Yes Minister - Season One

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds

Directors: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds

Country: UK

Year: 1980

Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC Television between 1980–1982 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran from 1986 to 1988. In total there were 38 episodes—of which all but one lasted half an hour. Several episodes were adapted for BBC Radio, and a stage play was produced in 2010.

Yes Minister - Season Two

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds

Directors: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds

Country: UK

Year: 1981

Set principally in the private office of a British government cabinet minister in the (fictional) Department for Administrative Affairs in Whitehall (the sequel was set in the Prime Minister's offices at 10 Downing Street), the series follows the senior ministerial career of The Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to formulate and enact legislation or effect departmental changes are opposed by the will of the British Home Civil Service, in particular his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne. His Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley, played by Derek Fowlds, is usually cau...

Yes Minister - Season Three

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds

Directors: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds

Country: UK

Year: 1982

A huge critical and popular success, the series received a number of awards, including several BAFTAs and in 2004 came sixth in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll. It was the favourite television programme of the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.