Bill Young

PBS Mystery series from 1980.

Sir Nigel Hawthorne, Margaret Thatcher and Paul Eddington. Photo: BBC The original Yes, Minister was widely known to be Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s favorite television series. So much so that on January 20, 1984 Thatcher was to present an award to Yes Minister writers Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn from British teacher and conservative activist Mary Whitehouse’s National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association.

Larry the Cat at #10. Editorial credit: Drop of Light / Shutterstock.com Serving as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom at 10 Downing Street, the residence and home office of Britain’s prime minister, Larry the Cat was appointed in 2011 and finds himself in his 16th year in residence in 2026, serving his seventh PM in the last decade, (three of them in the span of 45 days!).