Yes Minister
A Question of Loyalty
Season 2, Episode 7 · Aired 1981-04-06
Synopsis
Hacker and Sir Humphrey are called to appear before a Select Committee looking into government expenditure, and Hacker must choose between toeing the party line and doing what the Civil Service want him to do.
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