Top billed cast

1. 

   Paul Eddington

   Jim Hacker

2. 

   Nigel Hawthorne

   Sir Humphrey Appleby

3. 

   Derek Fowlds

   Bernard Woolley

4. 

   Diana Hoddinott

   Annie Hacker

5. 

   John Nettleton

   Sir Arnold Robinson

6. 

   Neil Fitzwiliam

   Frank Weisel

7. 

   John Savident

8. 

   John Barron

9. 

   Richard Vernon

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Current Season

Season 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.

Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-02-23

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 th...read the rest

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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Yes Minister

Keywords

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