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Yes Minister (1980-1984) &
Yes Prime Minister (1986-1988) - Complete BBC Box Set |  | | * DVD Edition! * | (7 Disc Set)
 Region 2 PAL Version - Brand New, Factory Sealed DVD Set
US/Canadian buyers please see note below!    These are original and factory sealed.
They are Region 2 PAL and play beautifully on modern Multi-region DVD players.
| DVD FEATURES:
Intros:
Yes Minister
This is the story of the endless battles between the Government in the form of Jim Hacker, a brand new Cabinet Minister and the Civil Service of his department run by Sir Humphrey Appleby. Stuck in the middle of it all is civil servant Bernard Whooley.
Yes Prime Minister
Yes, Prime Minister is the sequel to the popular British series Yes Minister. It aired from 1986 to 1988 and is the story of the continuing battles between Jim Hacker, who is now Prime Minister, and Sir Humphrey, who has been promoted to Cabinet Secretary. |  | DVD Description:
This complete collection includes every episode of the hugely popular political satire Yes Minister series 1 – 3 (which first aired in 1980 on BBC 2) along with each episode in the subsequent two series of Yes Prime Minister (which aired from 1986).
Meet the bewildered Rt Hon James Hacker, his scheming and equivocating Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby and of course, Bernard, the piggy-in-the middle, on their fraught journey through the corridors of power. Easily the sharpest political comedy every written, with clandestine help from real civil servants, and satire that bites so close to home it sometimes seems more like a documentary. This does the impossible: it makes politics not just fun but hilariously funny.
| Yes Minister: The first series of the elegant sitcom-cum-farce-cum-sophisticated political satire Yes Minister, sets off Paul Eddington's Jim Hacker, Minister for Administrative Affairs, against Nigel Hawthorne's discreetly obstructive civil servant Sir Humphrey.
It features the pilot episode, "Open Government", curious in that it contains different and distinctly inferior opening and closing credits to the rest of the series. You also sense that Mrs Hacker was originally intended to have a larger role, with comedy focussing on the clash between political and domestic commitments, until the writers wisely decided to focus on the stand-off between Jim and Sir Humphrey, with Derek Fowlds' mousy private secretary Bernard making occasional interjections. While Sir Humphrey is at times a little too sinister for sitcom consumption, all the classic features quickly show up.
Hacker's occasional Churchillian bombast, followed by panicky blank double-takes when flummoxed, Sir Humphrey's unflappable verbosity as he brings the dead weight of civil service bureaucracy to bear against Hacker's naively optimistic schemes for open government, Quangos and slashing red tape in episodes like "The Economy Drive".
Ironic, that when this was first screened in the 80s, it was during the rampages of early Thatcherism in which Government had never been less like the ineffectual politicking satirised here. --David Stubbs | | Yes Prime Minister: Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's superb sitcom Yes Prime Minister entered 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 Minister is 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 | | Yes Minister
Series 1:
1 Open Government
2 The Official Visit
3 The Economy Drive
4 Big Brother
5 The Writing on the Wall
6 The Right to Know
7 Jobs for the Boys |  | |  | Yes Minister
Series 2:
8 The Compassionate Society
9 Doing the Honours
10 The Death List
11 The Greasy Pole
12 The Devil You Know
13 The Quality of Life
14 A Question of Loyalty | | Yes Minister
Series 3:
15 Equal Opportunities
16 The Challenge
17 The Skeleton in the Closet
18 The Moral Dimension
19 The Bed Of Nails
20 The Whiskey Priest
21 The Middle Class Rip Off
Sp Party Games |  | |  | Yes Prime Minister
Series 1:
1 Grand Design
2 The Ministerial Broadcast
3 The Smoke Screen
4 The Key
5 A Real Partnership
6 A Victory For Democracy
7 The Bishop's Gambit
8 One of Us | | Yes Prime Minister
Series 2:
9 Man Overboard
10 Official Secrets
11 A Diplomatic Incident
12 A Conflict of Interest
13 Power To The People
14 A Patron of the Arts
15 The National Education Service
16 The Tangled Web |  | | | | Cast List:
Paul Eddington ... Rt Hon James Hacker
Nigel Hawthorne ... Sir Humphrey Appleby
Derek Fowlds ... Bernard Wooley
John Nettleton ... Sir Arnold Robinson
Diana Hoddinott ... Annie Hacker | - Encoding: Region 2 PAL
- Format: Colour, Box set, Full Screen
- Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Package Dimensions : 19.3 x 13.7 x 2.7
cm; 270 Grams
- Director : Stuart Allen, Peter
Whitmore, Sidney Lotterby
- Producers : Peter Whitmore, Stuart
Allen, Sidney Lotterby
- Writers : Antony Jay, Jonathan
Lynn
- Media Format : Box set, PAL
- Run time : 1074 minutes
- Release date : 18 Oct. 2020
- Studio : BBC
- Available Audio Tracks: English Dolby Digital Mono
- Subttiles: English
- Note:
there are no subtitles for Yes Minister series One. The rest have English subtitles.
- Rated:
PG
- Number of discs: 7
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