I love how Hacker evolves during this series from an idealistic, but clueless former editor, to a wily, seasoned, effective politician.

We gave the architect a knighthood so no one would ever say that🤣

"The universities...both of them" 😂😂 The PM will be upset to know his LSE wasn't included haha

"Half of them are your enemies anyway and the other half are the sort of friends that make you perfect for your enemies." Love it. Politics summed up in one sentence.

Great Comedy requires two things: great writing and great performance. The writing here is superb, but the brilliant actors took those words and made them something incredible. This quality is so rare. Rare now and rare then too. Love it.

22:36 she called him Humpy! That is hilarious. A lot of people in the comments are almost surprised at how clever this show is - that's because it's a timeless example of brilliant writing, acting and of Britishness

I absolutely watching Hacker gain the advantage every so often. It feels like a real victory every time it happens.

Genius. Absolute genius.

This masterpiece’s longevity was that it emphasizes the real-world corruption with fictional solutions. 😂

Universities........both of them!! 🤣🤣

I love this show. JIM HACKER should be Prime Minister now!! We need him, Humphrey and Bernard.

25:31: Honesty always gives you the advantage of surprise in the House of Commons. So true and it still cracks me up every time I hear it.

Ironically so many things are relevant still to this day! A brilliant comedy which was so underrated

Timeless, clever, unmatchable

Hacker really outplayed the National Theatre guy

This series was Brilliant in every way

I live in Poland. I watch politicians in medias, I have friends who work in public service and I'm shocked how accurate this series is. Different age, different geopolitical reality, different cultural circle, different country... but the mechanisms are exactly the same. This show never gets old! I got all seasons on DVD!

“Shall I be mother?” Always cracks me up 😂

it makes my stomach churn that after all these years nothing has changed.

It actually was margret thatchers favorite program in the 80s . She admited that in an interview . The only time i ever agreed with anything she said

When Hacker has Humphrey and the director of the National Theatre by the short and curlies is one of the best scenes in the series! Not often it ends up Hacker: 1 Humphrey: 0 !!!

A global timeless comedy, tragedy, reality…and I can’t get enough of it 😂 😂😂😂😂…🧐

Honesty is a surprise in the house of commons.Brilliant.

That guy with glasses appeared in Doc Martin as a singer who lost his voice. What Humphrey said about unemployment is SO TRUE in Australia!

Masterful writing and acting and hilarious

How did they ever learn to memorize those long sentences with so many convulusions. Brilliant, just brilliant!

"We gave the architect a knighthood" - Absolute gold.

The universities - both of them 😅

The most illuminating documentaries about privilege ever produced... as relevant today as they ever were.

I truly hope that everyone realizes that this show is not just relevant to the United Kingdom. I've never even landed on Great Britain, nor Ireland, but I find the dialogue hilarious.

The piece about the content of the school curriculum seems particularly insightful for the time, given what many young people are like when they leave university now... Satire to reality in 25 years!

Shame the BBC can’t make any programmes like this any more .

Thank you for still uploading clips from my favourite series.

Half a pound of margarine probably costs about £2.40 these days.

This is British democracy bernard. British democracy recognises that you need a system to protect the important things of life and keep them out of the hands of the barbarians. Things like Opera, Radio3, Countryside, the law, the universities (both of them) and We are that system.

I remember Watching this back in the 80s , it's so Sad that all Three have past on, .but it is a long time ago, Still So So Funny 🤣

Reaaaaallly? 😂😂😂

This is so currently appropriate even when years old. Never sure if politics never moved or we have circled back to these issues.

Not a comedy more of a documentary. It will never get old.

Timeless TV. 😂😂😂Hilarious at first then you realize the chicanery and buffoonery in governments in many places are even worse. Great scripts; even greater delivery.

Great series

5:10 Fruitful indeed, Sir Humphrey, fruitful indeed.

Best of all Political Comedic paradies

I was born about the time this was made. I thought politics had changed since I got older. This is as relevant now as it was then.

Boldly, one might imagine that no BBC type comedy show was so prescient, so advanced, so aware, so balanced, so bloody good as to be worth serious watching after nearly a half century of bathing in preposterous pungent poo of preposterous puerile pathetic profiteering pretensions to the public.

"parents are the worst people to bring up children" as a teacher, truer words have never been spoken

What was once a comedy show became an instruction manual...

Superb 😂👍

Agnes is so bloody cool 😂

Brilliant show.

14:16 Hacker wins, game set and match

This is a British democracy!

brilliant comedy!

