Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey Appleby
Episodes 16
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Party Games
Series opener as Jim Hacker rises to the position of Prime Minister.
Read MoreBBC Breakfast Time Cabinet Ministers Interview
BBC's Breakfast Time interviewed six former Cabinet Ministers and Jonathan Lynn on how Jim Hacker will fare in Number 10.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MorePaul Eddington Interviewed by Felicity Kendal
Wogan Talk Show: Felicity Kendal interviews Paul Eddington
Read MoreThe Ministerial Broadcast
Jim is coached in the world of show business as he prepares to address the nation on his defence policy.
Read MoreThe Smoke Screen
Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreThe Bishop’s Gambit
Jim has to choose a new bishop but doesn’t like either the Church or Sir Humphrey’s choices.
Read MoreMan Overboard
Sir Humphrey makes Jim suspicious of the Minister of Employment when he needs the P.M.’s support in opposing a plan to shift military personnel from the south to the north of England.
Read MoreOfficial 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.
Read MoreA Diplomatic Incident
Jim uses the occasion of his predecessor’s state funeral to negotiate with the French over the conditions of the Channel Tunnel.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreChristmas Morning with Noel Show
One of many celebrity messages to Noel Edmunds's Christmas Morning with Noel show, which BBC aired on December 25, 1987
Read MorePower 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.
Read MoreThe Patron of the Arts
Jim Hacker faces embarrassment when Sir Humphrey tells a friend in the arts that the PM's government is planning to cut grants.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe Tangled Web
Sir Humphrey has to decide if he will support the P.M. or inform Parliament when Hacker denies knowledge of a wiretap authorized by his office without his knowledge.
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