Hacker attempts to make big efficiency savings within the department.
This is another very funny episode with the craftiness of the civil service at the heart of it.
The plot has the usual Humphrey shenanigans with the added amusement of a great mistaken identity sketch and some great buffoonery from Hacker.
Civil service expenditure is a classic theme in which so much comedy can be drawn from. As you would imagine civil servants would treat such rhetoric from Hacker almost like a declaration of war and dig in like the infantry. Sir Humphrey, as always, is ready to run rings around him.
I love the dialogue which is brilliant as ever. Any discussions about the elected officials coming and going whilst the civil service endures always amuses. Humphrey's pearls of wisdom on MP's are fantastic. However, my favourite line of the episode has to be the outcome of the last 'time and motion study' conducted in the department.
All the stars are on great form as ever, with Paul Eddington having the most screen time.
8.5/10 for me but I round upwards.
This is another very funny episode with the craftiness of the civil service at the heart of it.
The plot has the usual Humphrey shenanigans with the added amusement of a great mistaken identity sketch and some great buffoonery from Hacker.
Civil service expenditure is a classic theme in which so much comedy can be drawn from. As you would imagine civil servants would treat such rhetoric from Hacker almost like a declaration of war and dig in like the infantry. Sir Humphrey, as always, is ready to run rings around him.
I love the dialogue which is brilliant as ever. Any discussions about the elected officials coming and going whilst the civil service endures always amuses. Humphrey's pearls of wisdom on MP's are fantastic. However, my favourite line of the episode has to be the outcome of the last 'time and motion study' conducted in the department.
All the stars are on great form as ever, with Paul Eddington having the most screen time.
8.5/10 for me but I round upwards.
