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Broadcast on the BBC between 1980 and 1988, the television series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister depicted, in a comic tone, the conflicts within the higher circles of the State. In this article, the representation of the political world and of the high officials, whose respective interests are shown as conflicting, will be analysed in the light of the context of the time and the role played by the media — especially the BBC. Yes, (Prime) Minister remained the product of its own time and reflected the main issues that concerned the United Kingdom in the 1980s, as well as the previous years, but the quality of the writing also confers the series a universal dimension, which gives substance to the hypothesis of an independent Corporation.