Yes, Prime Minister

If Prime Minister Jim Hacker has a fault (and god knows...), it is that he has ideas. Fortunately his Cabinet Secretary, Sir Humphrey makes sure they never come to fruition. Meanwhile poor Bernard, his Private Secretary, sits uneasily on the fence between them...

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   E1. Man Overboard

   Dec 3, 1987 · 30m

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

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   E2. Official Secrets

   Dec 10, 1987 · 30m

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

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   E3. A Diplomatic Incident

   Dec 17, 1987 · 30m

   Jim uses the occasion of his predecessor’s state funeral to negotiate with the French over the conditions of the Channel Tunnel.

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   E4. A Conflict of Interest

   Dec 24, 1987 · 30m

   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.

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   E5. Power to the People

   Dec 31, 1987 · 30m

   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.

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   E6. The Patron of the Arts

   Jan 1, 1988 · 30m

   Jim Hacker faces embarrassment when Sir Humphrey tells a friend in the arts that the PM's government is planning to cut grants.

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