{{Short description|None}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''Yes Minister'' and ''Yes, Prime Minister'' episodes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use British English|date=October 2013}} Thirty-eight episodes of ''Yes Minister'' and ''Yes, Prime Minister'' were made in total, running from 1980 to 1988. A one-hour special aired in 1984; all other episodes were a half-hour in length. The dates listed below are when a particular episode was first transmitted on BBC2.
== Series overview == ===''Yes Minister''=== {{Series overview
|color1=#8A4627|link1=#Series 1 (1980)|episodes1=7|start1={{Start date|1980|2|25|df=y}}|end1={{End date|1980|4|7|df=y}}
|color2=#006600|link2=#Series 2 (1981)|episodes2=7|start2={{Start date|1981|2|23|df=y}}|end2={{End date|1981|4|6|df=y}}
|color3=#0000FF|link3=#Series 3 (1982)|episodes3=7|start3={{Start date|1982|11|11|df=y}}|end3={{End date|1982|12|23|df=y}}
|color3S=#FF29FF|link3S=#Christmas Sketch (1982)|linkT3S=Christmas Sketch|released3S={{Start date|1982|12|27|df=y}}
|color4S=#FFA500|link4S=#Christmas Special (1984)|linkT4S=Christmas Special|released4S={{Start date|1984|12|17|df=y}} }}
===''Yes, Prime Minister''=== {{Series overview
|color5=#FFFF00|link5=#Series 1 (1986)|linkT5=1|episodes5=8|start5={{Start date|1986|1|9|df=y}}|end5={{End date|1986|2|27|df=y}}
|color6=#800080|link6=#Series 2 (1987-88)|linkT6=2|episodes6=8|start6={{Start date|1987|12|3|df=y}}|end6={{End date|1988|1|28|df=y}} }}
==''Yes Minister'' (1980–1984)== ===Series 1 (1980)=== {{Episode table |background=#8A4627 |overall= |series= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 1 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Open Government | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|2|25|df=y}} | ShortSummary = The new Minister's idealistic commitment to open the windows of his department faces its first hurdle: Sir Humphrey and the Civil Service. | LineColor =#8A4627 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 2 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = The Official Visit | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|3|3|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Jim Hacker welcomes the visit of the new President of Buranda, an old university chum who has his own agenda. | LineColor =#8A4627 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 3 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = The Economy Drive | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|3|10|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker plans to slim down the civil service – but Sir Humphrey forces him to set a personal example. | LineColor =#8A4627 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 4 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = Big Brother | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|3|17|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Sir Humphrey drags his feet over the safeguards for a new National Integrated Database. | LineColor =#8A4627 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 5 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = The Writing on the Wall | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|3|24|df=y}} | ShortSummary = The threat of the abolition of the Department of Administrative Affairs forces Hacker and Sir Humphrey to work together. | LineColor =#8A4627 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 6 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = The Right to Know | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|3|31|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A threatened badger colony demonstrates that Sir Humphrey must be selective in what he tells his Minister, especially when Lucy Hacker - Jim Hacker's daughter - gets involved. | LineColor =#8A4627 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 7 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = Jobs for the Boys | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|4|7|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker is kept in the dark over a doomed building project, and discovers that it takes two to quango. | LineColor =#8A4627 }} }}
===Series 2 (1981)=== {{Episode table |background=#006600 |overall= |series= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 8 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = The Compassionate Society | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|2|23|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker is concerned about a brand new, fully staffed hospital that has no patients. He learns, however, just how powerful the unions are. Featuring Norman Bird. | LineColor =#006600 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 9 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = Doing the Honours | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|2|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker plans to withhold honours for civil servants who do not reduce their budgets. | LineColor =#006600 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 10 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = The Death List | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|9|df=y}} | ShortSummary = The Minister is forced to re-appraise his views on bugging and phone tapping after a death threat. Featuring Graeme Garden. | LineColor =#006600 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 11 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = The Greasy Pole | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|16|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Plans for a new chemical factory hinge on the outcome of a so-called "independent" report. Featuring Brenda Blethyn. | LineColor =#006600 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 12 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = The Devil You Know | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|23|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A Cabinet reshuffle coincides with a vacancy in Brussels. Hacker wonders who the PM has in mind to fill it. | LineColor =#006600 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 13 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = The Quality of Life | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|30|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker vows to keep open a city farm that Sir Humphrey has enabled to be bulldozed to make way for a car park for Inland Revenue inspectors. | LineColor =#006600 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 14 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = A Question of Loyalty | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|4|6|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker and Sir Humphrey are tested by a select committee on their commitment to reducing waste in government expenditure. Featuring Judy Parfitt. | LineColor =#006600 }} }}
===Series 3 (1982)=== {{Episode table |background=#0000FF |overall= |series= |title= |airdate= |episodes={{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 15
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Equal Opportunities | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|11|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Sir Humphrey does not see eye to eye with the Minister's plan for gender equality in the civil service. Featuring Eleanor Bron. | LineColor =#0000FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 16 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = The Challenge | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|18|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Fallout shelters upset Hacker's crusade to make local authorities responsible for their expenditure. Featuring Ludovic Kennedy | LineColor =#0000FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 17 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = The Skeleton in the Cupboard | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|25|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Details of a 1950s defence contract are about to be made public – and Sir Humphrey seems unaccountably nervous. Featuring Ian Lavender. | LineColor =#0000FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 18 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = The Moral Dimension | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|12|2|df=y}} | ShortSummary = After signing a huge export order in Kumran, Hacker is upset to discover it was obtained through bribery. | LineColor =#0000FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 19 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = The Bed of Nails | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|12|9|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker is made Transport Supremo – and soon wonders if it is a title worth having. | LineColor =#0000FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 20 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = The Whisky Priest | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|12|16|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker faces a moral dilemma when he learns that British bombs are ending up in the hands of Italian terrorists. | LineColor =#0000FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 21 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = The Middle-Class Rip-Off | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|12|23|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Sir Humphrey is incensed that Hacker plans to subsidise his local football club by selling a local museum. | LineColor =#0000FF }} }}
===Christmas Sketch (1982)=== A two-minute Christmas-themed sketch, featuring only Eddington, Hawthorne and Fowlds, was aired on BBC1 as part of a 1982 Christmas special titled ''The Funny Side of Christmas''.
