Concept and creative process
Titles for a satirical sitcom series set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, played by Paul Eddington, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations. He is supported by Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Minister’s permanent secretary, played by Nigel Hawthorne and by Bernard Woolley, his Principal Private Secretary, played by Derek Fowlds. The titles and music for this first show of the new series were a replacement for the titles commissioned by the production from Gerald Scarfe, as the final version of Scarfe’s titles and the title music had not been finalised by the time of the series launch.