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The New Statesman
1987 · Comedy
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171 votes
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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Season list for Yes Minister
Paul Eddington
Jim Hacker
Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Humphrey Appleby
Derek Fowlds
Bernard Woolley
John Nettleton
Sir Arnold Robinson
John Savident
Frederick Jaeger
Richard Vernon
Ivor Roberts
John Barron
Jerome Willis
Nigel Stock
Eleanor Bron
Ian Lavender
Tenniel Evans
Graeme Garden
Frank Middlemass
Brenda Blethyn
Judy Parfitt
Peter Cellier
Antony Carrick
CinemaSerf
February 23, 2022
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…
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