Season 1
8 episodes · first aired 1986-01-09
| Still | # | Title | Overview | Air date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 01 | The Grand Design 1986-01-09 | With his finger now on the nuclear button, Hacker plans his first act as Prime Minister to be a radical new defence policy. | 1986-01-09 | 8.0 |
 | 02 | The Ministerial Broadcast 1986-01-16 | Jim is coached in the world of show business as he prepares to address the nation on his defence policy. | 1986-01-16 | 7.8 |
 | 03 | The Smoke Screen 1986-01-23 | Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department. | 1986-01-23 | 9.3 |
 | 04 | The Key 1986-01-30 | Office politics take precedence over national issues when Sir Humphrey and Bernard fall out with each other after Jim tries to restrict Sir Humphrey’s access to №10. | 1986-01-30 | 10.0 |
 | 05 | A Real Partnership 1986-02-06 | Sir Humphrey tries to get his scheduled pay raise even though increases for M.P.s have been put on hold for budgetary reasons. | 1986-02-06 | 8.5 |
 | 06 | A Victory for Democracy 1986-02-13 | Jim must take action to avert a Marxist takeover of a Commonwealth island nation despite the efforts of the Foreign Office to keep him ignorant. | 1986-02-13 | 7.5 |
 | 07 | The Bishop’s Gambit 1986-02-20 | Jim has to choose a new bishop but doesn’t like either the Church or Sir Humphrey’s choices. | 1986-02-20 | 7.0 |
 | 08 | One of Us 1986-02-27 | Hacker threatens to place Sir Humphrey on leave while a security inquiry looks into why he cleared a confessed Soviet spy many years earlier, so Sir Humphrey retaliates with a dog in distress on Salisbury plain. | 1986-02-27 | 8.5 |
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