Episode Data

Yes, Prime Minister

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Season 0

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  6: Nigel Hawthorne Tribute

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  7: Jonathan Lynn Interview

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  9: Yes Real Prime Minister

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  10: The Funny side of Christmas

  Prime Minister Hacker tries to record his Christmas message.

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  11: The View from Whitehall

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  12: Best Sitcom

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  13: Comic Relief

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  14: Comedy Connections

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  15: Commercials

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  1: Paul Eddington A Life Well Lived

• _{Monday, December 17th, 1984}

  5: Party Games

  Series opener as Jim Hacker rises to the position of Prime Minister.

• _{Thursday, January 9th, 1986}

  3: BBC Breakfast Time Cabinet Ministers Interview

• _{Monday, January 13th, 1986}

  2: Paul Eddington Interview

  Wogan Talk Show

• _{Friday, December 25th, 1987}

  4: Christmas Morning with Noel Show

• _{Sunday, December 26th, 1999}

  8: A short history of Yes Minister

  DVD Extra

Season 1

• _{Thursday, January 9th, 1986}

  1: The Grand Design

  Jim Hacker considers cancelling the Trident programme after discovering some interesting facts about the UK's defence system.

• _{Thursday, January 16th, 1986}

  2: The Ministerial Broadcast

  Jim is coached in the world of show business as he prepares to address the nation on his defence policy.

• _{Thursday, January 23rd, 1986}

  3: The Smoke Screen

  Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.

• _{Thursday, January 30th, 1986}

  4: The Key

  Office politics take precedence over national issues when Sir Humphrey and Bernard fall out with each other after Jim tries to restrict Sir Humphrey's access to No 10.

• _{Thursday, February 6th, 1986}

  5: A Real Partnership

  Sir Humphrey tries to get his scheduled pay raise even though increases for MPs have been put on hold for budgetary reasons.

• _{Thursday, February 13th, 1986}

  6: A Victory for Democracy

  Jim must take action to avert a Marxist takeover of a Commonwealth island nation despite the efforts of the Foreign Office to keep him ignorant.

• _{Thursday, February 20th, 1986}

  7: The Bishop's Gambit

  Jim has to choose a new bishop but doesn't like either the Church or Sir Humphrey's choices.

• _{Thursday, February 27th, 1986}

  8: One of Us

  Hacker threatens to place Sir Humphrey on leave while a security inquiry looks into why he cleared a confessed Soviet spy many years earlier, so Sir Humphrey retaliates with a dog in distress on Salisbury plain.

Season 2

• _{Thursday, December 3rd, 1987}

  1: Man Overboard

  Sir Humphrey makes Jim suspicious of the Minister of Employment when he needs the PM's support in opposing a plan to shift military personnel from the south to the north of England.

• _{Thursday, December 10th, 1987}

  2: Official Secrets

  Jim considers approving the publication of his predecessor's memoirs, but it becomes a plumber's nightmare as a series of leaks spring up.

• _{Thursday, December 17th, 1987}

  3: A Diplomatic Incident

  Jim uses the occasion of his predecessor's state funeral to negotiate with the French over the conditions of the channel tunnel.

• _{Thursday, December 24th, 1987}

  4: A Conflict of Interest

  Hacker and Sir Humphrey clash over the appointment of the governor of the Bank of England and the cover up of a banking scandal in the City.

• _{Thursday, December 31st, 1987}

  5: Power to the People

  Sir Humphrey makes a very strange ally out of the formidable Agnes Moorhouse, a radical political reformer from a London council, in his efforts to stop Hacker's plans to make local government more democratic.

• _{Friday, January 1st, 1988}

  6: The Patron of the Arts

  Sir Humphrey works against Hacker over the issues of funding the National Theatre when the PM asks for help containing criticism from the Theatre's director.

• _{Friday, January 8th, 1988}

  7: The National Education Service

  Sir Humphrey faces a conflict of interest when Hacker devises a plan to improve educational standards by abolishing the Department of Education and Science.

• _{Thursday, January 28th, 1988}

  8: The Tangled Web

  Sir Humphrey has to decide if he will support the PM or inform Parliament when Hacker denies knowledge of a wiretap authorized by his office without his knowledge.