Yes Minister: The Greasy Pole

Air Date

Monday March 16, 1981

Production Code

LLCL041A

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• Guest Cast

  • Shelia Fay Woman protester
  • Freddie Earlle Sir Wally Mcfarland
  • Jerome Willis Professor Henderson
  • Geoffrey Toone R.A.Crichton
  • Robert Dougall Newsreader
  • Maureen Stevens Mrs. Crichton
  • Lindy Alexander BBC Reporter
  • Brenda Blethyn Joan Littler MP

• Musics

  • Ronnie Hazlehurst Music

• Writers

  • Antony Jay Writer
  • Jonathan Lynn Writer

• Directors

  • Peter Whitmore Director

• Stars

  • Derek Fowlds Bernard Wooley
  • Paul Eddington Rt Hon James Hacker
  • Nigel Hawthorne Sir Humphrey Appleby
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• Humphrey: Minister, a Minister can do what he likes.
  Hacker: It's the people's will. I am their leader. I must follow them! [edit]

• Hacker: The greasy pole is important. I have to climb it.
  Humphrey: Why?
  Hacker: Because it's there.
  
  Refers to George Mallory's famous 1924 answer to the question of climbing Mount Everest. Mallory was killed later that year attempting to climb Everest. [edit]