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The Skeleton in the Cupboard

Yes Minister Series 2
Episode 3 of 8

Jim Hacker gets the better of Sir Humphrey over a crisis in Derbyshire. Adapted from TV with Paul Eddington. From October 1984.

MP Jim Hacker gets the better of Sir Humphrey over a crisis in Derbyshire.

Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.

Satirical sitcom centred around hapless MP Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and obsequious Bernard.

Written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn

It first ran on 麻豆社 TV between 1980 and 1984.

Jim Hacker 鈥�. Paul Eddington
Sir Humphrey Appleby 鈥�. Nigel Hawthorne
Bernard Woolley 鈥�. Derek Fowlds
Dr Cartwright 鈥�. Ian Lavender
Alex Andrews 鈥�. Clive Merrison
Civil Servant 鈥�. Peter Acre
Civil Servant 鈥�. Ellen McIntosh
The Man on the Train 鈥�. William Eedle

Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in October 1984.

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