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	Yes, Minister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms that were transmitted by the BBC between 1980 and 1988.
		Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister have been cited by political scientists for their accurate and sophisticated portrayal of these relationships.
		The fundamental plot of a minister being frustrated by the Civil Service was inspired by the published diaries of Richard Crossman after 1964, which are dominated by Crossman's constant struggle with Dame Evelyn Sharp, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yes,_Minister (2136 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| Yes, Minister: nothing changes
		So, instead, let me single out Yes, Minister as the best, most useful warning we've ever had of how we can go on convincing ourselves we operate under a properly functioning democracy while the truth is that the blindnesses and obstinacies of those with any sort of power clumsily conspire to make that democracy dysfunctional.
		In particular, Yes, Minister was the first show on British television to dramatise with deadly accuracy the twisted and contradictory logic that passes for standard political dialogue.
		Yes, Minister portrayed a Britain run by a comprehensively inept in-crowd, and the sad thing is that it's taken us years to realise the truth of this.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/02/07/do0708.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/02/07/ixportal.html (1394 words)

	The Yes (Prime) Minister Files - Introduction
		Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister is a British comedy series about the wheeling and dealing of political life.
		Jim Hacker as Prime Minister is still obsessed with popularity among the voters, but he now also wants to have his name written in the history books as a great statesman.
		Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was very impressed with the series and once stated: "Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in the corridors of power has given me hours of pure joy".
	www.yes-minister.com /introduc.htm (517 words)

	Yes, Minister
		The actor's performances as an incompetent minister and prime minister were so admired by Margaret Thatcher that she awarded him the honor of Commander of the British Empire.
		He was renowned for his roles in the BBC TV comedy Yes, Minister and the film and theatre versions of The Madness Of King George.
		Yes Minister is the first— and only— series to win the British Academy Award for Best Comedy three years running.
	www.tvheaven.ca /ymguide.htm (1821 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Yes Minister
		He enters office as Minister of Administrative Affairs with enthusiasm and ambition, determined to make his mark upon public life, but soon comes to realise that his hands are tied by complex bureaucratic regulations that seem both indecipherable and insurmountable.
		That is the job of the civil servants, and it is his solemn duty to uphold the status quo and, at the same time, feather the bed of his kind by ensuring that few civil servants, if any, ever lose their jobs as a result of government actions.
		Sixteen episodes of Yes Minister were re-recorded for broadcast by BBC Radio 4, with all the principal cast reprising their roles.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/y/yesminister_7777145.shtml (920 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| How Yes Minister made it to the top
		But one of the secrets of Yes, Minister was that as well as making people laugh, it did reflect the way that British officialdom actually functioned - at least sometimes, anyway.
		On the night before the publication in 1996 of the Scott Inquiry into arms sales to Iraq, he and the minister most under threat, William Waldegrave, drafted the government's response and then sat down in front of the television to pass the time while it was being typed.
		Yes Minister - the View from Whitehall, a two-part series, is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 1030 GMT on Saturday, 26 February, and Saturday, 5 March.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4298967.stm (646 words)

	OpinionJournal - Taste
		Whatever one thinks of same-sex marriage, it is disturbing that ministers would ever advertise their willingness to marry anybody who could cough up the cash.
		Doesn't a minister have a responsibility to get to know the couple he or she is marrying, at the very least to make sure they like each other and know what they're getting into?
		But I knew, outside Cambridge City Hall, that something was wrong--not the gay people getting married but the ministers outside, so eager to make a buck, or to make a point, that they had forgotten entirely what God, and their churches, had charged them to do.
	www.opinionjournal.com /taste?id=110005171 (748 words)

	Nigel Hawthorne : Television : Margareth Thatcher's "Yes, Prime Minister" script
		She had been invited, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the National Viewers and Listeners Association, to present the creators of her favourite programme, "Yes, Minister," with the association's annual award.
		She chose the best part for herself, that of Prime Minister, and the way in which she made the hapless Minister and his civil servant writhe and squirm had the audience in fits.
		The Prime Minister made her debut in the Waldegrave Hall under All Souls Church next to Broadcasting House where members of Mrs Whitehouse's association had gathered for the awards ceremony.
	www.yessirnigel.com /thatcher_script.html (806 words)

	Yes, Minister
		Yes, Minister, a classic situation comedy exposing the machinations of senior politicians and civil servants in Great Britain, was first broadcast by the BBC in 1980.
		This was not to say that Sir Humphrey always got his way, however: sometimes a last-minute development would deliver him into the minister's hands, leaving the civil servant speechless with rage and indignation.
		The script of Yes, Minister was both perceptive and hugely funny, and the casting of the main roles was perfect.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/Y/htmlY/yesminister/yesminister.htm (274 words)

