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1.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
The Key
(1986)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy
Sir Humphrey has to scramble when the Prime Minister's Political Advisor, Mrs. Wainwright, convinces the PM that she should get her old office back. Sir Humphrey and his predecessors have ... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Peter Cellier
Votes: 417
2.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
The Spirit of Man
(1989)
Drama
In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.
Directors: Peter Barnes, Geoff Feld | Stars: Peter Bayliss, Dilys Laye, Clive Merrison, John Turner
Votes: 37
3.
Thomas and Sarah (1979)
Episode:
The New Rich
(1979)
60 min | Drama
Nouveau riche Sarah and Thomas have the use of the Andover townhouse, but their egalitarian attitude towards their servants is frowned upon by their butler Wilson.
Director: John Davies | Stars: Pauline Collins, John Alderton, Nigel Hawthorne, Barbara Hicks
Votes: 12
4.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
Party Games
(1984)
TV-Y | 61 min | Comedy
Sir Humphrey Appleby receives his just reward when he's told by Sir Arnold Robinson that he is to be his successor as Cabinet Secretary. Jim Hacker has mixed feelings about the whole thing ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Nettleton
Votes: 434
5.
Funny Turns (1999–2001)
Episode:
Paul Eddington: A Life Well Lived
(2001)
30 min | Documentary
A posthumous BBC tribute to the beloved British comedy actor Paul Eddington.
Director: Angela O'Leary | Stars: Richard Briers, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds, Peter Hall
Votes: 26
6.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
The Skeleton in the Cupboard
(1982)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The Minister is once again locking horns with Sir Humphrey, this time over a local Council's inability, or refusals, to submit its statistical reports. The local Council government belongs ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Ian Lavender
Votes: 357
7. Atatürk: Founder of Modern Turkey (1999)
52 min | Documentary, Biography
Examines the controversial legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the revolutionary Turkish leader.
Director: Tarquin Olivier | Stars: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nigel Hawthorne
Votes: 512
8.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
Big Brother
(1980)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy
The Minister wants to give citizens access to their files on a new national database, but Sir Humphrey is at his obfuscating best. Accused by his political advisor and his wife of being a ... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Robert Urquhart
Votes: 436
9.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
The Moral Dimension
(1982)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
While on an official visit to a Middle East sheikdom to finalize a major contract for a UK firm, the Minister manages to get himself into trouble on several fronts. Learning that the ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott
Votes: 345
10.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
The Tangled Web
(1988)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The Prime Minister finds himself in a bit of a pickle when he flatly denies in the House that the government has bugged MP's telephones. It turns out the government was and Sir Humphrey was... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Ludovic Kennedy
Votes: 265
11. Moonstrike (1963)
50 min | Drama, History, War
Anthology series of one-off thrillers about the covert activities of Allied agents and resistance operatives in occupied Europe during the Second World War.
Stars: Gary Hope, Michael Culver, John Murray Scott, Clive Russell
Votes: 20
12.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
A Question of Loyalty
(1981)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy
The Minister and Sir Humphrey must appear before a Select Committee looking into government waste. Sir Humphrey suggests a number of ways the Minister can evade difficult questions but ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Judy Parfitt
Votes: 324
13. Yes Minister (1980–1984)
TV-PG | 679 min | Comedy
The Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some long-needed reforms, or so he thinks.
Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott
Votes: 16,580
14. Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
James Hacker was propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - Number 10.
Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott
Votes: 12,939
15. Natural World (1983– )
60 min | Documentary
Strand of documentaries on wildlife and the environment.
Stars: David Attenborough, Barry Paine, John Shrapnel, Andrew Sachs
Votes: 777
16.
Mapp & Lucia (1985–1986)
Episode:
The Italian Connection
(1985)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Lucia and Georgie submits entries for the local art exhibition,which Mapp,a member of the judging committee,rejects,returning them to their owners. However Lucia hangs them in pride of ... See full summary »
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lill
Votes: 27
17.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
The Smoke Screen
(1986)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Sir Humphrey opposes P.M. Hacker's plan to cut taxes, so Hacker steers the Minister for Health into campaigning against smoking as a diversion.
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Barron
Votes: 307
18. The Good Companions (1980– )
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A musical adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel about a British concert party.
