Yes Minister
Open Government
Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired 1980-02-25
Synopsis
The Rt Hon Jim Hacker, newly appointed Minister for Administrative Affairs, finds his idealism challenged from the start.
In the series
This episode is part of Yes Minister (1980–1984) on BBC Two.
Civil service as comic chess — yes, Minister, with a knife behind the smile.
Key cast
- Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker
- Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey Appleby
- Derek Fowlds as Bernard Woolley