Yes, Prime Minister (Seasons 1–2)

Yes, Prime Minister (1986) is the BBC's razor-sharp political satire you can watch online on iFILM. The bumbling Jim Hacker stumbles all the way to Number 10 Downing Street, only to discover that the keys to the country are held by someone who never stood for election.

On paper the Prime Minister runs everything. In practice, every good intention runs straight into Sir Humphrey Appleby, the unflappable Cabinet Secretary who can bury any reform under a landslide of polite verbiage and endless committees. Nigel Hawthorne plays Sir Humphrey as a grandmaster of obstruction, while Paul Eddington's Hacker genuinely wants to do the right thing and keeps losing the war to the machine. Caught in between is private secretary Bernard (Derek Fowlds), forever torn between loyalty and common sense.

This sequel to the celebrated Yes Minister is widely rated among the finest political comedies television has produced — Margaret Thatcher herself was reportedly a devoted fan. The writing ticks along like clockwork, and Sir Humphrey's marathon sentences beg to be rewatched. Perfect for anyone who loves dry British wit and suspects that real power lives in the corridors, not at the dispatch box. Stream every episode of Yes, Prime Minister online on iFILM.