Jonathan Lynn
Director
Yes Minister (1980)
Series 2
The Rt Hon. Jim Hacker MP and Sir Humphrey step out again for the second series of the Whitehall waltz.
Released Feb. 25, 1980
Episode 30 min
10+
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Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - The Compassionate Society
When Jim learns that a brand new hospital still has no medical staff, but hundreds of civil servants working there, he proposes that half of the civil servants be sacked and use the money saved to open wards with medical staff.
Feb. 23, 1981, midnight
S2E2 - Doing the Honours
When Jim learns that he can block civil servant’s honours, he blackmails them into cutting their budgets, but when he hears that he might be in line for an honorary degree, he has to back down.
March 2, 1981, midnight
S2E3 - The Death List
When Jim learns that when in opposition he was bugged by the secret service, he decides to bring in legislation to kerb the bugging, only to find out that he is on the death list of a group of terrorist’s, and the best way to find them, is by bugging phone lines
March 9, 1981, midnight
S2E4 - The Greasy Pole
Jim has the chance of creating jobs, and saving a chemical company, when they are offered the chance to manufacture a highly dangerous chemical, but when the news gets out that it might be too dangerous, he has to back down.
March 16, 1981, midnight
S2E5 - The Devil You Know
When Jim is betrayed by a Cabinet colleague over his plans to bring in jobs for British workers, he thinks about leaving Westminster and becoming a European Commissioner, But when Sir Humphrey learns who his replacement will be, he tries to change Jim’s mind.
March 23, 1981, midnight
S2E6 - The Quality of Life
Sir Humphrey uses Jim’s promise to keep a popular city farm project open to get special permission for an additional nine floors on a proposed skyscraper.
March 30, 1981, midnight
S2E7 - A Question of Loyalty
Jim and Sir Humphrey pass the buck to protect each other when they appear before a select committee investigating charges of waste in Hacker’s ministry, until Jim’s higher loyalties are called upon.
April 6, 1981, midnight
BBC Two
30 min/ep
630 min
Feb. 25, 1980
Dec. 23, 1982, midnight
Ended
TV-PG / 10+
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