List of The Men from the Ministry episodes

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This is an episode list of the British Radio comedy The Men from the Ministry. Dates shown are original air dates on initially the BBC Light Programme and later BBC Radio 4. The final (14th) series was originally recorded for distribution overseas and was not broadcast in the UK at the time.

1st Series 1962

with Wilfrid Hyde-White as "One" and Roy Dotrice as "Sir Gregory Pitkin" in this and second Series

 1.     1- 1     30-Oct-1962     The Great Footwear Scandal
 2.     1- 2      6-Nov-1962     The Big Rocket
 3.     1- 3     13-Nov-1962     Strictly for the Birds
 4.     1- 4     20-Nov-1962     French Cricket
 5.     1- 5     27-Nov-1962     The War with the Isle of Wight
 6.     1- 6      4-Dec-1962     Moderately Important Person
 7.     1- 7     11-Dec-1962     The Rhubarb Pirates
 8.     1- 8     18-Dec-1962     A Matter of Form
 9.     1- 9     25-Dec-1962     The Magic Carpet (missing - 2019)
10.     1-10      1-Jan-1963     The Spy in Black and White
11.     1-11      8-Jan-1963     Island in the Sun
12.     1-12     15-Jan-1963     Problem in the Park (missing - 2019)
13.     1-13     22-Jan-1963     The End of the Road (missing - 2019)

Christmas Special 1964

        S- 1     24-Dec-1964     A Present for Norman (missing - 2019)

2nd Series 1965

14.     2- 1     25-Jul-1965     Pirates of Lakeview Reservoir (end missing - 2019)
15.     2- 2      1-Aug-1965     Something about a Soldier
16.     2- 3      8-Aug-1965     The Trouble with Cecil (end missing - 2019)
17.     2- 4     15-Aug-1965     Mahboni Lies Over the Ocean (end missing - 2019)
18.     2- 5     22-Aug-1965     The Man Who made it Rain (end missing - 2019)
19.     2- 6     29-Aug-1965     Train of Events
20.     2- 7      5-Sep-1965     Degrading Business
21.     2- 8     12-Sep-1965     The Butcher of Glensporran (end missing - 2019)
22.     2- 9     19-Sep-1965     Counter Spies (end missing - 2019)
23.     2-10     26-Sep-1965     A Question of Dundancy 
24.     2-11      3-Oct-1965     A Back-dated Problem	
25.     2-12     10-Oct-1965     The Hole
26.     2-13     17-Oct-1965     The Day the Martians Came (end missing - 2019)

3rd Series 1966/7

with Deryck Guyler as "One" and Ronald Baddiley as "Sir Gregory Pitkin" in this and all subsequent Series

27.     3- 1     11-Dec-1966     Rebel in Regents Park (missing - 2019)
28.     3- 2     18-Dec-1966     A Terrifying Weapon (end missing - 2019) 
29.     3- 3     25-Dec-1966     The Post Office Pantomime
30.     3- 4      1-Jan-1967     All at Sea
31.     3- 5      8-Jan-1967     Bowler Hats and Machine Guns
32.     3- 6     15-Jan-1967     On the Run
33.     3- 7     22-Jan-1967     A Gift for Sir Gregory (end missing - 2019)
34.     3- 8     29-Jan-1967     The Whitehall Circus (beg. & end missing - 2019)
35.     3- 9      5-Feb-1967     Customs of the Country
36.     3-10     12-Feb-1967     Getting the Bird (beg. & end missing - 2019)
37.     3-11     19-Feb-1967     The Girl in the Case
38.     3-12     26-Feb-1967     The Thing on the Beach	
39.     3-13      5-Mar-1967     A Slight Case of Demolition
40.     3-14     12-Mar-1967     The Fastest Ship in the World (end missing - 2019)

4th Series 1968

41.     4- 1     12-Feb-1968     Battle of the River Thames
42.     4- 2     25-Feb-1968     The Tubby Submarine
43.     4- 3      3-Mar-1968     A Matter of Breeding
44.     4- 4     10-Mar-1968     The Great Showbiz Fiasco
45.     4- 5     17-Mar-1968     Up the Poll
46.     4- 6     24-Mar-1968     Waterway to Go
47.     4- 7     31-Mar-1968     Dam Nuisance (missing - 2019)
48.     4- 8      7-Apr-1968     The Fastest Brolly in the West
49.     4- 9     14-Apr-1968     Lamb takes a Gambol
50.     4-10     21-Apr-1968     Four Men in a Wellington - featuring Kenneth Horne and Sam Costa
51.     4-11     29-Apr-1968     Out of this World
52.     4-12      5-May-1968     Muddlers in Law	
53.     4-13     12-May-1968     What has four Wheels and flies? (end missing - 2019)

