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Yes Minister (1980)

First aired February 25, 198030m/ep3 seasons · 21 epsEnded
8.3

162 votes

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Overview

Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.

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Status

Ended

Language

English

Type

Scripted

Last Air Date

December 23, 1982

Networks

BBC Two

Production

BBC

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CinemaSerf

9.0

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…

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