Stars: John Stratton, Jeremy Nicholas, Frank Mills, John Blythe
Votes: 39
19.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
Equal Opportunities
(1982)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy
With his wife's encouragement, Minister Hacker decides he should focus on accomplishing 1 or 2 significant achievements while in office. He decides the time has come to promote more women ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Eleanor Bron
Votes: 343
20.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
A Diplomatic Incident
(1987)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy
When the French hold out for primacy over a sub-Channel tunnel, P.M. Hacker uses the info that they planted a bomb in their own embassy to obtain more favourable terms.
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott
Votes: 305
21.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
A Victory for Democracy
(1986)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The Foreign Office is having problems with the PM who is starting to question their advice in favour of a more pro-US line. In question is the political situation on the island of St. ... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Clive Francis
Votes: 301
22.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
One of Us
(1986)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
When the Director General of MI5 informs the Prime Minister that his predecessor was a Soviet agent, Jim Hacker learns that he had been thoroughly investigated some years previously by none... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Michael Aldridge
Votes: 280
23.
Theatre Night (1985–1990)
Episode:
The Miser
(1988)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Moliere's great 1668 comedy is relocated to a provincial backwater in Victorian England. Harpagon, a miserable old skinflint, contracts with the matchmaker Frosine for the hand of the ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Simpson | Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Peter Chelsom, Kate Buffery, John Hudson
Votes: 15
24. Mapp & Lucia (1985–1986)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy
The social rivalry between two women in the 1930s when Lucia moves to the small English town of Tilling.
Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lill
Votes: 512
25. Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow (1998– )
Documentary, History
Documentary covering Stalin and the Soviet Unions war with Nazi Germany.
Star: Nigel Hawthorne
Votes: 214
26.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
(1981)
68 min | Comedy, Drama
"They're nice affable gobblers and we're in the nice affable gobbling business." Tom and Gwen soon find that their gastronomical retreat from the rat race is anything but an escape when the Porters come to dine.
Director: Baz Taylor | Stars: Christopher Benjamin, Gillian Martell, Paul Copley, Natasha Pyne
Votes: 9
27.
Mapp & Lucia (1985–1986)
Episode:
Lobster Pots
(1985)
TV-PG | 52 min | Comedy
Lucia sells her house in Riseholme and,after making Georgie her sole beneficiary in her will,she buys Grebe,a house a little outside the town on the marshes. Now a leading hostess in ... See full summary »
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lill
Votes: 31
28.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
The Compassionate Society
(1981)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
When the opposition challenges the Minister's claims in the House that administrative personnel in the health sector have been reduced by 11%, he too quickly agrees to an independent ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Barron
Votes: 363
29.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
The Grand Design
(1986)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The new Prime Minister is preoccupied with defense issues as he begins to learn some of the details, such as the Russians having six times as many nuclear weapons as the UK or that the ... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Frederick Treves
Votes: 333
30. Auntie's All-Time Greats (1996 TV Special)
125 min
Director: Stuart McDonald | Stars: Michael Parkinson, Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Lenny Henry
Votes: 16
31.
Going Straight (1978)
Episode:
Going Going Gone
(1978)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fletch is well-regarded at the hotel, though he is not too well off as his wages go on repaying Ingrid and Godber, now engaged, for loans. An old lady called Mrs. Appleby comes to the hotel... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia Brake, David Swift
Votes: 65
32.
Mapp & Lucia (1985–1986)
Episode:
Lady Bountiful
(1986)
TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy
Due to her investments Lucia is now a very wealthy woman and donates money to restore the Tilling church organ,an occasion which gives her full press coverage and grateful thanks within the... See full summary »
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lill
Votes: 24
33.
Mapp & Lucia (1985–1986)
Episode:
The Owl and the Pussycat
(1985)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Some months have passed and the Tilling residents assume that Mapp and Lucia are dead. Major Benjy,Mapp's heir,moves into her house from where he holds social events. Georgie erects a ... See full summary »
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lill
Votes: 28
34.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
The Bed of Nails
(1982)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The Minister yet again finds himself in it when the Cabinet Secretary and the Prime Minister's senior advisor con him into taking responsibility for developing a national transportation ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Nettleton
Votes: 297
35.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
The Writing on the Wall
(1980)
TV-PG | 28 min | Comedy
The Minister's frustrations with the civil service continue when Sir Humphrey, at his bureaucratic best, doesn't quite deliver the policy paper the Minister is seeking. Hacker wants to ... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Daniel Moynihan
Votes: 376
36.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
Man Overboard
(1987)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The Employment Secretary wants to move army regiments to north England to save money, so Sir Humphrey leads P.M. Hacker to believe the Employment Secretary is after the P.M.'s job.
