The BEST episodes written by Antony Jay
#1 - The Writing on the Wall
Yes Minister - Season 1 - Episode 5
A rumour starts that Jim's department is about to be axed. So with help from Sir Humphrey, they try and defeat the Prime Minister's plans.
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#2 - The Grand Design
Yes, Prime Minister - Season 1 - Episode 1
Jim Hacker considers cancelling the Trident programme after discovering some interesting facts about the UK's defence system.
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#3 - Big Brother
Yes Minister - Season 1 - Episode 4
When the Government is planning to introduce a national database, Jim wants to bring in safe guards, but Sir Humphrey stalls until with some help from the opposition, Jim gets his way.
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#4 - Open Government
Yes Minister - Season 1 - Episode 1
Jim Hacker wins a seat in the election and is given a cabinet post in the new government He meets the permanent secretary for his department Sir Humphrey Appleby but Jim decides to change the way things are done in the civil service so Sir Humphrey starts a plan to stop him
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#5 - The Right to Know
Yes Minister - Season 1 - Episode 6
Jim faces rebellion at home and in the office over the removal of protected status from a badger habitat, while he tries to circumvent Sir Humphrey's efforts to keep him ignorant of things.
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#6 - Jobs for the Boys
Yes Minister - Season 1 - Episode 7
Jim goes on radio to support the Solihull project a Government, union and private enterprise building scheme, that he has inherited from the last administration, but unknown to him the project is close to bankruptcy, Sir Humphrey hopes to save the deal by offering a Quango to the director of the bank involved
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#7 - The Official Visit
Yes Minister - Season 1 - Episode 2
When the leader of an African country is killed in a coup, his successor, who is an old friend of Jim's, comes in his place. They negotiate a £50 million deal to help buy oil exploration equipment.
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#8 - The Compassionate Society
Yes Minister - Season 2 - Episode 1
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.
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