That's why I love this show - Hacker is harassed, stressed and often ill-informed, but he's not stupid. He does get one over on Humphrey every so often, and it's a delight to watch when he does...

@heiveldboy

3 жыл бұрын

There's also a subtle character evolution: Hacker learns to play the game a lot better in Yes Prime Minister. Like in this episode we never know whether Hacker gets his way. It ends with Hacker and Humphrey reading the same lines from the same files, but we don't actually know what happens afterwards. In Yes Prime Minister we actually see Humphrey lose every now and again. They're more equal at that point.

@eamonstafford2056

3 жыл бұрын

@@heiveldboy Yes. Especially in a Victory for Democracy where he sends 1000 paratroopers to St Georges Island

@trisamudeshwar7184

3 жыл бұрын

In yes prime minister even hacker manipulates humphrey like in the last episode in which he forces humphry to agree with him publicly and say lies or when he manipulates the art gallery person into saying good things about him

@trisamudeshwar7184

3 жыл бұрын

@@eamonstafford2056 on a goodwill mission

@harishnunkoo509

3 жыл бұрын

A delight indeed

0:50 Bernard has the most perfect and appropriate smug smile of any government subordinate watching his superiors getting axed. This scene was perfect.

@billandyeng

3 жыл бұрын

dipro001 That’s why he was rewarded with permanent private secretary when Jim became PM. In fact the appointment was made when Jim was still waiting for the result of the party leadership contest!

@dipro001

3 жыл бұрын

@@billandyeng btw, not being familiar with the British system, if this were a real office, would Bernard be hypothetically be able to reach Sir Humphrey's position at the end of his career or was Bernard at a different class of employment?

@billandyeng

3 жыл бұрын

​@@dipro001 They are both civil servants. Sir Humphrey eventually became Cabinet Secretary, the highest-ranking civil servant. Bernard is a quite bit more junior, he would need to do a long stint as a departmental Permanent Secretary and have all the things go his way to reach the very top. It would take decades, and the vast majority simply don't get anywhere near the Cabinet. More importantly, someone like Bernard would really struggle to climb the ranks. He's simply too attached to the politicians and actually wants to do the right things.

@dipro001

3 жыл бұрын

ok so they are not of separate classes of civil servants? It is true that Bernard simply lacked the tact and was too old at this point to climb much further. I do get the rest. Thank you very much.

@nottmjas

3 жыл бұрын

@@billandyeng in the novelisation of the series, Bernard eventually gets appointed as Head of the Home Civil Service / Cabinet Secretary, ie Sir Humphrey's position in Yes Prime Minister.

I’m just imagining Humphrey in the middle of the night digging through mountains of paperwork trying to find these long buried proposals

😄😆 The look on Sir Humphrey's face. Nigel Hawthorne was a brilliant actor whether doing drama or in this case comedy.

@peterwest5525

3 жыл бұрын

Comedy ? This is a documentary.

@nudelsuppe2090

3 жыл бұрын

Whats the name of this show?

@peterwest5525

3 жыл бұрын

@dodeca hedron How do you know ? You don´t have a sense of humour !

@thomasmills339

3 жыл бұрын

You are right. I always thought both hawthorn and Eddison were remarkable at using facial expressions to replace three or four lines of dialogue. Never seen anything like it before

@CeticWales

2 жыл бұрын

@@nudelsuppe2090 Yes, Minister

The interviewer is surprised to receive a detailed and clear answer, the details in this show frighteningly fine and terrifyingly informative.

@eathr349

Жыл бұрын

I thought he'd planned to say nothing as always.

Pure Gold, hasn't dated and likely never will two of our finest performers in an absolutely classic dialogue, such a shame they aren't with us now, even though you know what's coming it's still an absolute delight, Paul, Nigel and Derek were so well cast in this show and the wit and wisdom of Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay just shines, I doubt any other group of actors and writers could have brought this to the screen...

Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne ... two of the finest actors of the 20th century. RIP...

