Yes, Prime Minister · S1 · E3
The Smoke Screen
Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.
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Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.
Season 1
1The Grand Design
30 minJan 9, 1986
With his finger now on the nuclear button, Hacker plans his first act as Prime Minister to be a radical new defence policy.
2The Ministerial Broadcast
30 minJan 16, 1986
Jim is coached in the world of show business as he prepares to address the nation on his defence policy.
3The Smoke Screen
30 minJan 23, 1986Now viewing
Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.
4The Key
30 minJan 30, 1986
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.
5A Real Partnership
30 minFeb 6, 1986
Sir Humphrey tries to get his scheduled pay raise even though increases for M.P.s have been put on hold for budgetary reasons.
6A Victory for Democracy
30 minFeb 13, 1986
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.
7The Bishop’s Gambit
30 minFeb 20, 1986
Jim has to choose a new bishop but doesn’t like either the Church or Sir Humphrey’s choices.
8One of Us
30 minFeb 27, 1986
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.