Yes Minister
The Compassionate Society
Season 2, Episode 1 · Aired 1981-02-23
Synopsis
Minister for administrative affairs Jim Hacker struggles to cut administrative staff in the Health Service.
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