Yes, Minister

First episode of the acclaimed sitcom about an apparently clueless British government minister and the advisers who surround him.

The Minister has a plan to turn an official visit by the President of Buranda into a political party advantage. The Permanent Secretary dislikes the plan, especially when it precipitates an unforeseen crisis.

The idea of Pruning the Civil Service is a great political platform for the Minister, much to the chagrin of Sir Humphrey Appleby. Perhaps he can find a way to make the Minister abandon the policy.

Jim tries to implement a privacy safeguard for a new national computer database.

While battling one another on the Civil Service reduction issue, the Minister and Sir Humphrey learn of a plan that would adversely affect them both. They must now work together for the first time.

Are there occasions when a Minister should be kept in the dark? The question takes on new meaning when the Minister's daughter joins a group protesting his plans for administration of the countryside.

A departmental construction project is in progress but Sir Humphrey is being very evasive.