Political sitcom. The minister is shocked to discover that his department is responsible for supplying all of the government's electronic surveillance equipment.
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Series 1: 6. The Right To Know
Sir Humphrey prevents Jim from getting to know too much about how the Department of Administrative Affairs operates and uses badgers in Hayward's Spinney to show him there are t ...
10-06-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 5. The Writing On The Wall
Jim Hacker's campaign against civil service overmanning is too successful. Now his own department faces closure.
07-06-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 4. Big Brother
Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim tries to implement a privacy safeguard for a new national computer database - but Sir Humphrey, ...
27-05-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. The Economy Drive
Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker wants to implement some cost-cutting initiatives - but Sir Humphrey does not approve.
24-05-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. The Official Visit
Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. When Hacker recognises a visiting head of an African nation as someone he knew from his student day ...
17-05-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Open Government
First episode of the acclaimed sitcom about an apparently clueless British government minister and the advisers who surround him. \n\nWhen Jim Hacker's party wins the general el ...
10-05-2025
BBC 4
Series 3: 8. Party Games
Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. The seasonal festivities at the Department of Administrative Affairs are overshadowed by rumours of ...
24-12-2024
BBC 4
Series 3: 7. The Middle-class Rip-off
Jim Hacker encounters civil service snobbery when he suggests selling an art gallery to save his local football team.
19-12-2023
BBC 4
Series 3: 6. The Whisky Priest
Jim, as a former journalist, learns that arms from a government factory are being sold to foreign terrorists, thus giving Jim as a minister a moral dilemma.
12-12-2023
BBC 4
Series 3: 5. The Bed Of Nails
Sitcom. Jim is given responsibility for developing a national transport policy.
12-12-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. The Economy Drive
Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker wants to implement some cost-cutting initiatives - but Sir Humphrey does not approve.
24-05-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Open Government
First episode of the acclaimed sitcom about an apparently clueless British government minister and the advisers who surround him. \n\nWhen Jim Hacker's party wins the general el ...
10-05-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 6. The Right To Know
Sir Humphrey prevents Jim from getting to know too much about how the Department of Administrative Affairs operates and uses badgers in Hayward's Spinney to show him there are t ...
10-06-2025
BBC 4
Series 2: 2. Doing The Honours
Sir Humphrey has to combat Jim's economies, including cuts on profitable overseas students at his old college and linking civil servants' honours with achieving cuts.
07-10-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. The Official Visit
Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. When Hacker recognises a visiting head of an African nation as someone he knew from his student day ...
17-05-2025
BBC 4
Series 2: 7. A Question Of Loyalty
Hacker and Sir Humphrey are called to appear before a Select Committee looking into government expenditure, and Hacker must choose between toeing the party line and doing what t ...
11-11-2023
BBC 4
Series 3: 6. The Whisky Priest
Jim, as a former journalist, learns that arms from a government factory are being sold to foreign terrorists, thus giving Jim as a minister a moral dilemma.
12-12-2023
BBC 4
Series 2: 6. The Quality Of Life
Political sitcom. Jim Hacker makes a rash promise to save a popular city farm from closure but he needs Sir Humphrey's help.
04-11-2023
BBC 4
Series 2: 1. The Compassionate Society
Political sitcom. Minister for administrative affairs Jim Hacker struggles to cut administrative staff in the Health Service.
30-09-2023
BBC 4
Series 2: 4. The Greasy Pole
Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him. Jim Hacker finds himself in the middle of a row over the British Chemical Corporation.
21-10-2023
BBC 4