Episodes 6

1 Paul Eddington A Life Well Lived (BBC)

30m

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2 Paul Eddington Interviewed by Felicity Kendal

January 13, 1986

9m

Wogan Talk Show: Felicity Kendal interviews Paul Eddington

3 BBC Breakfast Time Cabinet Ministers Interview

January 9, 1986

13m

BBC's Breakfast Time interviewed six former Cabinet Ministers and Jonathan Lynn on how Jim Hacker will fare in Number 10.

4 Christmas Morning with Noel Show

December 25, 1987

1m

One of many celebrity messages to Noel Edmunds's Christmas Morning with Noel show, which BBC aired on December 25, 1987

5 Party Games

December 17, 1984

1h 1m

Series opener as Jim Hacker rises to the position of Prime Minister.

6 Comic Relief short

April 25, 1986

2m

A two-minute introduction to the first ever Comic Relief event saw Paul Eddington, in character as Prime Minister Hacker, address the nation on the subject of charitable giving and its preferential nature to government handouts to charity. It was the only video insert in the show, which was performed at London's Shaftesbury Theatre on 4-6 April 1986. An edited highlights programme, including Hacker's address, was broadcast by the BBC on 25 April.

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