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Yes Minister

Season 2 1981
TV-PG

  • 1981-02-23T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 30m
  • 3h 30m (7 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy, War
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.

7 episodes

Season Premiere

1981-02-23T21:00:00Z

2x01 The Compassionate Society

Season Premiere

2x01 The Compassionate Society

  • 1981-02-23T21:00:00Z30m

When Jim learns that a brand new hospital still has no medical staff, but hundreds of civil servants working there, he proposes that half of the civil servants be sacked and use the money saved to open wards with medical staff.

1981-03-02T21:00:00Z

2x02 Doing the Honours

2x02 Doing the Honours

  • 1981-03-02T21:00:00Z30m

When Jim learns that he can block civil servant’s honours, he blackmails them into cutting their budgets, but when he hears that he might be in line for an honorary degree, he has to back down.

1981-03-09T21:00:00Z

2x03 The Death List

2x03 The Death List

  • 1981-03-09T21:00:00Z30m

When Jim learns that when in opposition he was bugged by the secret service, he decides to bring in legislation to kerb the bugging, only to find out that he is on the death list of a group of terrorist’s, and the best way to find them, is by bugging phone lines

1981-03-16T21:00:00Z

2x04 The Greasy Pole

2x04 The Greasy Pole

  • 1981-03-16T21:00:00Z30m

Jim has the chance of creating jobs, and saving a chemical company, when they are offered the chance to manufacture a highly dangerous chemical, but when the news gets out that it might be too dangerous, he has to back down.

1981-03-23T21:00:00Z

2x05 The Devil You Know

2x05 The Devil You Know

  • 1981-03-23T21:00:00Z30m

When Jim is betrayed by a Cabinet colleague over his plans to bring in jobs for British workers, he thinks about leaving Westminster and becoming a European Commissioner, But when Sir Humphrey learns who his replacement will be, he tries to change Jim’s mind.

1981-03-30T20:00:00Z

2x06 The Quality of Life

2x06 The Quality of Life

  • 1981-03-30T20:00:00Z30m

Sir Humphrey uses Jim’s promise to keep a popular city farm project open to get special permission for an additional nine floors on a proposed skyscraper.

Season Finale

1981-04-06T20:00:00Z

2x07 A Question of Loyalty

Season Finale

2x07 A Question of Loyalty

  • 1981-04-06T20:00:00Z30m

Jim and Sir Humphrey pass the buck to protect each other when they appear before a select committee investigating charges of waste in Hacker’s ministry, until Jim’s higher loyalties are called upon.

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