Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds

Director: Sydney Lotterby

Summary: The complete first series of the TV comedy 'Yes Prime Minister'. 8 episodes including: 'The Grand Design', 'The Ministerial Broadcast', 'The Smoke Screen', 'The Key', 'A Real Partnership', 'A Victory For Democracy', 'The Bishop's Gambit' and 'One Of Us'.

The first series of YES, PRIME MINISTER sees the new clueless Prime Minister Jim Hacker fumbling through the job with his scheming Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey and the long-suffering Bernard.
Episodes include:
The Grand Design
The Ministerial Broadcast
The Smoke Screen
The Key
A Real Partnership
A Victory Democracy
The Bishop's Gambit
One of Us

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Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's superb sitcom Yes, Prime Ministerentered 10 Downing Street with Jim Hacker now Prime Minister of Britain, following a campaign to "Save the British Sausage". Whether tackling defence ("The Grand Design"), local government ("Power to the People") or the National Education Service, all of Jim Hacker's bold plans for reform generally come to nothing, thanks to the machinations of Nigel Hawthorne's complacent Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey (Jeeves to Hacker's Wooster) who opposes any action of any sort on the part of the PM altogether. This is usually achieved by discreet horse-trading. In "One of Us", for instance, Hacker relents from implementing defence cuts when he is presented with the embarrassingly large bill he ran up in a vote-catching mission to rescue a stray dog on an army firing range. Only in "The Tangled Web", the final episode of Series 2, does the PM at last turn the tables on Sir Humphrey. Paul Eddington is a joy as Hacker, whether in mock-Churchillian mode or visibly cowering whenever he is congratulated on a "courageous" idea. Jay and Lynn's script, meanwhile, is a dazzlingly Byzantine exercise in wordplay, wittily reflecting the verbiage-to-substance ratio of politics. Ironically, Yes, Prime Ministeris an accurate depiction of practically all political eras except its own, the 1980s, when Thatcher successfully carried out a radical programme regardless of harrumphing senior civil servants. --David Stubbs

Aspect Ratio:	4:3
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Release Date:	October 4, 2004
Runtime:	240 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B B C D V D 1365
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Series, Prime, Yes, Minister, Tv, Complete
Genre:	Comedy