Basic Info

First Air: January 07, 1993

Rating: ⭐ 6.7/10 (3 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 12

Last Episode

Name: Episode 12

Season: 2, Episode: 6

Air Date: 1995-02-07

Runtime: 30 min

Tracy takes part in a television phone-in show about divorce....Just not how she imagined. Inevitably, Becky and Mark are soon centre-stage in the discussion. As more and more revelations come out, some relationships will never be the same again....

Joking Apart

1993 2 seasons 12 episodes ⭐ 6.7/10 3 votes

Overview

Joking Apart is a BBC television sitcom written by Steven Moffat about the rise and fall of a relationship. It juxtaposes a couple, Mark and Becky, who fall in love and marry, before getting separated and finally divorced. The twelve episodes, broadcast between 1993 and 1995, were directed by Bob Spiers and produced by Andre Ptaszynski for independent production company Pola Jones. The show is semi-autobiographical; it was inspired by the then recent separation of Moffat and his first wife. Some of the episodes in the first series followed a non-linear parallel structure, contrasting the rise of the relationship with the fall. Other episodes were ensemble farces, predominantly including the couple's friends Robert and Tracy. Paul Mark Elliott also appeared as Trevor, Becky's lover.