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==Merchandise==
===Home video releases===
The BBC issued some episodes of ''Yes Minister'', and all of ''Yes, Prime Minister'' on VHS.<ref name="DVD">{{cite web| work= The Yes (Prime) Minister Files | title= video/DVD |url= http://www.yes-minister.com/video.htm| access-date=31 August 2006}}</ref> They were re-released and repackaged at various points. The complete collection was released by the BBC through [[Warner Home Video]] on Region 1 DVD in October 2003. Warner appears to have added [[DVD region code|RCE]] region coding to the individual release of the second series of ''Yes Minister'', but there are no similar reported problems on playing the complete collection.<ref name="DVD"/> The BBC, through 2 Entertain Video, also issued several Region 2 DVDs:
* ''Yes Minister: Series One'' (BBCDVD1047), released 1 October 2001
* ''Yes Minister: Series Two'' (BBCDVD1120), released 30 September 2002
* ''Yes Minister: Series Three & "Party Games"'' (BBCDVD1188), released 29 September 2003
* ''The Complete Yes Minister'' (BBCDVD1462), released 15 November 2004
* ''Yes, Prime Minister: Series One'' (BBCDVD1365), released 4 October 2004
* ''Yes, Prime Minister: Series Two'' (BBCDVD1729), released 9 May 2005
* ''The Complete Yes Minister & Yes, Prime Minister'', released 16 October 2006
* ''Yes Minister & Yes, Prime Minister - The Complete Collection'' (BBCDVD4448), released 12 October 2020

The 2013 relaunched series on Gold was released on 25 February 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yes-Prime-Minister-1-DVD/dp/B00B0F4WDK/ref=sr_1_136?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1358512498&sr=1-136|title=Yes Prime Minister [DVD]|work=amazon.co.uk|date=25 February 2013 }}</ref>
* ''Yes, Prime Minister: Series One''

Netflix previously streamed both series to subscribers. All four series are also available for download purchase from iTunes and similar programs. Episodes have been made available on [[BBC iPlayer]] in the U.K. and  [[Britbox]] in the United States.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006xtc3/yes-minister |title=Yes Minister |language=en-GB |access-date=2025-05-17 |via=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00m01hr/yes-prime-minister |title=Yes, Prime Minister |language=en-GB |access-date=2025-05-17 |via=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-03 |title=Yes, Minister S1 - Comedy {{!}} BritBox |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903175412/https://www.britbox.com/us/show/b006xtc3 |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dated or Delightful? ‘Yes Minister’ {{!}} Telly Visions |url=https://tellyvisions.org/article/dated-or-delightful-yes-minister |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=tellyvisions.org |language=en}}</ref>

===Australian/New Zealand releases===
The Region 4 (Australian/New Zealand) releases took place from 2002 to 2007: 
* ''Yes Minister: Series One'', released 2 April 2002
* ''Yes Minister: Series Two'', released 11 February 2002
* ''Yes Minister: Series Three & "Party Games"'', released 5 May 2003
* ''The Complete Yes Minister'', released 10 July 2004
* ''Yes Prime Minister: Series One'', released 12 February 2004
* ''Yes Prime Minister: Series Two'', released 7 July 2005
* ''Yes Prime Minister: Series One and Two (Box Set)'', released 11 March 2005
* ''The Complete Yes Minister & Yes, Prime Minister'', released 3 October 2007
* Roadshow Entertainment Australia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadshowentertainment.com.au |title=New DVD titles for rent and retail from Roadshow Entertainment |publisher=Roadshow Entertainment. |access-date=4 February 2009}}</ref> / New Zealand<ref>{{cite web|url=http://roadshow.co.nz|title=Homepage – Roadshow Entertainment|work=roadshow.co.nz}}</ref> – Search DVD Index

===Books===
The series spawned several books. The scripts were edited and transformed into prose, and published by BBC Books in the form of diaries. Scenes that did not involve Hacker took the form of private memos between civil servants, or 'interviews' and written correspondence from other characters. In some instances, the novelizations added extra details, while padding-out some existing details. For example, in the novelization for 'The Official Visit', Sir Humphrey manages to confuse Hacker, by reeling-off a plethora of acronyms—without explaining them, leaving Hacker with nonsense to fathom.

The three series of ''Yes Minister'' were published as paperbacks in 1981, 1982 and 1983 respectively before being combined into a revised hardback omnibus edition, ''The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister'', in 1984. Two volumes of ''Yes, Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker'' were published in 1986 and 1987, before being made available as an omnibus edition in 1988. Both series were published as omnibus paperback editions in 1989:
* ''The Complete Yes Minister'' {{ISBN|978-0-563-20665-1}}
* ''The Complete Yes, Prime Minister'' {{ISBN|0-563-20773-6}}

Sir Antony Jay's ''How to Beat Sir Humphrey: Every Citizen's Guide to Fighting Officialdom'' ({{ISBN|0-9528285-1-0}}) was published in April 1997. It was illustrated by Gerald Scarfe and Shaun Williams. It was read by Derek Fowlds on Radio 4 later that year.

''The "Yes Minister" Miscellany'' was released in October 2009.

The script of the play, ''Yes, Prime Minister'', was published in paperback by [[Faber & Faber]] in 2010 ({{ISBN|978-0-571-26070-6}}).

Graham McCann's 'A Very Courageous Decision: The Inside Story of Yes Minister,' was published by Aurum Books in October 2014 ({{ISBN|978-1781311899}}).

===Video game===
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A ''Yes, Prime Minister'' video game was released in 1987 for [[Amstrad CPC]], [[BBC Micro]], [[Commodore 64]], [[MS-DOS]], and [[ZX Spectrum]]. The player takes on the role of Prime Minister Jim Hacker for one week as he navigates through meetings with Sir Humphrey, Bernard Woolley, and other government officials, making decisions about seemingly minor government policies which regardless have an effect on the PM's approval rating by the end of the week.<ref>{{cite web |author=Scott, Steve |work=lemon64.com |title=Yes, Prime Minister |year=1987 |url=http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D556 |access-date=30 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930183451/http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemon64.com%2Freviews%2Fview.php%3Fid%3D556 |archive-date=30 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>