department tha...

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Facts

Status

Ended

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Type

Scripted

Original Language

English

Keywords

  • england
  • minister
  • politics
  • politician
  • satire
  • british politics
  • sitcom
  • political humor
  • workplace comedy