5th Series 1969

54.     5- 1     25-Mar-1969     A Rotten System - featuring Joan Sanderson
55.     5- 2      1-Apr-1969     A Brush With an Old Master (end missing - 2019)
56.     5- 3      8-Apr-1969     All Play and No Work (end missing - 2019)
57.     5- 4     15-Apr-1969     A Sticky Business
58.     5- 5     22-Apr-1969     The Home-Brewed Non-Vintage Bomb (missing - 2019)
59.     5- 6     29-Apr-1969     The Ship That Wagged Its Tail

6th Series 1970

60.     6- 1     30-Jun-1970     Bye-bye Mildred
61.     6- 2      7-Jul-1970     Bare Necessities - featuring Joan Sanderson	
62.     6- 3     14-Jul-1970     Storm in a Tea Urn - featuring Patricia Hayes
63.     6- 4     21-Jul-1970     The Moving Target
64.     6- 5     28-Jul-1970     Oil Well that Ends Well
65.     6- 6      4-Aug-1970     The Bigger the Better - featuring Clive Dunn
66.     6- 7     11-Aug-1970     Trouble in the Air
67.     6- 8     18-Aug-1970     Miss Chatterley's Lover - featuring John Laurie
68.     6- 9     25-Aug-1970     The Pudding From Outer Space (missing - 2019)
69.     6-10      1-Sep-1970     A Little of what you Fancy
70.     6-11      8-Sep-1970     A Bird in the Hand
71.     6-12     15-Sep-1970     Bringing the House Down
72.     6-13     22-Sep-1970     Fair Exchange
73.     6-14     29-Sep-1970     Bill Stickers is Innocent

7th Series 1971

74.     7- 1     29-Jul-1971     Rolling In It
75.     7- 2      5-Aug-1971     Lost In Space (a.k.a. Up, Up and Away) (missing - 2019)	
76.     7- 3     12-Aug-1971     Thoroughly Modern Ministry
77.     7- 4     19-Aug-1971     We All Make Mistakes
78.     7- 5     26-Aug-1971     The Fool-Proof Fool
79.     7- 6      2-Sep-1971     Rotten To the Corps (intro. missing)
80.     7- 7      9-Sep-1971     Transatlantic Trouble
81.     7- 8     16-Sep-1971     The Finger of Suspicion	
82.     7- 9     23-Sep-1971     Just the Ticket

Special 1971

        S- 2     29-Nov-1971     Gone to Pot  (end missing - 2019)

8th Series 1972

83.     8- 1     11-Jul-1972     The Conference Trick
84.     8- 2     18-Jul-1972     The Night We Crept Into The Crypt
85.     8- 3     25-Jul-1972     How Now Brown Cow?
86.     8- 4      1-Aug-1972     Sorry, Wrong Number (end missing - 2019)
87.     8- 5      8-Aug-1972     The Desk Job (end missing - 2019)
88.     8- 6     15-Aug-1972     Fowl Play
89.     8- 7     22-Aug-1972     Something of Value
90.     8- 8     29-Aug-1972     Taking Leave of their Census

9th Series 1973

91.     9- 1      6-Mar-1973     That's my Pigeon
92.     9- 2     13-Mar-1973     Don't Let them Needle You - featuring Joan Sanderson
93.     9- 3     20-Mar-1973     Find the Lady
94.     9- 4     27-Mar-1973     Bridge Under Troubled Waters
95.     9- 5      3-Apr-1973     A Private Affair - featuring Clive Dunn
96.     9- 6     10-Apr-1973     Food For Thought
97.     9- 7     17-Apr-1973     Getting it Taped
98.     9- 8     24-Apr-1973     Safe and Unsound
99.     9- 9      1-May-1973     The Export Caper
100.    9-10      8-May-1973     Flushed with Success
101.    9-11     15-May-1973     Under the Weather
102.    9-12     22-May-1973     Monkey Business
103.    9-13     29-May-1973     Cheesed Off

