Yes, Prime Minister - The Complete Collection
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Actor: Derek Fowlds, Nigel Hawthorne, Paul EddingtonBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 534 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC
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Movie Review: Gets better with each viewing
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always been a big fan of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. The incredible thing is that when I had originally watched the series, I used to root for Hacker but later found myself taking some amount of sadistic glee over the manner in which Sir Humphrey gets his way. This series is one of the best ways to learn about politics, government and corridors of power in Britain. While the series has been abundantly exaggerated to create the element of comedy, sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. This is a series for intelligent viewers... each episode will seem better when you view it again.... there are far too many little details that you may not pick up on the first time round. Strongly recommend.
Summary of Yes, Prime Minister - The Complete Collection
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/22/2005 Run time: 534 minutesAntony 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 defense ("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 altogether. This is usually achieved by discreet horse-trading. In "One of Us," for instance, Hacker relents from implementing defense 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 Tangled Web," the final episode of series 2, 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 wordplay, 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 program regardless of harrumphing senior civil servants. --David Stubbs
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