Yes, Prime Minister

Name: Yes, Prime Minister
Genre: Comedy

1986–1988, 2013BBC TwoGoldComedy

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The sequel that promotes Hacker to Number Ten, and the 2013 revival that recast the whole thing.

Yes, Prime Minister rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1–3, each running 32 seconds.

It arrived on BBC Two in 1986, when Great Railway Journeys, The Old Grey Whistle Test and Alas Smith and Jones were also on the network.

Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; Yes, Prime Minister did so once.

2 sequences113th most looked up of 248 in the 1980sIMDb ↗Official site ↗

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All 2 opening title sequences

Seasons 1–2

The BBC run kept the Gerald Scarfe caricature format of Yes Minister with new drawings for the promotion. No usable clip of it alone has been found — every upload searched was either the parent series' titles or an episode rip.

No footage of this sequence has been found yet.

Season 3

32s

The 2013 Gold revival's open, which drops the caricatures entirely for live-action Westminster. Fan upload.

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