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With over 30 TV comedy themes to choose from be sure you visit
the rest of the website before leaving - click on Frames or No Frames to access the main menu. This web page is my tribute to an 80's classic - Yes
Minister. Are you old enough to remember life
under the Tory government? It seems like ages since we had Maggie
at the helm selling off such national treasures as the Gas and Electricity companies - still at least Sid made a few bob! It was
under this background of raging capitalism in the 80's that the
BBC hit on the idea of screening a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek
look at British Government represented by the fine satirical
sitcom, Yes Minister.
Yes Minister was another in a long line of comedy successes for the BBC. Starring Paul Eddington as the newly appointed Minister for Administrative Affairs, Jim Hacker, whose idealistic schemes were undone by double speaking all powerful civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby played by Nigel Hawthorne, ably assisted by Bernard Wooly played by Derek Fowlds. Set in 80's UK and written by Jonathon Lynn and Anthony Jay, the finely detailed scripts with their elaborate exchanges of dialogue attracted praise from both viewing public and TV industry critics alike. Winning three BAFTA Awards for Best Comedy and selling to over 40 countries - even politicians seemed to like it despite being pictured as supine idiots in control of the bureaucracy: indeed such was the admiration of the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that she enacted a scene with Eddington in Yes Minister character at the National Viewers and Listeners Awards in 1986.
Yes Minister remains popular to this day and enjoys re-runs all over the world. It first appeared on British Television in 1980 and ran for three seasons between the years 1980-82. During this time 21 x 30 minute episodes were broadcast together with a 45 minute special. Now available on a number of BBC videos, the satirical humour is still valid even to this day, thanks to the clever script writing and fine acting. The sequel, Yes Prime Minister, ran 1986-1988 with a total of 16x30 minute episodes being shown. It was uncanny that the screening of these episodes usually preceded a real life event depicted on the show only days before! The new show lost one of the central comic principles of Yes Minister which was Hacker's in built fear of damaging his prospects of advancement. Nevertheless, it provided a half-hour of hilarity way above the norm of the British sitcom in the eighties. Not the least recognition of this was that Eddington and Hawthorne both received CBE's in the 1987 Honours List, while Anthony Jay was knighted in the same year. Such are the spoils of success!!
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Links to other Yes Minister web sites!
Here a few of the many links to other Yes Minister web sites on the net. If you find a worthy link please drop me a line so that I can add it to this links list for subsequent visitors to explore.
Visit Camiel Camp's Yes Minister web site.
Visit the Comedyzone's Yes
Minister web pages.
Visit the
Yes Minister Mailing List web page. Exchange views with other
devotees of this programme.
Visit
the Yes Minister Sound Bytes web page.
Buy
the Yes Minister Video Tapes - US market.
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The Yes Minister Desktop Theme is based on the classic BBC TV sitcom of the 80's. The Theme features themed start-up and shutdown screens, hi-colour (24-bit) desktop wallpaper, animated cursor set and new desktop icons. Also included are new windows sounds taken from Yes Minister episodes. As if that was not enough, we have included a full feature screensaver made using Screen Saver Deluxe. Instructions are provided in a Readme file and the whole theme is available in a convenient zip file to download.
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Theme Version 1.0 (1.60Mb)
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