	Yes, Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Humphry "No, Minister we lost those files in the flood of '78." Hacker "Oh, was it a bad flood?" "No, it was a great flood, we got rid of a lot of embarrassing files that year." This most have happened in every government HQ in the world at one point.
		Yes, Minister/Prime Minister has just been voted by the British viewing public as one of the best ten British sitcoms ever, and is up for the final vote for best ever.
		Yes, Minister was one of the slickest, cleverest sitcoms along with Blackadder, which also never jumped.
	www.jumptheshark.com /y/yes_minister.htm (3545 words)

	The Complete Yes Minister
		He speaks with the voice of experience, and he has watched a dozen ministers come and go; for whatever party happens to be in office, Permanent Secretaries are always in power.
		Not everything in "The Complete Yes Minister," it will be seen, is politics, and not all its humor qualifies as satire.
		Meanwhile, "The Complete Yes Minister" is guaranteed, as far as any book can be, to produce happy little explosions of laughter - and to leave you wishing that someone would try to produce an American equivalent.
	www.jonathanlynn.com /Books/Complete_Yes_Minister/yes_minister_NYT061287.htm (840 words)

	Yes, Prime Minister
		In fact she even attended and took part in a rehearsal of the programme, which was originally inspired by an actual conflict between a minister and his secretary.
		In 1964 the Minister of Housing, Richard Crossman, was at odds with his Secretary, Dame Evelyn Sharp.
		Yes, Prime Minister is political satire at its finest.
	www.tvheaven.ca /ypm.htm (2626 words)

	Yes Pwime Minister
		Jane piped up, "yes, and all that time is totally unproductive." She looked at her own photograph on the screen, where she was doing a passable imitation of Sharon Stone, and added, "this look takes less than a minute to style each morning.
		"Yes I understand that but it rather a big step you are asking me to take," she said, as unemotionally as she could.
		"Yes, it won’t be a number thwee at the back and sides," Fwitz said soothingly, attaching a guard to his clippers and flicking them into grumbling life.
	wonderfulworldofhair.tripod.com /stories/Yes_Pwime_Minister.htm (14162 words)

	UK Waterways humour : YES, MINISTER (2)
		Sir H : I assure you, Minister, that the members of BW Board are appointed on the basis of one man, one vote.
		You see, Minister, the relevant decisions were made by the last Government.
		Written by Mike Stevens as a sketch for the WRG entertainment at the National Waterways Festival, 1999, and performed with Mike Palmer as the Minister and the author as Sir Humphrey.
	www.mike-stevens.co.uk /cutmisc/humour/minister2.htm (736 words)

	BBC News \| TV AND RADIO \| Hindi makeover for Yes Minister
		The minister character in the original - Jim Hacker, has been renamed Suryaprakash Singh and is played by the well-known Indian actor Farooque Sheikh.
		The idea behind Yes Minister was to expose the struggle between senior politicians and the bureaucracy - mostly it was the flappable minister who was at the receiving end of attempts to outwit him.
		Yes Minister was very popular in India when it was shown in English.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1296392.stm (558 words)

	British Sitcom Guide - Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Political sitcom in which Jim Hacker, Member of Parliament, is appointed to the Cabinet as Minister For Administrative Affairs.
		In the follow-up series, "Yes, Prime Minister", Hacker is elevated to No. 10 but remained tied to Sir Humphrey.
		"Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" are both brilliant examples of first-class political satire.
	www.british-sitcom.co.uk /yes_minister/index.shtml (147 words)

	SLGoh's Favourite Yes Minister Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jim: "Well yes, of course, I was just about to give it to you, if I may. Yes as I said I'm glad you asked me that question because it's a question that a lot of people are asking, and quite so, because a lot of people want to know the answer to it.
		Bernard: It used to be said there were two kinds of chairs to go with two kinds of Ministers: one sort that folds up instantly, the other sort goes round and round in circles.
		This country is governed by ministers making decisions from the various alternative proposals which we offer them.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/1633/yesmin.html (2944 words)

	Yes, Prime Minister - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In this sequel to the series Yes, Minister, Jim Hacker has been promoted to Prime Minister and Sir Humphrey elevated to Cabinet Secretary.
		Although it was possible to believe that Hacker could be a minister - being photographed drunk after a party, making a fool of himself in radio and television interviews with his inability to answer straightforward questions etc - it was stretching credibility to see the man as Prime Minister, and the storylines suffered accordingly.
		Nonetheless, as with the original series, Yes, Prime Minister was much acclaimed by real politicians who enjoyed the show's cynical dismissal of Whitehall intrigue and its insight into the machinations of government.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/comedy/yesprimeminister.htm (302 words)

