Yes, Prime Minister
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Season 0
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6: Nigel Hawthorne Tribute
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7: Jonathan Lynn Interview
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9: Yes Real Prime Minister
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10: The Funny side of Christmas
Prime Minister Hacker tries to record his Christmas message.
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11: The View from Whitehall
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12: Best Sitcom
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14: Comedy Connections
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15: Commercials
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1: Paul Eddington A Life Well Lived
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Monday, December 17th, 1984
5: Party Games
Series opener as Jim Hacker rises to the position of Prime Minister.
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Thursday, January 9th, 1986
3: BBC Breakfast Time Cabinet Ministers Interview
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Monday, January 13th, 1986
2: Paul Eddington Interview
Wogan Talk Show
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Friday, April 25th, 1986
13: Comic Relief short
A two-minute introduction to the first ever Comic Relief event saw Paul Eddington, in character as Prime Minister Hacker, address the nation on the subject of charitable giving and its preferential nature to government handouts to charity. It was the only video insert in the show, which was performed at London's Shaftesbury Theatre on 4-6 April 1986. An edited highlights programme, including Hacker's address, was broadcast by the BBC on 25 April.
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Friday, December 25th, 1987
4: Christmas Morning with Noel Show
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Sunday, December 26th, 1999
8: A short history of Yes Minister
DVD Extra
Season 1
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Thursday, January 9th, 1986
1: The Grand Design
Jim Hacker considers cancelling the Trident programme after discovering some interesting facts about the UK's defence system.
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Thursday, January 16th, 1986
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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Thursday, January 23rd, 1986
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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Thursday, January 30th, 1986
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 No 10.
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Thursday, February 6th, 1986
5: A Real Partnership
Sir Humphrey tries to get his scheduled pay raise even though increases for MPs have been put on hold for budgetary reasons.
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Thursday, February 13th, 1986
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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Thursday, February 20th, 1986
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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Thursday, February 27th, 1986
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.
Season 2
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Thursday, December 3rd, 1987
1: Man Overboard
Sir Humphrey makes Jim suspicious of the Minister of Employment when he needs the PM's support in opposing a plan to shift military personnel from the south to the north of England.
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Thursday, December 10th, 1987
2: Official Secrets
Jim considers approving the publication of his predecessor's memoirs, but it becomes a plumber's nightmare as a series of leaks spring up.
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Thursday, December 17th, 1987
3: A Diplomatic Incident
Jim uses the occasion of his predecessor's state funeral to negotiate with the French over the conditions of the channel tunnel.
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 1987
4: A Conflict of Interest
Hacker and Sir Humphrey clash over the appointment of the governor of the Bank of England and the cover up of a banking scandal in the City.
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Thursday, January 7th, 1988
5: Power to the People
Sir Humphrey makes a very strange ally out of the formidable Agnes Moorhouse, a radical political reformer from a London council, in his efforts to stop Hacker's plans to make local government more democratic.
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Thursday, January 14th, 1988
6: The Patron of the Arts
Sir Humphrey works against Hacker over the issues of funding the National Theatre when the PM asks for help containing criticism from the Theatre's director.
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Thursday, January 21st, 1988
7: The National Education Service
Sir Humphrey faces a conflict of interest when Hacker devises a plan to improve educational standards by abolishing the Department of Education and Science.
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Thursday, January 28th, 1988
8: The Tangled Web
Sir Humphrey has to decide if he will support the PM or inform Parliament when Hacker denies knowledge of a wiretap authorized by his office without his knowledge.