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Classic comedy from the days when the Civil Service had a sense of humour. The Men from the Ministry were the hilarious radio forerunners of TV’s Yes Minister – bungling bureaucrats who bungled for 15 glorious years from 1962 to 1977.
Muddling through were Wilfrid Hyde White, as the first head of the ubiquitous General Assistance Department, and the imperturbable Deryck Guyler, who followed him in 1966. Richard Murdoch was their faithfully incompetent Number Two. Together they created absolute chaos – and an enduring and influential Whitehall spoof. Here, with the help of guests like Warren Mitchell and Roy Dotrice, they mismanage a new road scheme, upset Britain’s space programme, confuse the export drive, and attempt to rescue a forgotten army unit.
Their potty exploits remain (in the inimitable words of the BBC announcer) “a tribute to the men of our Government service, those men who are sometimes compared to tea bags: they always stick together when they get into hot water”.
Quality of episodes vary but I will update them as better quality become available, and hopefully find the missing episodes destroyed by the BBC
Episode List
- S01E01 – The Great Footwear Scandal
- S01E03 – Strictly For The Birds
- S01E04 – French Cricket
- S01E05 – The War With The Isle Of Wight
- S01E06 – Moderately Important Person
- S01E07 – The Rhubarb Pirates
- S01E08 – A Matter of Form
- S01E10 – The Spy in Black & White
- S01E11 – Island in the Sun
- S02E01 – Pirates of Lakeview Reservoir
- S02E03 – The Trouble With Cecil
- S02E04 – Mahboni Lies Over the Ocean
- S02E05 – The Man Who Made It Rain
- S02E06 – Train Of Events
- S02E07 – Degrading Business
- S02E08 – The Butcher Of Glensporran
- S02E09 – Counter Spies
- S02E10 – A Question of Dundancy
- S02E12 – The Hole
- S02E13 – The Day The Martians Came
- S03E02 – Post Office Pantomime
- S03E03 – All At Sea
- S03E04 – Bowler Hats & Machine Guns
- S03E05 – On The Run
- S03E06 – A Gift For Sir Gregory
- S03E07 – Customs Of The Country
- S03E08 – Getting The Bird
- S03E09 – The Girl In The Case
- S03E10 – The Thing On The Beach
- S03E12 – The Fastest Ship In The World
- S04E01 – Battle Of The River Thames
- S04E02 – The Tubby Submarine
- S04E03 – A Matter Of Breeding
- S04E05 – Waterway to Go
- S04E06 – The Fastest Brolly in the West
- S04E07 – Lamb Takes a Gambol
- S05E02 – A Brush With An Old Master
- S05E03 – All Play & No Work
- S05E05 – The Ship That Wagged Its Tail
- S06E05 – Oil Well That Ends Well
- S06E06 – The Bigger the Better
- S06E07 – Trouble in the Air
- S06E08 – Miss Chatterly’s Lover
- S06E09 – A Little of What You Fancy
- S06E10 – A Bird In The Hand
- S06E11 – Bringing the House Down
- S07E02 – Thoroughly Modern Ministry
- S07E05 – Rotten to the Corps
- S07E06 – Transatlantic Trouble
- S07E09 – Gone To Pot
- S08E04 – Sorry Wrong Number
- S08E05 – The Desk Job
- S09E03 – Find The Lady
- S09E07 – Getting It Taped
- S09E09 – The Export Caper
- S09E10 – Flushed With Success
- S09E11 – Under the Weather
- S09E12 – Monkey Business
- S10E03 – Great Guns
- S10E05 – Ballet Nuisance
- S10E08 – Big Deal
- S10E09 – They Fry by Night
- S11E03 – All That Glitters
- S11E07 – The Great Trouser Troubles
- S11E08 – The Cabinet Crisis
- S11E12 – A Sense Of Power