I can't believe...

Yes, nearly improbable but true.
I mean it's a show with the late great Nigel Hawthorne and the late great Paul Eddington in it!

I can't believe there aren't more posts too! This is one of my all time favorites and I'm thoroughly enjoying a run-through of all of them again thanks to the DVD set being at my local library. Great fun to get new fans to the show as well, showing it to relatives! I would have a hard time picking a favorite few episodes since I adore them all so much! It's really amazing how it 'holds up' so well to repeated viewings even after all these years because of the terrific quality of the show. Reminds me a little of the series Barney Miller (though very different of course) because both are set in very limited locales (just a couple of offices) and rely on the extensive dialogue to be really the whole show; and with both you continually find yourself so caught up in the acting you can almost not succeed for long in looking past the characters to see them as actors delivering lines, even when you try to.
Anyway, I was just rewatching episode "The Writing On The Wall" and couldn't help noticing how very familiar the actor who played Daniel, the PM's secretary, seemed. Not him per se but his face reminded me very much of someone else. It occurred to me at last: he looks extremely like Dominic Monaghan (Merry of The Lord of The Rings). Same facial bone structure around the mouth and way of speaking. I watched the end credits hoping to catch his name and who do I see listed but a "Daniel Moynihan"! I saw several listings for this name on the IMDB but I haven't seen any of those films to confirm it's the actor from the show, and the Yes Minister listings just give a couple of the actors who appeared in each episode rather than the entire list. I thought perhaps I might look their names up and see something like Dominic was the son of this actor or something, but apparently not. Still, with the similarity of their names I can't help wondering if this is a relation, perhaps distant due to the spelling variation but a relative nonetheless? They really do look quite alike, to me anyway. I guess no one here can probably shed any light but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

I just bought the entire series on dvd, it's one of the all-time classics. Each and every show is hilarious. As much as it was fiction, I think it gave an excellent picture of the "red tape" that you get with any government.

I'd like to see more of Nigel Hawthorne's work as well. He was brilliant as Humphrey, and was an excellent actor.

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