Yes Minister: Series 1 (1980)

UK

Television Series

Director: Sydney Lotterby

Writers: Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn

Cinematographer: Peter Winn

Composer: Ronnie Hazlehurst

Cast: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Neil Fitzwiliam, John Savident, Diana Hoddinott

When James Hacker is appointed as the Minister for Administrative Affairs by the new Prime Minister, he soon discovers that his aim to implement open, slim-lined government won’t be as easy as he had thought, as he finds his every move blocked by the bureaucratic guile of Sir Humphrey Appleby, his department’s Permanent Secretary, in this hilarious, sharply drawn political satire. Iain.Stott