@samsowden

2 жыл бұрын

and derek fowlds too

@Kalah_

2 жыл бұрын

@@samsowden Yes, indeed, I'll never forget his vulture impression... :D

Interesting. I'd always thought Sir Humphrey's expression "Courageous" was his top putdown, but it appears "Remarkable" may be one level higher. Superb comedy :)

@readsomebooks666

3 жыл бұрын

Courageous was for when he wanted Hacker to not do something. Remarkable was for when Hacker had gone and done it already.

@stephenphillip5656

3 жыл бұрын

"Bold and Imaginative" was another one. Humphrey-speak for "Hairbrained". Wonderful classic British comedy/documentary. "We shall never see its like again".

@trisamudeshwar7184

3 жыл бұрын

Controversial is when you will lose votes courageous is when you will lose the election

@procrastinatinggamer

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like "Remarkable" can be a multi-purpose piece of civil service jargon. In this case, I think it can be translated as "I just about shat meself in shock, ya bastard." :P

Two great British character actors on top form. Feeding off each other and soaking in the glory of each well written line.

"Well I uh I think it's checkmate." Lol

@nathanwilliams2152

9 ай бұрын

“IT CANT BE DONE!!!” 😂

Ordered the whole DVD Set. Wasn't disappointed

@stephenphillip5656

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy...

@warweezil2802

3 жыл бұрын

dodeca hedron Amazon have the complete box set of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister

@tygattyche2545

3 жыл бұрын

Have the set been lying around here for years and still haven't looked at it. In return, I probably soon saw all the episodes on KZread.

The ending, for those who don't know, is a role reversal as to how Sir Humphrey treated the Minister.

BBC's best production every.... It's the pinnacle of british comedy.... Sir Nigel Hawthorne is a legend.. The actors who played Jim Hacker, Benard, Mrs. Hacker, Sir Arnold, Ms. Wainwright and Sir Frank are fabulous too.... It is to television, what Mona Lisa is to paintings... I love the show and it's sequel Yes Prime Minister...

@jbas7525

3 жыл бұрын

pinnacle of any TV comedy in any language.

@eamonstafford2056

2 жыл бұрын

Sir Arnold (John Nettleton) is pretty good too....especially the time when he told Humphery off in one episode

One of the few times Hacker got the better of Humpey.

@alexanderbrown8921

4 жыл бұрын

He actually managed it a bit more frequently when he became PM.

@yubai1896

3 жыл бұрын

that's the reason I like it most in episode 1

@ahmedamine24

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderbrown8921 Being PM helps.

@michaelgrace1298

3 жыл бұрын

The key was a great episode

@trisamudeshwar7184

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgrace1298 yes humphry broke down completely

All the best comedy has an element of truth in it. I never really found Yes Minister funny as a kid, but now I'm a grumpy old git I find it hilarious! 🤩

@tricky778

3 жыл бұрын

It had a reputation for quoting private meetings 24 hours after the meeting was held

0:48 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA BERNARD'S FACE HAHAHAHAHA

That legislation is pretty much GDPR and the Data Protection Act.

@safebox36

3 жыл бұрын

Not even, it's closer to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 that was talked about for years before anything happened. Basically businesses and the government can't do anything with your data without you giving permission. Which is why you have to sign so many forms half the time. You can also make an inquiry into what data the government has on you and, depending on the circumstances, request that it be removed if false, incorrect, or incriminating to the point that you are unable to function as a member of society (such as being a suspect in a case without being convicted).

Checkmate !! Bad day in the office for Sir Humphrey

@jonathanfraser321

2 жыл бұрын

The proposals are those from the previous government- Hacker had help from the last minister earlier in the story. So all Humphrey did was find them Humphrey's mistake is not realising when governments and opposition agree it will happen- especially if the civil service wants to stop it! having also told Hacker he couldnt say what the previous governmet decided asks where Hacker's proposals came from.

Would love to have seen these two discuss the track and trace app.

This comedy never get outdated

"Ah. See me on the box last night, Humphrey?" :-)

@stephenphillip5656

2 жыл бұрын

"Yes, a quite..... *remarkable* ... performance if I might say so, Minister.* Sir Humphrey's ultimate put-down, but he knew he'd been out-manoeuvred.

such brilliant acting = Humphrey's mannerisms are excellent

Saw this episode today. Couldn't stop laughing at all. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bought this DVD and it was great.

