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Yes, Prime Minister - The Complete Series 2 [1986] | ![Yes, Prime Minister - The Complete Series 2 [1986]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PW1B1AMGL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Sydney Lotterby
Actors: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne
Studio: BBC
Category: Video
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Rating:  1 reviews
Format: Hifi Sound, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 224 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.7 x 2.4
EAN: 5014503479121
ASIN: B00004CMJA
Theatrical Release Date: January 9, 1986
Release Date: September 21, 1992
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's superb sitcom Yes, Prime Minister entered 10 Downing Street with Jim Hacker now Prime Minister of Britain, following a campaign to "Save The British Sausage". Whether tackling defence ("The Grand Design"), local Government ("Power To The People") or the National Education Service, all of Jim Hacker's bold plans for reform generally come to nothing, thanks to the machinations of Nigel Hawthorne's complacent Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey (Jeeves to Hacker's Wooster) who opposes any action of any sort on the part of the PM. This is usually achieved by discreet horse-trading. In "One Of Us", for instance, Hacker relents from implementing defence cuts when he is presented with the embarrassingly large bill he ran up in a vote-catching mission to rescue a stray dog on an army firing range. Only in the final episode of series two, "The Tangled Web", does the PM at last turn the tables on Sir Humphrey. Paul Eddington is a joy as Hacker, whether in mock-Churchillian mode or visibly cowering whenever he is congratulated on a "courageous" idea. Jay and Lynn's script, meanwhile, is a dazzlingly Byzantine exercise in word-play, wittily reflecting the verbiage-to-substance ratio of politics. Ironically, Yes, Prime Minister is an accurate depiction of practically all political eras except its own, the 1980s, when Thatcher successfully carried out a radical programme regardless of harrumphing senior civil servants. --David Stubbs
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One of the best communication Videos EVER!! January 16, 2001
dhillier@visionict.com (Exeter, Devon, UK)
8 out of 24 found this review helpful
Having just completed a Business course at college and now running my own business. I just can't get enough of "Yes, Prime Mister" It show how people can used there communisation skills to manipulate what people think and what they say... Which is fascinating. (Well I think it is)It's just great... If you haven't seen it then it's a must... Your end up wondering if that's really how the government is nowadays...
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