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Yes Minister Season 2 episodes
S02 E01
The Compassionate Society
30 mins · Mon, 23 Feb 1981
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.
S02 E02
Doing the Honours
30 mins · Mon, 2 Mar 1981
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.
S02 E03
The Death List
30 mins · Mon, 9 Mar 1981
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
S02 E04
The Greasy Pole
30 mins · Mon, 16 Mar 1981
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.
S02 E05
The Devil You Know
30 mins · Mon, 23 Mar 1981
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.
S02 E06
The Quality of Life
30 mins · Mon, 30 Mar 1981
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.
S02 E07
A Question of Loyalty
30 mins · Mon, 6 Apr 1981
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.