Yes, Prime Minister

With his finger now on the nuclear button, Hacker plans his first act as Prime Minister to be a radical new defence policy.

Première diffusion : 9 janvier 1986

Jim is coached in the world of show business as he prepares to address the nation on his defence policy.

Première diffusion : 16 janvier 1986

Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.

Première diffusion : 23 janvier 1986

Office politics take precedence over national issues when Sir Humphrey and Bernard fall out with each other after Jim tries to restrict Sir Humphrey’s access to №10.

Première diffusion : 30 janvier 1986

Sir Humphrey tries to get his scheduled pay raise even though increases for M.P.s have been put on hold for budgetary reasons.

Première diffusion : 6 février 1986

Jim must take action to avert a Marxist takeover of a Commonwealth island nation despite the efforts of the Foreign Office to keep him ignorant.

Première diffusion : 13 février 1986

Jim has to choose a new bishop but doesn’t like either the Church or Sir Humphrey’s choices.

Première diffusion : 20 février 1986

Hacker threatens to place Sir Humphrey on leave while a security inquiry looks into why he cleared a confessed Soviet spy many years earlier, so Sir Humphrey retaliates with a dog in distress on Salisbury plain.

Première diffusion : 27 février 1986

Sir Humphrey makes Jim suspicious of the Minister of Employment when he needs the P.M.’s support in opposing a plan to shift military personnel from the south to the north of England.

Première diffusion : 3 décembre 1987

Jim considers approving the publication of his predecessor’s memoirs, but it becomes a plumber’s nightmare as a series of leaks spring up.

Première diffusion : 10 décembre 1987

Jim uses the occasion of his predecessor’s state funeral to negotiate with the French over the conditions of the Channel Tunnel.

Première diffusion : 17 décembre 1987

Hacker and Sir Humphrey clash over the appointment of the governor of the Bank of England and the cover up of a banking scandal in the City.

Première diffusion : 24 décembre 1987

Sir Humphrey makes a very strange ally out of the formidable Agnes Moorhouse, a radical political reformer from a London council, in his efforts to stop Hacker’s plans to make local government more democratic.

Première diffusion : 31 décembre 1987

Jim Hacker faces embarrassment when Sir Humphrey tells a friend in the arts that the PM's government is planning to cut grants.

Première diffusion : 1 janvier 1988

Sir Humphrey faces a conflict of interest when Hacker devises a plan to improve educational standards by abolishing the Department of Education and Science.

Première diffusion : 8 janvier 1988

Sir Humphrey has to decide if he will support the P.M. or inform Parliament when Hacker denies knowledge of a wiretap authorized by his office without his knowledge.

Première diffusion : 28 janvier 1988