Anybody familiar with 'Yes Minister/Prime Minister' (BBC) ?

[nine30]

It is a BBC production from the early 80s and has some of the BEST political humor/satire, in fact any humor, ever to be found in a TV series.

I recently bought the whole DVD set from amazon, and have since been relishing *every* dialogue, especially those of Humphrey Appleby! If you are a political junkie, you cannot afford to miss this.

[Maple]

1. YES! Loved that show!

And Appleby was a work of art in himself. The shows have brilliant pieces in them...how polls are framed, how things actually get done, how bureaucrats view politicans, the UK view of Europe and the world, how a moron becomes PM....hmmmmm

[nine30]

2. Big Government

Its a sattire of big govt bureaucracy, inefficency, waste, high taxes..etc

In fact Humphrey is the kind of guy Republicans love to hate !

[Maple]

5. But the guy they are left with

is the moron PM. :D

[rman]

13. it's satire of corrupt government, left or right has little to do with it.

many labor voters now hate Tony "Tory-in-disguise" Blair.

[doni_georgia]

3. Still comes on PBS here Saturday nights - well last time I checked

[Piperay]

12. Yes PBS is still

showing it.

[MattNC]

4. GREAT show

Question: Is the DVD one big set, or do you just the two packages sent to you separately?

[nine30]

6. Both

You can get the Yes PM set and/or Yes M set seperately, or you can order them both as one big set ( cheaper)

[MattNC]

7. is the one big set...

one big package?? B/c I ordered Yes, Prime Minister a while back not realizing there was a Yes, Minister as well. It would've been nice to have one single set with all the episodes. But I'll order Yes, Minister by itself soon I guess.

[nine30]

8. Yes Minister is even better !

That was before Jim Hacker got promoted (by chance ) to PM. He used to be the 'Minister of Administrative Affairs' (just the title itself reeks of waste,inefficency and bureaucracy ! ) and Humphrey was a Cabinet secretary.

[Gloria]

9. Oh, what great series!!

I think the actor who played the hapless PM died a couple of years ago, as did the actor who played the crafty guy actually running the show!(Humphrey)

[yellowdogintexas]

11. yes both of them are dead, sad to say

Paul Eddington, the "Minister" was the second lead in an even older BBC comedy "Good Neighbors"

Nigel Hawthorne, who played Humphrey, was nominated for an Academy Award for his portral of King George III in "The Madness of King George", opposite the magnificent Helen Mirren.

[yellowdogintexas]

10. just got through watching an episode, in fact

Currently showing on Saturday nights @10:30 pm. We are about 6 episodes in to the first season, so we are in for a nice run of this wonderful show.

Sir Humphrey is such a snake!

OH yes, my public TV station is KERA in Fort Worth/Dallas/Denton
channel 13