Based on Charles Gordon's comedic novel The Governor General's Bunny Hop,[2] the show was essentially an attempt to create a Canadian version of the British sitcom Yes Minister.
[4] The series starred Harry Ditson as Gerald Angstrum and Shelley Peterson as Margaret Simmons, civil servants in Ottawa working for the Department of Regional Incentive Targets, a government ministry whose sole job was to inherit files that other government ministries did not want to deal with.
[1] Robbie O'Neill appeared as Robert, a junior assistant whose distinguishing trait was that he had learned French from watching Bleu Nuit, resulting in him saying things like "You must be hot in all those clothes" in bilingual meetings;[5] Alpha Boucher appeared as Henri, the blunt-talking operator of the chip stand outside the department office.
[6] The cast also included Barry Stevens, Pierre Chagnon, Chris Wiggins, Robert Benson, Bonnie Brooks, James Edmond and Suzanne Coy.
)[7] The series premiered on October 2, 1987 on CBC Television's owned-and-operated stations,[8] although some private affiliates aired it in an alternate time slot or failed to carry it at all.