YES MINISTER + YES PRIME MINISTER : COMPLETE Both TV Series - NEW Rg2 DVD not US

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Yes Minister (1980-1984) &

Yes Prime Minister (1986-1988)

- Complete BBC Box Set

* DVD Edition! *

(7 Disc Set)

Region 2 PAL Version - Brand New, Factory Sealed DVD Set US/Canadian buyers please see note below!

These are original and factory sealed. They are Region 2 PAL and play beautifully on modern Multi-region DVD players.

DVD FEATURES: Intros: Yes Minister This is the story of the endless battles between the Government in the form of Jim Hacker, a brand new Cabinet Minister and the Civil Service of his department run by Sir Humphrey Appleby. Stuck in the middle of it all is civil servant Bernard Whooley. Yes Prime Minister Yes, Prime Minister is the sequel to the popular British series Yes Minister. It aired from 1986 to 1988 and is the story of the continuing battles between Jim Hacker, who is now Prime Minister, and Sir Humphrey, who has been promoted to Cabinet Secretary.

DVD Description: This complete collection includes every episode of the hugely popular political satire Yes Minister series 1 – 3 (which first aired in 1980 on BBC 2) along with each episode in the subsequent two series of Yes Prime Minister (which aired from 1986). Meet the bewildered Rt Hon James Hacker, his scheming and equivocating Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby and of course, Bernard, the piggy-in-the middle, on their fraught journey through the corridors of power. Easily the sharpest political comedy every written, with clandestine help from real civil servants, and satire that bites so close to home it sometimes seems more like a documentary. This does the impossible: it makes politics not just fun but hilariously funny.  

Yes Minister : The first series of the elegant sitcom-cum-farce-cum-sophisticated political satire Yes Minister, sets off Paul Eddington's Jim Hacker, Minister for Administrative Affairs, against Nigel Hawthorne's discreetly obstructive civil servant Sir Humphrey. It features the pilot episode, "Open Government", curious in that it contains different and distinctly inferior opening and closing credits to the rest of the series. You also sense that Mrs Hacker was originally intended to have a larger role, with comedy focussing on the clash between political and domestic commitments, until the writers wisely decided to focus on the stand-off between Jim and Sir Humphrey, with Derek Fowlds' mousy private secretary Bernard making occasional interjections. While Sir Humphrey is at times a little too sinister for sitcom consumption, all the classic features quickly show up. Hacker's occasional Churchillian bombast, followed by panicky blank double-takes when flummoxed, Sir Humphrey's unflappable verbosity as he brings the dead weight of civil service bureaucracy to bear against Hacker's naively optimistic schemes for open government, Quangos and slashing red tape in episodes like "The Economy Drive". Ironic, that when this was first screened in the 80s, it was during the rampages of early Thatcherism in which Government had never been less like the ineffectual politicking satirised here. --David Stubbs

Yes Prime Minister : Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's superb sitcom Yes Prime Minister entered 10 Downing Street with Jim Hacker now Prime Minister of Britain, following a campaign to "Save the British Sausage". Whether tackling defence ("The Grand Design"), local government ("Power to the People") or the National Education Service, all of Jim Hacker's bold plans for reform generally come to nothing, thanks to the machinations of Nigel Hawthorne's complacent Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey (Jeeves to Hacker's Wooster) who opposes any action of any sort on the part of the PM altogether. This is usually achieved by discreet horse-trading. In "One of Us", for instance, Hacker relents from implementing defence cuts when he is presented with the embarrassingly large bill he ran up in a vote-catching mission to rescue a stray dog on an army firing range. Only in "The Tangled Web", the final episode of Series 2, does the PM at last turn the tables on Sir Humphrey. Paul Eddington is a joy as Hacker, whether in mock-Churchillian mode or visibly cowering whenever he is congratulated on a "courageous" idea. Jay and Lynn's script, meanwhile, is a dazzlingly Byzantine exercise in wordplay, wittily reflecting the verbiage-to-substance ratio of politics. Ironically, Yes Prime Minister is an accurate depiction of practically all political eras except its own, the 1980s, when Thatcher successfully carried out a radical programme regardless of harrumphing senior civil servants. --David Stubbs

Yes Minister Series 1: 1 Open Government 2 The Official Visit 3 The Economy Drive 4 Big Brother 5 The Writing on the Wall 6 The Right to Know 7 Jobs for the Boys

Yes Minister Series 2: 8 The Compassionate Society 9 Doing the Honours 10 The Death List 11 The Greasy Pole 12 The Devil You Know 13 The Quality of Life 14 A Question of Loyalty

Yes Minister Series 3: 15 Equal Opportunities 16 The Challenge 17 The Skeleton in the Closet 18 The Moral Dimension 19 The Bed Of Nails 20 The Whiskey Priest 21 The Middle Class Rip Off Sp Party Games

Yes Prime Minister Series 1: 1 Grand Design 2 The Ministerial Broadcast 3 The Smoke Screen 4 The Key 5 A Real Partnership 6 A Victory For Democracy 7 The Bishop's Gambit 8 One of Us

Yes Prime Minister Series 2: 9 Man Overboard 10 Official Secrets 11 A Diplomatic Incident 12 A Conflict of Interest 13 Power To The People 14 A Patron of the Arts 15 The National Education Service 16 The Tangled Web

   
Cast List: Paul Eddington ... Rt Hon James Hacker Nigel Hawthorne ... Sir Humphrey Appleby Derek Fowlds ... Bernard Wooley John Nettleton ... Sir Arnold Robinson Diana Hoddinott ... Annie Hacker
  • Encoding: Region 2 PAL
  • Format: Colour, Box set, Full Screen
  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.3 x 13.7 x 2.7 cm; 270 Grams
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Stuart Allen, Peter Whitmore, Sidney Lotterby
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Peter Whitmore, Stuart Allen, Sidney Lotterby
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Box set, PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1074 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 18 Oct. 2020
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ BBC
  • Available Audio Tracks: English Dolby Digital Mono
  • Subttiles: English
    • Note: there are no subtitles for Yes Minister series One. The rest have English subtitles.
  • Rated: PG
  • Number of discs: 7
 

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  • Condition: New
  • Rating: PG
  • Subtitle Language: English
  • Director: Peter Whitmore
  • Sub-Genre: Comedy, Political
  • Studio: BBC
  • Edition: Subtitles, Box Set, Collector's Edition
  • Type: TV Series
  • Format: DVD
  • Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
  • Release Year: 2020
  • Language: English
  • Actor: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
  • Genre: TV Shows, Comedy
  • Season: Complete Series Box Set
  • Movie/TV Title: YES MINISTER + YES PRIME MINISTER

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