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Yes Minister is a British political satire sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn. It comprises three series of seven episodes each, first transmitted on BBC2 from 1980 to 1984. A sequel, Yes,
The three main characters in the Minister's Office of the Department of Administrative Affairs: from left, Sir Humphrey Appleby, Bernard Woolley and Jim Hacker
Gerald Scarfe's caricature of Paul Eddington as Hacker
Paul Eddington
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Paul Clark Eddington was an English actor who played Jerry Leadbetter in the television sitcom The Good Life and politician Jim Hacker in the sitcom Yes Minister and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. H
Yes Minister
…cabinet minister in the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in Whitehall, Yes Minister follows the ministerial career of Jim Hacker, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to formulate and enact policy or effect departmental changes are opposed by the British Civil Service, in particular his Permanent…
Eddington, c. 1980s