Yes Minister (1980)
Yes Minister (1980)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Paul Eddington
Jim Hacker
Nigel Hawthorne
Humphrey Appleby
Derek Fowlds
Bernard Woolley
Jonathan Lynn
Creator / Writer
Antony Jay
Creator / Writer
Sydney Lotterby
Producer / Director
Arthur Cox
George - Jim's Driver
John Pennington
Peter - Civil Servant
Peter Whitmore
Director / Producer
Stuart Allen
Director
Richard Vernon
Nigel Stock
Ian Lavender
Tenniel Evans
Peter Cellier
John Savident
Doug Fisher
John D. Collins
Graeme Garden
Ivor Roberts
Robert East
Antony Carrick
Stephen Tate
Robert McKenzie
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 25, 1980
StatusEnded
Seasons3
Episodes21
Running Time30m
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
Wiki.
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 upon the retirement of the previous officeholder.
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.