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Wogan Talk Show: Felicity Kendal interviews Paul Eddington

BBC's Breakfast Time interviewed six former Cabinet Ministers and Jonathan Lynn on how Jim Hacker will fare in Number 10.

One of many celebrity messages to Noel Edmunds's Christmas Morning with Noel show, which BBC aired on December 25, 1987

Series opener as Jim Hacker rises to the position of Prime Minister.

S0 · E6Comic Relief short 1986-04-25 · 2 min＋

A two-minute introduction to the first ever Comic Relief event saw Paul Eddington, in character as Prime Minister Hacker, address the nation on the subject of charitable giving and its preferential nature to government handouts to charity. It was the only video insert in the show, which was performed at London's Shaftesbury Theatre on 4-6 April 1986. An edited highlights programme, including Hacker's address, was broadcast by the BBC on 25 April.

S1 · E1The Grand Design 1986-01-09 · 30 min＋

With his finger now on the nuclear button, Hacker plans his first act as Prime Minister to be a radical new defence policy.

S1 · E2The Ministerial Broadcast 1986-01-16 · 30 min＋

Jim is coached in the world of show business as he prepares to address the nation on his defence policy.

S1 · E3The Smoke Screen 1986-01-23 · 30 min＋

Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.

S1 · E4The Key 1986-01-30 · 30 min＋

Office politics take precedence over national issues when Sir Humphrey and Bernard fall out with each other after Jim tries to restrict Sir Humphrey’s access to №10.

S1 · E5A Real Partnership 1986-02-06 · 30 min＋

Sir Humphrey tries to get his scheduled pay raise even though increases for M.P.s have been put on hold for budgetary reasons.

S1 · E6A Victory for Democracy 1986-02-13 · 30 min＋

Jim must take action to avert a Marxist takeover of a Commonwealth island nation despite the efforts of the Foreign Office to keep him ignorant.

S1 · E7The Bishop’s Gambit 1986-02-20 · 30 min＋

Jim has to choose a new bishop but doesn’t like either the Church or Sir Humphrey’s choices.

S1 · E8One of Us 1986-02-27 · 30 min＋

Hacker threatens to place Sir Humphrey on leave while a security inquiry looks into why he cleared a confessed Soviet spy many years earlier, so Sir Humphrey retaliates with a dog in distress on Salisbury plain.

S2 · E1Man Overboard 1987-12-03 · 30 min＋

Sir Humphrey makes Jim suspicious of the Minister of Employment when he needs the P.M.’s support in opposing a plan to shift military personnel from the south to the north of England.

S2 · E2Official Secrets 1987-12-10 · 30 min＋

Jim considers approving the publication of his predecessor’s memoirs, but it becomes a plumber’s nightmare as a series of leaks spring up.

S2 · E3A Diplomatic Incident 1987-12-17 · 30 min＋

Jim uses the occasion of his predecessor’s state funeral to negotiate with the French over the conditions of the Channel Tunnel.

S2 · E4A Conflict of Interest 1987-12-24 · 30 min＋

Hacker and Sir Humphrey clash over the appointment of the governor of the Bank of England and the cover up of a banking scandal in the City.

S2 · E5Power to the People 1987-12-31 · 30 min＋

Sir Humphrey makes a very strange ally out of the formidable Agnes Moorhouse, a radical political reformer from a London council, in his efforts to stop Hacker’s plans to make local government more democratic.

S2 · E6The Patron of the Arts 1988-01-01 · 30 min＋

Jim Hacker faces embarrassment when Sir Humphrey tells a friend in the arts that the PM's government is planning to cut grants.

S2 · E7The National Education Service 1988-01-08 · 30 min＋

Sir Humphrey faces a conflict of interest when Hacker devises a plan to improve educational standards by abolishing the Department of Education and Science.

S2 · E8The Tangled Web 1988-01-28 · 30 min＋

Sir Humphrey has to decide if he will support the P.M. or inform Parliament when Hacker denies knowledge of a wiretap authorized by his office without his knowledge.