This stuff is brilliant!

These actors are superb!!!

I loved those old TV sets lol.

Absolute classics

This is first time I see a freshly uploaded PM/Y,PM video! Also I was always told growing up not to blow the pencil sharpener or else it would blunt it.

@AlifNurfakhri

4 жыл бұрын

Only a civil servant could've make that comment 😜

Poor Humpy 🤣

love love love this

That is really great stuff!

Perfect

Best episode.

Good lawd, the ease with which Eddington and Hawthorne act their material is truly extraordinary.

Well played, Minister! 😆

Apparently this Is based on multi events that happened in the govement during the shows writing

@johnking5174

2 жыл бұрын

Correct - with information provided to the writers by Bernard Donoghue and Lady Falkender, both Labour Party advisers.

@dclark142002

2 жыл бұрын

And it predicted how the Berlin Wall would fall...

I love this stuff!! Stay Healthy Friends 🙏🌎☮️ 5th!!!

Love Humphrey and Hacker !

2:00 "A most remarkable performance" This works way more often than it should, most people will take such a non-committal answer as a compliment without noticing. Even rather sophisticated people who should know better. I suppose the counterparty's vanity does most of the work for you.

LOL! Minister ... can you hear me?

I really wish you would put the episode name and number in the description.

@danendrahartawan9268

3 жыл бұрын

Most definitely season 1 of Yes Minister, as Frank Weisel is in the show

@keversley

Жыл бұрын

Big brother was the name of the episode

Sir Humphrey looks like Ebenezer on Pinwheel.

This is the scene I was thinking of in early May when BoJo announced in the house his ambition to increase testing capacity to 200,000 per day, when they had been struggling to make it to 100,000. Ministry of Health officials must have fallen off their chairs in horror but BoJo committed them with his announcement 😁

@josephgonzalez_

4 жыл бұрын

TheRenaissanceman65 some things never change. Timeless classic. A unique evergreen sitcom documentary.

@BlueAxeRacer

4 жыл бұрын

As he should - Boris ain't going to sit by and tolerate the civil service doing their own thing like his predecessors.

@draconianTL

3 жыл бұрын

Pygmalion ha - that’s not the lesson given by Yes, Minister.

@BlueAxeRacer

3 жыл бұрын

@@draconianTL Bro, if anything is to be taken from this comedy it's the incompetence of the civil service owing to it's egregious interest to serve itself rather than the people on behalf of the elected representatives.

@Morsificator

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlueAxeRacer Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, I have served eleven governments in the past thirty years. If I had believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market, and passionately committed to going into it. I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel. And of denationalising it and renationalising it. On capital punishment, I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolishionist. I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac; but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving schizophrenic.

Only time I had been impressed with Hacker. He was at his best when he was acting with balls- bollocks, rather

@anonUK

3 жыл бұрын

"Bollocks" usually means "rubbish", unless in the phrase the "dog's bollocks". You act with balls, not bollocks.

@daemonartursson5952

3 жыл бұрын

@@anonUK thank you Bernard !!

Sharpening the pencil , the journalist forgot his blade

One strange thing I always noticed in Yes Minister. When this was filmed we were well and truely into the era of colour television YET on this show whenever you saw the Minister etc on a tv or an announcement on a tv it was always still in black and white.

@jeffberger6162

3 жыл бұрын

That was probably done at the insistence of the BBC to make sure that no one would confuse the fake interview with a real broadcast.

@mutfol

3 жыл бұрын

There is a practical reason for this: Whenever an analog colour tv camera films an analog colour monitor, is looks like the image on the monitor is "flickering". The tecnical explaination for this is too long to be done here; the short version is that the colour timing of the camera and the monitor does not sync up. This does not happen when filming a black and white monitor however, as there are no colours to sync. The production crew knew about this issue and avoided it by using a black and white television in the scenes.

YM makes politics a breath of fresh air.

GOOD STUFF THIS .... AS IN GOOD ... STUFF THIS ...

Which episode is this? I thought I watched them all, but I must have missed this.

