Yes, Minister

Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms that were transmitted by the BBC between 1980 and 1988. The setting was, at first, the private office of a government minister and, in the sequel, 10 Downing Street. All 38 episodes were written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn and all but one are 30 minutes in length.

Character list

Main characters

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• James "Jim" Hacker - Minister in the Department of Administrative Affairs; also Party Chair (in the special Party Games episode); then Prime Minister
• Sir Humphrey Appleby - Permanent Secretary of the Department of Administrative Affairs; then Cabinet Secretary
• Bernard Woolley - Jim Hacker's Principal Private Secretary throughout

Other characters

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• Frank Weisel - Jim Hacker's political advisor (in the first series of Yes, Minister)
• Dorothy Wainwright - Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (in the two Yes, Prime Minister series)
• Anne "Annie" Hacker - Jim Hacker's wife
• Lucy Hacker - Jim Hacker's daughter (seen only in the Yes, Minister Series One episode The Right To Know)
• Sir Arnold Robinson - Cabinet Secretary (in the three Yes, Minister series); then President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information
• Sir Desmond Glazebrook - Board member, then Chairman, of Bartlett's Bank; City of London banker and old friend of Sir Humphrey; becomes Governor of the Bank of England (in the Yes, Prime Minister Series Two episode A Conflict Of Interest) - played by Richard Vernon
• Sir Frank Gordon - Permanent Secretary to the Treasury (in the two Yes, Prime Minister series) - played by Peter Cellier
• Sir Frederick Stewart - Permanent Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (known as "Jumbo" to his friends) - played by John Savident
• George - Jim's Driver in five episodes of Yes, Minister - played by Arthur Cox