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Nettleton
Votes: 288
37.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
The Bishops Gambit
(1986)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
P.M. Hacker is to appoint a new bishop, and Sir Humphrey may secure a cushy appointment on retirement if he can convince Hacker to appoint the current Dean to the bishopric.
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Frank Middlemass
Votes: 282
38.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
The Ministerial Broadcast
(1986)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Jim Hacker plans to introduce his "Grand Design" to the British public during his first broadcast as the new P.M. However, Humphrey continues to try to convince Hacker to hold off, planning to let it die.
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Wells
Votes: 313
39.
Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1987)
Episode:
A Real Partnership
(1986)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The Prime Minister must deal with a worsening financial crisis that requires all government Departments to cut their budgets. The belt-tightening coincides with a hoped-for civil service ... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Nettleton
Votes: 284
40.
Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
Episode:
The Abdication
(1978)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance
With all avenues now exhausted, King Edward VIII accepts his situation and proceeds with the abdication. In his broadcast to the nation, he appeals for understanding and tells his people ... See full summary »
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris, Peggy Ashcroft, Nigel Hawthorne
Votes: 18
41. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–2009)
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Conan O'Brien, a Harvard Lampoon alumnus, hosts this late-night comedy/talk-show, which is often silly and whimsical.
Stars: Conan O'Brien, The Max Weinberg 7, Andy Richter, Joel Godard
Votes: 18,981
42. Relatively Speaking (1989 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy
It's the sixties. Gregory loves Ginny, and Ginny loves Gregory. But unfortunately Ginny also loves Philip, or at least she used to, and Philip loves her. Does Philip love his wife too? ... See full summary »
Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Michael Maloney, Imogen Stubbs, Nigel Hawthorne, Gwen Watford
Votes: 28
43. The Last Polar Bears (2000 TV Short)
25 min | Animation, Short
The story of a grandfather's journey to the North Pole in a quest to see polar bears in their natural environment. With him goes Roo - a dog of character and strong views - and a golf-bag ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Simpson | Star: Nigel Hawthorne
Votes: 22
44. An Audience with Kenneth Williams (1983 TV Special)
60 min | Comedy
The British comedy star entertains a celebrity audience with stories of his life and career.
Director: Alasdair Macmillan | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Gyles Brandreth, Trevor Brown, Judith Chalmers
Votes: 122
45.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Flea Bites
(1991)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama
The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus.
Director: Alan Dossor | Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hill, Michelle Fairley, Tim Healy
Votes: 13
46.
Mapp & Lucia (1985–1986)
Episode:
Au Reservoir
(1986)
TV-PG | 52 min | Comedy
Lucia accompanies Georgie to London to hear his friend,opera singer Olga Braceley,perform. At the opera house they meet Poppy,the Duchess of Sheffield but she is more interested in Georgie ... See full summary »
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lill
Votes: 32
47.
Mapp & Lucia (1985–1986)
Episode:
Battle Stations
(1985)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Lucia is renting 'Mallards' from Mapp whilst she finds a place of her own and instantly angers Mapp when she and Georgie inform Mapp that her priceless Blumenfeld piano is little more than ... See full summary »
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lill
Votes: 30
48.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
Doing the Honours
(1981)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy
The Minister is appalled when, on the advice of his civil servants, he can't make a modest 5% to his department's budget. To Sir Humphrey's great disbelief, the Minister decides to ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Frank Middlemass
Votes: 331
49.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
The Challenge
(1982)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Following a re-alignment of responsibilities, Jim Hacker now finds himself the Minister responsible for local government authorities in addition to his existing duties. As one can expect, ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Nettleton
Votes: 304
50.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
The Devil You Know
(1981)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The Minister and Sir Humphrey debate the merits of UK membership in the European Community with Hacker definitely negative about interference from Brussels. He dislikes the constant steam ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Nettleton
Votes: 315