	Yes, yes, yes, oh yes minister! - theage.com.au
		It's clear from her diaries and our conversation that, while Major and Currie met for sex, theirs was also a true love affair.
		When he became prime minister, he offered her a job in the government, but not one she wanted.
		She pauses, smiles coquettishly and raises an eyebrow: "Could it be that during the 1980s, when he was a junior minister, he was getting a lot of help and encouragement from certain quarters that wasn't available later?"
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/10/09/1034061255036.html (1748 words)

	DVD.net : Yes Minister - Series 1 - DVD Review
		First aired in 1980, Yes, Minister stars the late Paul Eddington as British MP Jim Hacker, a newly elected minister in her majesty’s government.
		The central theme of Yes, Minister concerns the real role of the people’s representative (or lack of it) in the day-to-day running of the country.
		All in all, Yes Minister is a true classic of British comedy and worthy of your collection.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1193 (1371 words)

	Yes, Minister - Wikiquote
		Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British television shows that were broadcast between 1980 and 1988.
		Sir Humphrey: Yes, but even though they probably certainly know that you probably wouldn't, they don't certainly know that, although you probably wouldn't, there is no probability that you certainly would.
		Minister, it's like having the House of Commons in Swindon and the Civil Service in Kettering.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Yes,_Minister (1689 words)

	YES MINISTER/ YES PRIME MINISTER
		Yes, Minister was first broadcast on BBC on the 25th February 1980, twenty years ago, and the sustained dry wit of the dialogue and the wonderful interplay between the main characters of the Department of Administrative Affairs made the show compulsive viewing.
		Yes, Minister ran for three series, each constiting of 7 episodes, a series each year in 80, 81, and 82.
		It was a further two years before the exploits in number 10 were then seen on the screens, with the first series of Yes, Prime Minister broadcast on 9th January 1986.
	www.britishcomedy.org.uk /comedy/minister.htm (665 words)

	Yes Minister - Quotes from the episodes
		"Minister's language: 'We have decided to be more flexible in our application of this principle' means 'We are dropping this policy but we don't want to admit it publicly'.
		MPs are not chosen by 'the people' - they are chosen by their local constituency parties: thirty-five men in grubby raincoats or thirty-five women in silly hats.
		Ministers should also leave boats unrocked, nettles ungrasped, refrain from taking bulls by the horns, and resolutely turn their backs to the music."
	www.jonathanlynn.com /tv/yes_minister_series/yes_minister_episode_quotes.htm (3337 words)

	"Yes, Prime Minister" (1986) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Humphrey Appleby: The Queen is inseparable from the Church of England.
		"Yes Prime Minister" picks up where the previous "Yes Minister" left off, and continues the quality.
		The two series are bridged by a Christmas special, "Party Games", where the Prime Minister has retired, and Sir Humphrey has manipulated the selection process to place Jim Hacker in Number 10.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0086831 (494 words)

	Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister
		If the Minister will help us to implement the opposite policy to the one that he is pledged to, which once he is in office he will see is obviously incorrect, we will help him to pretend that he is in fact doing what he said he was going to do in his Manifesto.
		Minister I am quite frankly appalled, this is savagery, barbarism, that a Minister of the crown should say these things, it's...
		Sir Humphrey: Yes of course Prime Minister, please don't misunderstand me, it is quite right of course that you should contemplate all proposals that come from your government, but no sane man would ever support it.
	www.rubberturnip.org.uk /yesminister/shawn.html (13717 words)

	Yes Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The newly appointed Minister for Administrative Affairs, the Right Honourable James Hacker MP, finds even the corridors of power congested by the machinations of his Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey and his Civil Servant Cohorts
		Jim Hacker has been Minister of Administrative Affairs long enough now to know the unspoken rules of the game.
		The Death List - The Minister´s stance on covert surveillance during his opposition days comes back to bug him when he realises his department buys the phone tapping equipment.
	www.wobbly.de /html/yes_minister.html (671 words)

	YES MINISTER / YES PRIME MINISTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paul Edington stars as Jim Hacker, the newly promoted Minister of Administrative Affairs, an idealist who is fighting a losing battle with Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Under Secretary played by Nigel Hawthorne.
		Pollution's from every party recognized the truth in Yes Minister, In the 80's Margaret Thatcher told the press that it was her favourite show.
		Brilliantly written by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, Yes Minister is 38 of the best TV sit com episodes of all time.
	www.cultv.co.uk /yesminister.htm (121 words)

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