This show is so funny yes prime minister 🎉 🇬🇧 so funny with such great lines With great questions. About the privileged and wealthy and successful families 🎉 🇬🇧 so much about the poor and needy🎉

So true for Indian intellectuals who wanted to keep power in their own hands

Top Episode Favourite One

Comedy magic, !

It is great that designers have gone for a Georgian look. Reminds me of Cheltenham Spa. However in the centre, I would have a park, a lake and a Church modelled on 12th or 13th Century. The pebble dash exterior renderings are going need to be repainted frequently and we could have some wonderful Tobermory colours.

Yes, (prime) minister, the Ronnie O'Sullivan of British comedy.

He said it wasn't him but even if it was he's prepared to pay it back

I'm legitimately curious to find out how much half a pound of margarine cost at the time.

What makes this even more funny 😂 is know days he would be fact checked . This is how Boris eventually went down , you just can’t do this anymore. If you quote one of your speeches from three months ago it had better be accurate

21mins 55 secs onwards is something I would like to see happen

Watch Dogs Legion in a nutshell, but with a laugh-track. 😆

Mrs Thatcher’s favourite TV programme!

I just noticed that Agnes is wearing a man’s shirt. This isn’t a comedy; it’s a documentary.

Holds true for 21st century India

Calculator and brainculator should work along as to check per calculation accuracy indeed.

"Agnes" is talented...and not bad looking.

I can't tell if the places he said could be offices, were real or made up😂

Fantastic

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Funny

Fly on the wall documentary. But more interesting

漢弗萊翻車了w

Agnes would be a hero in modern times haha

A Docudrama

Isn't that democracy ? Its a British democracy

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I think that even today asking anyong what the price of something at the supermarket is just stupid. Most people anywhere couldnt asnwer that question

3:19 Humphrey has many estimable qualities, but he can't make cup of tea It's like pee

Really...

It isn't a comedy. It is a satire of the highest quality. Never tired to watch it again and again. It was relevant for the the eighties and it is relevant for today. The only difference is that the governments became less accountable and more corrupt. Since the release of the series governments have concentrated even more power in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats who became a new class in our society. It is becoming even worse as more people accepting socialist agenda. America is moving towards fascism as a branch of socialism. Democratic socialism is an oxymoron. Socialism exists only in two forms: communism (government ownership of production and distribution control) and fascism (government control of production). Fascism is a preferable system as long as it is free from extreme nationalism. Both systems eventually lead to militarism. It isn't complicated and even poorly educated people can understand it if they put a little effort to think about it. Those who try to complicate those systems are liars brainwashing people with utopian ideas without any basis in reality.

Gwen Taylor was a good looking woman in the 1980s

Brillant the best english comedy very good actors

Let them eat cake, let them watch comedy. sheeple

So £100 a week was regarded as poor in those days. How much is the state pension nowadays?

Humphrey was so right.

😅😅😅😅😅😅

Oh no, shes one of those.

This (40 years ago) is civilisation devolving from the age of Empire. Now, after decades in the EU?

The trouble with socialism is what happens when the politicians run out of spending other people’s money.

Such a shame the BBC is now so cowed by government.

What an appolling woman!

I would never have a problem being called dear lady think it is respectful , nor being called by a guy a term of endearment I like it very much . Women get so very stupid about this feminist garbage and sexism , what about them they are no better themselves . This show is fantastic current in the time it was made but very much also ahead of its time as well . The whole casting was fantastic and story line even Mrs Thatcher was a fan of both Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister . Gwen Taylor who played Agnes Moorhouse like that play on Agnes Moorehead in case no one caught on to it those who do not know who Ms Agnes Moorehead is a very famed US actress , she was very beautiful and did a lot of great things and is so very talented

Will they be able to fix this if I go somewhere else or will I have to continue to be raped and robbed and impersonated

Captain Tom was a decent and very well meaning old man and thoroughly deserving of our respect but I never got good vibes from his daughter. I think it's important we don't allow the very questionable actions and motives of his daughter to sully his reputation. Lovely cat.

As much as I hate government expenditures. This women at the beginning is absolutely unbearable

I know this is comedy but... it is making me cringe as it hits too close to home in our current climate. Is this part of the curriculum for aspiring politicians? Is it disinformation?

FOR LESS CORRUPTION VOTE FOR AL CAPONE, FOR LESS LIES VOTE FOR PINOCCHIO,SHAME ON THE EXPLOITERS