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Overview

User Rating:
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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 full episode list
Release Date:
25 February 1980 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
James Hacker is the British Minister for Administrative Affairs. He tries to do something and cut government waste... more
Awards:
6 wins & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Nigel Hawthorne Dies At 72
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 26 December 2001)

User Comments:
Should be requirement for any political science degree more

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 4 of 22)
Paul Eddington ... James Hacker (22 episodes, 1980-1984)
Nigel Hawthorne ... Sir Humphrey Appleby (22 episodes, 1980-1984)
Derek Fowlds ... Bernard Woolley (22 episodes, 1980-1984)
Diana Hoddinott ... Annie Hacker (10 episodes, 1980-1984)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
30 min (21 episodes) | 60 min (1 episode)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Finland:K-3 (2001) | Australia:G | Singapore:PG | UK:PG

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Trivia:
The British Film Institute (BFI) named this as one of the top ten television programmes of all time. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: During the train sequence in "The Official Visit", a close-up shows that the warning notice on the wall is written in gibberish. more
Quotes:
[talking on the phone about the arrangements for an international conference]
Bernard Woolley: Have the countries in alphabetical order? Oh no, we can't do that, we'd put Iraq next to Iran.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Comedy Connections: To the Manor Born (#4.5)" (2006) more

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15 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
Should be requirement for any political science degree, 7 September 2001
Author: Sanatan Rai (sanatan@gmail.com) from Stanford, California, the USA

Yes Minister is Britain after three hundred years of Democracy.

As an assessment of Democracy it is hard to surpass, and so I believe that every one studying for a degree in political science should watch this serial, or better still, read the books.

I watched this programme with my parents who are civil servants (in India), and they tell me that every bit is true.

If one had to nitpick, then I should observe that the initial episodes had more of a serious strain than the later ones. They are better because they concentrate on the politics, rather than on the comedy as is the case in the later episodes. Yes Minister became massively popular very quickly, and so the authors naturally tried to enhance its comic appeal. The last few episodes are a bit feeble in comparison to the initial ones, though they are, of course, still much, much better than any other television comedy.

Crossman's diaries are the real antecedents of this programme, and some of the incidents, such as moving the contents of the in tray to the out tray come directly from Crossman.

This is the best programme on television that I have seen, and the the standard by which one should judge all others.

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