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Episode 5
Season 3, Episode 5
aired: Sat, Nov 21, 2009
After weeks of trading bitter blows in the press, DoSAC minister Nicola Murray MP and her shadow Peter Mannion MP are invited onto BBC Radio 5 Live for a debate on Richard Bacon's late-night call-in program, but when some breaking news threatens to make things difficult for the politicians, the program quickly turns into a call-in like no other.
Episode 4
Season 3, Episode 4
aired: Sat, Nov 14, 2009
The civil servants at DoSAC are preparing for a visit from the shadow minister Peter Mannion. For Mannion and his team, this informal pre-election briefing is a good opportunity. For Nicola Murray, it is just another distraction on a day when nothing seems to be going right. All she wants to do is get Glenn and Olly to kick-start the Fourth Sector Pathfinder Initiative. And then she gets a call.
Episode 3
Season 3, Episode 3
aired: Sat, Nov 7, 2009
Nicola Murray is stuck in a hotel bedroom with nothing but a laptop, a printer and a tiny kettle while she and Olly try to finish her speech for the annual party conference. It's not going well. But Glenn has brought in his secret weapon - Julie Price, tragic widow, people's champion and regional photo opportunity. Is this the breakthrough they need, or the start of a war with Malcolm Tucker?
Episode 2
Season 3, Episode 2
aired: Sat, Oct 31, 2009
Nicola Murray MP has only been secretary of state for just over a week, but already there is press speculation on how long she will last. And now someone at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship has completely wiped the immigration records of 170,672 people. Who's going to get the blame? And who's going to get the job of breaking the news to Malcolm?
Episode 1
Season 3, Episode 1
aired: Sat, Oct 24, 2009
It's reshuffle Day at Number 10. Nicola Murray is so far down the list of prospective ministers that Malcolm Tucker doesn't even have a file on her. But when the job at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship is turned down by everybody else, there's no option but to promote her to the Cabinet.
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Episode 3
Season 2, Episode 3
aired: Thu, Nov 3, 2005
In the midst of a chaotic office move, Hugh accidentally sends an expletive-littered email to an eight-year-old girl leading to a front page story in the national papers. His day quickly goes from bad to worse when he also 'accidentally' lies in front of the Education Select Committee, leaving Malcom to clean up the fallout.
Episode 2
Season 2, Episode 2
aired: Thu, Oct 27, 2005
Malcolm makes things difficult when an outside adviser arrives to inspect all the departments, and enlists his colleagues' help in getting rid of him. Meanwhile, Hugh is upset to discover that everybody is aware the Prime Minister's wife does not like him - a blow to his plans for a policy announcement that will impress her husband.
Episode 1
Season 2, Episode 1
aired: Thu, Oct 20, 2005
Junior Policy Advisor, Ollie Reeder finds himself the butt of all jokes after a one-night stand with his Opposition Shadow researcher while Hugh Abbot's ministerial visit to a factory goes horrendously wrong. Only Malcolm can help, but will he?
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Episode 3
Season 1, Episode 3
aired: Thu, Jun 2, 2005
The Minister thinks his Housing Bill has been a success. Unfortunately, the man at Number Ten thinks an empty apartment in London could poise a problem. Someone's going to have to resign.
Episode 2
Season 1, Episode 2
aired: Thu, May 26, 2005
The Minister for Social Affairs, Hugh Abbot, gets a very focused focus group in to tell him which one of two contradictory policies to go for. Meanwhile, Number Ten's enforcer, Malcolm Tucker is concerned the Minister is out of touch.
Episode 1
Season 1, Episode 1
aired: Thu, May 19, 2005
The newly appointed Minister for Social Affairs, Hugh Abbot is on his way to a secondary school in Wiltshire to announce a new policy. Unfortunately, he's ordered by Number Ten's communications' supremo, Malcolm Tucker to kill the policy stone dead. Hugh and his advisors have just forty minutes to come up with an extremely popular policy that costs nothing.
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Episode 3
The Thick of It: Episode 3
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
The internal e-mail system goes down as Hugh is trying to send an expletive-littered missive to Glenn about their dislike of educational adviser Roy Smedley. He ends up using his colleague's web-based address - and accidentally forwards it to an eight-year-old girl.
Episode 2
The Thick of It: Episode 2
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Malcolm makes things difficult when an outside adviser arrives to inspect all the departments, and enlists his colleagues' help in getting rid of him. Hugh is upset to discover that everybody is aware the Prime Minister's wife does not like him - a blow to his plans for a policy announcement that will impress her husband.
Episode 1
The Thick of It: Episode 1
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Abbot visits a factory, where he is harangued by a woman employee who wants to make a public point about the treatment of her ailing mother. The whole incident is captured by TV cameras and it is up to Malcolm Tucker to try and stop ITN running the footage.
