Nigel Hawthorne as Humphrey Appleby

Episodes 16

We don't have an overview translated in English. Help us expand our database by adding one.

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

Party Games

0%
December 17, 19841h 1m
0x5

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

0x3

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

The Grand Design

75%
January 9, 198630m
1x1

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

0x2

Wogan Talk Show: Felicity Kendal interviews Paul Eddington

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

The Ministerial Broadcast

70%
January 16, 198630m
1x2

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

The Smoke Screen

90%
January 23, 198630m
1x3

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

The Key

100%
January 30, 198630m
1x4

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.

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

A Real Partnership

80%
February 6, 198630m
1x5

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

A Victory for Democracy

70%
February 13, 198630m
1x6

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.

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

The Bishop’s Gambit

60%
February 20, 198630m
1x7

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

One of Us

70%
Season Finale
February 27, 198630m
1x8

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.

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

Man Overboard

60%
December 3, 198730m
2x1

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.

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

Official Secrets

80%
December 10, 198730m
2x2

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

A Diplomatic Incident

80%
December 17, 198730m
2x3

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

A Conflict of Interest

70%
December 24, 198730m
2x4

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.

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

Christmas Morning with Noel Show

0%
December 25, 19871m
0x4

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

Power to the People

70%
December 31, 198730m
2x5

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.

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

The Patron of the Arts

70%
January 1, 198830m
2x6

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

The National Education Service

70%
January 8, 198830m
2x7

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

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

The Tangled Web

80%
Season Finale
January 28, 198830m
2x8

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.

Read More

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

Can't find a movie or TV show? Login to create it.

Global

s focus the search bar
p open profile menu
esc close an open window
? open keyboard shortcut window

On media pages

b go back (or to parent when applicable)
e go to edit page

On TV season pages

(right arrow) go to next season
(left arrow) go to previous season

On TV episode pages

(right arrow) go to next episode
(left arrow) go to previous episode

On all image pages

a open add image window

On all edit pages

t open translation selector
ctrl+ s submit form

On discussion pages

n create new discussion
w toggle watching status
p toggle public/private
c toggle close/open
a open activity
r reply to discussion
l go to last reply
ctrl+ enter submit your message
(right arrow) next page
(left arrow) previous page

Settings

Want to rate or add this item to a list?

Login