@rhyfelaherwfilwrol6732

4 жыл бұрын

S01 Ep4 "Big Brother"

Which episode is it?

So good, Political comedy at it's finest!

Arguably the single best comedy series ever produced. Perfect scripting, perfect cast and a political education on top.

Haha

How prophetic in the 1980’s! GDPR and all of the 2020’s.

@tricky778

3 жыл бұрын

There was a data protection act before 2000

@peterd788

3 жыл бұрын

@@tricky778 I can remember when government departments in the UK couldn't use data on people held by other government departments. Now there are so many get out clauses that effectively tens of thousands of people in or out of the public sector with access to pretty much everything on an individual.

Probably the only time hacker won...

@JJVernig

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, and if you look the whole episode it was because the opposition had the same objective. So the civil service couldn't play both sides in the long game.

@peterbanderas8184

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, you are forgetting the time he had Applebee locked out of number 10 or when he had a recording of Applebee making some controversial statements off the record to a radio program.

@stephenphillip5656

3 жыл бұрын

There's a few others, notably "The Skeleton In The Cupboard" and "The Key" (that's Yes, Prime Minister).

@landochabod7

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenphillip5656 Also, "One of Us", where he nails Humphrey for his oblivious "internal inquiry" over the confessed KGB spy.

Why is Bernard smirking like that?

Which season/episode is this from?

@surquiza

4 жыл бұрын

Ritayan Nag Season 1 episode 4 Big Brother

Humpeyyy

Early 80's and they still were using b/w tv.

Was that Jasper Carrott?

I wonder, if MP (later PM, spoilers) Hacker could get his way on any policy simply by announcing it to the press. How come he doesn’t do this all the time, or at least more often? Not every policy is “Secret” or “Confidential” so it wouldn’t be a security matter. I’m surprised Hacker, or any Cabinet Minister, doesn’t do this more often.

@Lwis

Жыл бұрын

The Permanent Secretaries would have made the Ministers too busy to attend interviews with journalists to stop it.

I wonder why this was uploaded... 🤪

@kylenetherwood8734

4 жыл бұрын

It is a BBC comedy great

@JonatasAdoM

4 жыл бұрын

@@kylenetherwood8734 BBC Comedy Greatest

@flaghippo2978

4 жыл бұрын

@@kylenetherwood8734 or perhaps it was a reference to the current government?

@gwmitchell1980

4 жыл бұрын

flag hippo29 Poppycock The BBC is bound by a Royal Charter to be absolutely impartial. As are the Civil Service. Absolutely nothing to worry about at all. Enjoy the clip.

@flaghippo2978

4 жыл бұрын

@@gwmitchell1980ha. there are many connotations towards current affairs with this video and yes minister/pm. The civil service has to be the least self-interest thing in the world 😏.

Along came GDPR and this became fact

It's all about India RTI., This series way beyond the time.

I always like how the ministry can’t afford color televisions.

The English have the best comedy's

A scene which is rather apposite to today's politics

A time when this country was funny.

I think we’d be better off with Hacker running the show now rather than Buffon Boris and his puppet master dodgy Dom.

First!

@brontewcat

4 жыл бұрын

What is the virtue in being first unless you have something interesting to say

@kissoffire1

2 жыл бұрын

Your mom obviously didn't teach you if you have nothing intelligent to say, rather keep quiet...

@gabosz8649

2 жыл бұрын

@@kissoffire1 And urs didn't teach you not to answer something dumber than what has been already said.

Fabulous episode, and to think that within a generation the #BlairGovernment brought in such empowering legislation. #ForTheMany

@peterd788

3 жыл бұрын

It didn't, though. Blair introduced the Freedom of Information Act while simultaneously expanding the sharing of data between government departments and then topped it with the the "prejudicial to the effective conduct of public affairs" exemption. It was a scam.

3rd to comment

This series should be compulsory viewing at schools for young people to equipe themselves for the blatant distortion, bias, ambitions and lust for power in both media and politics. Every opportunity for the common man to call out complete b*llsh*t should be taken at every opportunity. One word regarding the lessons to be learned watching this series. BREXIT