Yes Minister 1980
Created by Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay
- Comedy, War & Politics
- 30 min episodes
- 3 seasons
- 21 episodes
- Ended
- TV-PG
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.
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Comic, cool, intimate and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Paul EddingtonJim Hacker
- Nigel HawthorneSir Humphrey Appleby
- Derek FowldsBernard Woolley
Crew
- Jonathan LynnCreator
- Antony JayCreator
- Sydney LotterbyProducer
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Seasons
- Series 17 eps · 1980
- Series 27 eps · 1981
- Series 37 eps · 1982
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