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Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Jan 10 2005, 05:35 AM
The scary part was Maggie Thatcher saying if you want a truthful account of Gov't/Politics , watch that show , its totally accurate
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was so taken by the Yes Minister series, that she wrote a sketch herself (together with her Press Secretary Bernard Ingham). In it she played the Prime Minister, Paul Eddington was playing Jim Hacker (Minister of the Department for Administrative Affairs) and Nigel Hawthorne played Sir Humphrey (Permanent Secretary of the Department for Administrative Affairs). It was played on the National Viewers and Listeners Awards 1984. Below is the script of this sketch and some excerpts in RealVideo.
http://www.yes-minister.com/video/thatcher.ram
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They were brilliant actors/scripts/shows.. they did the same sort of gags week after week.. and managed to keep it funny for years!