Yes Minister (1980)

The definitive text on the supremacy of civil servants over elected officials, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's classic turns administrative procedure into high art. Sir Humphrey Appleby demonstrates that the best way to delay unwelcome action is to establish an interdepartmental committee or bury the proposal under impenetrable bureaucratic syntax. It remains the most chillingly accurate examination of departmental inertia ever committed to videotape.