Episode 1
With his finger now on the nuclear button, Hacker plans his first act as Prime Minister to be a radical new defence policy.
Episode 2
Jim is coached in the world of show business as he prepares to address the nation on his defence policy.
Episode 3
Jim favors abolishing smoking through heavy taxation but runs into strong opposition from the tobacco lobby and the Treasury department.
Episode 4
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.
Episode 5
Sir Humphrey tries to get his scheduled pay raise even though increases for M.P.s have been put on hold for budgetary reasons.
Episode 6
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.
Episode 7
Jim has to choose a new bishop but doesn’t like either the Church or Sir Humphrey’s choices.
Episode 8
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.