10th Series 1974

104.   10- 1     17-Jun-1974     Plane Madness
105.   10- 2     24-Jun-1974     Vipers in the Bosom	
106.   10- 3      1-Jul-1974     Great Guns (end missing - 2019)
107.   10- 4      8-Jul-1974     I Want my Mummy
108.   10- 5     15-Jul-1974     One Man's Meat
109.   10- 6     22-Jul-1974     Ballet Nuisance (end missing - 2019)
110.   10- 7     29-Jul-1974     Sky High
111.   10- 8      5-Aug-1974     A Break for Sir Gregory (missing - 2019)
112.   10- 9     12-Aug-1974     Health and Deficiency	
113.   10-10     19-Aug-1974     Big Deal
114.   10-11     26-Aug-1974     They Fry by Night
115.   10-12      2-Sep-1974     In the Picture
116.   10-13      9-Sep-1974     She'll Have to go

11th Series 1975

117.   11- 1     26-May-1975     Nothing but the Vest
118.   11- 2      2-Jun-1975     That's My Baby	
119.   11- 3      9-Jun-1975     All that Glitters
120.   11- 4     16-Jun-1975     Torn to Shreds
121.   11- 5     23-Jun-1975     Wool Over Their Eyes	
122.   11- 6     30-Jun-1975     This, VAT and the Other
123.   11- 7      7-Jul-1975     The Great Trouser Troubles
124.   11- 8     14-Jul-1975     The Cabinet Crisis
125.   11- 9     21-Jul-1975     Chain Reaction
126.   11-10     28-Jul-1975     All Change
127.   11-11      4-Aug-1975     A Merry Dance
128.   11-12     11-Aug-1975     A Sense of Power
129.   11-13     18-Aug-1975     Postal Disorder

12th Series 1976

130.   12- 1      6-Jul-1976     All Cisterns Go
131.   12- 2     13-Jul-1976     A Problem Shared	
132.   12- 3     20-Jul-1976     The Whitehall Castaways
133.   12- 4     27-Jul-1976     Off the Rails
134.   12- 5      3-Aug-1976     Penny Wise
135.   12- 6     10-Aug-1976     A Turn For the Nurse	
136.   12- 7     17-Aug-1976     Seal of Office
137.   12- 8     24-Aug-1976     Birmingham is Revolting

13th Series 1977

138.   13- 1      4-Jul-1977     Mission Inedible
139.   13- 2     11-Jul-1977     Horse Play
140.   13- 3     18-Jul-1977     The Big Big Big Ben Bungle
141.   13- 4     25-Jul-1977     A Motley Crew
142.   13- 5      1-Aug-1977     Not on Your Telly
143.   13- 6      8-Aug-1977     One Way Only
144.   13- 7     15-Aug-1977     Take Your Pick
145.   13- 8     22-Aug-1977     Claws

14th Series 1980 - BBC Transcription Services Recordings

                 Transcription 
 Episode #      Recording Date   Episode Title           Re-recording of an earlier episode
146.   14- 1     13-Apr-1980     Boots                   The Great Footwear Scandal
147.   14- 2     13-Apr-1980     Pardon My French        French Cricket
148.   14- 3     15-Apr-1980     Traffic Diversions      The End of the Road
149.   14- 4     20-Apr-1980     Watch This Space        The Big Rocket
150.   14- 5     20-Apr-1980     Birds of a Feather      Strictly for the Birds
151.   14- 6     22-Apr-1980     Where There's a Will    Problem in the Park
152.   14- 7     22-Apr-1980     The Country Caper       The Rhubarb Pirates
153.   14- 8     27-Apr-1980     Ban The Wotsit          A Terrifying Weapon
154.   14- 9     27-Apr-1980     A Testing Time          A Degrading Business
155.   14-10     29-Apr-1980     Pushing the Vote Out    Up The Poll
156.   14-11     29-Apr-1980     Gone To Earth           The Hole
157.   14-12      6-May-1980     Computaclanger          The Trouble With Cecil
158.   14-13      6-May-1980     A Great Convenience     A Slight Case Of Demolition
159.   14-14     15-Apr-1980     The Christmas Spirit    The Magic Carpet

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