Yes, Prime Minister: Season 1
- Premiered Jan 9, 1986
- 8 episodes
Vision, integrity and a ruthless streak are the weapons of the political power. Unfortunately new Prime Minister Jim Hacker has none of these, but he does have the cowardice, desperation and a scheming, pragmatic Cabinet Secretary in Sir Humphrey...
Episodes
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1. The Grand Design
With his finger now on the nuclear button, Hacker plans his first act as Prime Minister to be a radical new defence policy.
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2. The Ministerial Broadcast
Jim is coached in the world of show business as he prepares to address the nation on his defence policy.
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3. The Smoke Screen
Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.
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4. The Key
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.
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5. A Real Partnership
Sir Humphrey tries to get his scheduled pay raise even though increases for M.P.s have been put on hold for budgetary reasons.
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6. A Victory for Democracy
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.
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7. The Bishop’s Gambit
Jim has to choose a new bishop but doesn’t like either the Church or Sir Humphrey’s choices.
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8. One of Us
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.
Episode information from TMDB. Air dates refer to the original broadcast or release.