- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Alison Graham
Here’s a nice little treat – a curtain raiser for Gold’s updated Yes, Prime Minister, which starts later this month with David Haig as hapless PM Jim Hacker and Henry Goodman as his handler, Sir Humphrey Appleby.
Haig and Goodman have big shoes to fill, something that’s obvious from the start in this first episode of the original Yes Minister from 1980.
Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne, in one of the great sitcom partnerships of all time, are wonderful as the politely warring duo of Hacker and Sir Humphrey. It’s easy to see why the series routinely tops “best” comedy polls. It was sublimely clever and beautifully funny.
About this programme
1/7. Jim Hacker settles into his new job as Minister for Administrative Affairs, ably assisted - and hindered - by civil servants Bernard Woolley and Sir Humphrey Appleby. First-ever episode of the comedy, starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Jim Hacker
- Paul Eddington
- Sir Humphrey Appleby
- Nigel Hawthorne
- Bernard Woolley
- Derek Fowlds
- Sir Arnold Robinson
- John Nettleton
- Vic Gould
- Edward Jewsbury
- Annie Hacker
- Diana Hoddinott
- Frank Weisel
- Neil Fitzwilliam
- Mayor
- Norman Mitchell
- Nigel Lloyd-Pritchard
- David Moran
- Radio reporter
- Fraser Kerr
Crew
- Director
- Stuart Allen
- Writer
- Antony Jay
- Writer
- Jonathan Lynn
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