{{Episode table |background=#FF29FF |overall= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 1 | Title = Christmas at the Ministry | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|12|27|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Sir Humphrey has a special end-of-year message for the Minister, delivered in, even by his standards, an especially circumlocutory style. His message was later transcribed and printed in ''The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book''. | LineColor = #FF29FF }} }}
===Christmas Special (1984)=== {{Episode table |background=#FFA500 |overall= |overallT=No. overall |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 22 | Title = Party Games | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1984|12|17|df=y}} | ShortSummary = The unexpected resignation of the PM prompts a race for the succession, and, as Party Chairman, Hacker is in a key position—and the Civil Service, now headed by Sir Humphrey, has its own agenda. (Special hour-long episode.) | LineColor = #FFA500 }} }}
==''Yes, Prime Minister'' (1986–1988)== ===Series 1 (1986)=== {{Episode table |background=#FFFF00 |overall= |series= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 1 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = The Grand Design | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|1|9|df=y}} | ShortSummary = With his finger now on the nuclear button, Hacker plans his first act as Prime Minister to be a radical new defence policy. | LineColor =#FFFF00 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 2 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = The Ministerial Broadcast | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|1|16|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker is groomed for his first television broadcast as PM, but Sir Humphrey is more concerned with the content. | LineColor =#FFFF00 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 3 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = The Smoke Screen | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|1|23|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker uses his Health Minister's plan to eliminate smoking as a bluff against the Treasury. | LineColor =#FFFF00 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 4 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = The Key | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|1|30|df=y}} | ShortSummary = The PM decides to clip Sir Humphrey's wings when he engages in a territorial battle with Hacker's political advisor. | LineColor =#FFFF00 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 5 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = A Real Partnership | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|2|6|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Sir Humphrey has to get through a civil service pay claim while at the same time discrediting its proposer. | LineColor =#FFFF00 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 6 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = A Victory for Democracy | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|2|13|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker has difficulty discovering if the Foreign Office is there to carry out government policy or vice versa. | LineColor =#FFFF00 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 7 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = The Bishop's Gambit | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|2|20|df=y}} | ShortSummary = A troubled British nurse in Kumran and a vacant bishopric combine to provide an opportunity for Sir Humphrey. | LineColor =#FFFF00 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 8 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = One of Us | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|2|27|df=y}} | ShortSummary = The former head of MI5 is revealed to be a spy (despite Sir Humphrey clearing him), while a dog strays onto Salisbury Plain. Featuring Michael Aldridge. | LineColor =#FFFF00 }} }}
===Series 2 (1987–88)=== {{Episode table |background=#800080 |overall= |series= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 9 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Man Overboard | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|12|3|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Sir Humphrey fights the Employment Secretary's plan to relocate service personnel to the North of England by casting doubt over the Minister's loyalty. | LineColor =#800080 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 10 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = Official Secrets | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|12|10|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker attempts to suppress an unflattering chapter of his predecessor's memoirs that has been leaked to the press. | LineColor =#800080 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 11 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = A Diplomatic Incident | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|12|17|df=y}} | ShortSummary = The death of Hacker's predecessor provides a chance for some negotiations with France over the Channel Tunnel at his state funeral. | LineColor =#800080 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 12 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = A Conflict of Interest | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|12|23|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074s27/yes-prime-minister-series-2-4-a-conflict-of-interest|title=BBC Two Programmes – Yes, Prime Minister, Series 2, A Conflict of Interest|publisher=BBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100508165412/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007l46n|archive-date=8 May 2010}}</ref> | ShortSummary = Hacker can avoid a City scandal if he appoints a Bank of England Governor whose honesty is not beyond reproach. | LineColor =#800080 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 13 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = Power to the People | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|1|7|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Sir Humphrey and the leader of Houndsworth Council become strange bedfellows when Hacker tries to reform local government. This episode gave rise to the Politician's syllogism. | LineColor =#800080 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 14 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = The Patron of the Arts | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|1|14|df=y}} | ShortSummary = Hacker's invitation to the British Theatre Awards dinner becomes a hot potato when the size of the Arts Council grant is revealed. Features John Bird. | LineColor =#800080 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 15 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = The National Education Service | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|1|21|df=y}} | ShortSummary = When the Department of Education and Science stands in the way of reform, Hacker decides to abolish it. | LineColor =#800080 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 16 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = The Tangled Web | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|1|28|df=y}} | ShortSummary = When Hacker unwittingly lies to the House of Commons he is helped by Sir Humphrey's unfortunate indiscretion. | LineColor =#800080 }} }}
==''Yes, Prime Minister'' (2013)== {{Main|Yes, Prime Minister (2013 TV series)}} In January 2013, a new series of ''Yes, Prime Minister'' was launched on the Gold television channel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uktv.co.uk/gold/homepage/sid/9387/|title=Home – Gold|work=uktv.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/yes_prime_minister_2013/episodes/1|title=Yes, Prime Minister Series 1 episode guide – British Comedy Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080306/episodes Episode list for "Yes Minister"] at IMDb * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086831/episodes Episode list for "Yes, Prime Minister"] at IMDb
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