When Hacker inadvertently lies to parliament, denying knowledge of a wiretap that his office authorized (and he therefore should have been informed of), he wants Sir Humphrey to back up his version if any questions are asked...

Determined to fix an ailing educational system, Hacker -- with the help of his advisor Dorothy Wainwright (Deborah Norton) -- comes up with a plan to abolish the education department...

Hacker finds himself in hot water when he's slated to speak at the British Theatre Awards on the very day his government's meager arts grants are announced...

Politics makes for strange bedfellows when Sir Humphrey joins forces with a radical political reformer (Gwen Taylor) to thwart Hacker's plans to make local government more democratic...

When a major banking scandal rocks the British capital, Hacker faces embarrassment at the Party Conference unless he moves quickly to respond...

The tragic death of the former prime minister means his uncompleted memoirs will remain just that -- good news for the current head of state, who uses the occasion of the state...

With the previous prime minister writing his memoirs, Hacker -- as chairman of the committee on security clearance -- has the power to approve sections...

With Northern England suffering from high unemployment, Hacker's employment minister comes up with a plan to ease the region's problems by transferring much of the military establishment there...

Sir Humphrey is forced to go on "gardening leave" after it's discovered that a recently diseased British intelligence officer had been passing secrets to the Russians -- charges Sir Humphrey had cleared the man of a decade past...

Hacker grapples with the diplomatic impossibilities of rescuing a British nurse imprisoned in the Middle East for smuggling a bottle of whiskey and attempts to fill a bishop's post from an entirely unsuitable list of candidates...