List of Joking Apart episodes

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This is a list of episodes of the BBC Two sitcom Joking Apart. All episodes were written by Steven Moffat. None of the episodes have titles.

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[edit] Pilot: 1991

The pilot was transmitted as part of Comic Asides, a series of pilots. It was filmed at Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, with exterior scenes nearby. The pilot is almost identical in plot, script and structure to episode one of the proper series. John Kilby directed the pilot. However, some of the footage would be reused episode one.[1]

Episode # Original airdate Studio recording Summary
Pilot 12 July 1991 9 August 1990 Becky announces to Mark that she wants a divorce.

[edit] Series 1: 1993

Episode # Original airdate Studio recording Summary
1 7 January 1993 7 April 1992 See pilot.
2 14 January 1993 26 April 1992 Robert and Tracy sit with Mark after Becky's departure. He reminisces about their first date, and how he met his friends.
3 21 January 1993 9 May 1992 Mark arrives at Robert and Tracy's for dinner on the wrong night. Shortly afterwards, Becky and new-lover Trevor (Paul-Mark Elliott) arrive for the dinner, in which avocado is a starter.
4 28 January 1993 3 May 1992 Mark recalls the time he proposed to Becky.
5 5 February 1993 16 May 1992 When Mark returns Robert's mobile telephone, he ends up in bed with Tracy.
6 11 February 1993 24 May 1992 Mark takes a drunken woman back to his flat.

[edit] Series 2: 1995

Episode # Original airdate Studio recording Summary
1 3 January 1995 11 November 1993 Marks and Becky bump into each other again in a newsagents as he is browsing the top shelf. When Robert and Tracy accidentally give away her new address, Mark finds himself trapped under his ex-wife's bed.
2 10 January 1995 20 November 1993 Concerned that Becky is now cheating on him, Trevor visits Mark. Mark's psychiatrist (John Fortune), Robert and Tracy become convinced that Mark has enacted his fantasies of killing Trevor.
3 17 January 1995 3 December 1993 Robert is caught visiting a prostitute (Diane Langton).
4 24 January 1995 27 November 1993 Mark's Aunt Helen (Barbara Keogh) arrives from Australia, unaware of his separation. He also acquaints himself with his new neighbour (Nina Young).
5 31 January 1995 10 December 1993 Mark comes round after suffering concussion to find that he is able to have a conversation with a part of his anatomy (Kerry Shale).
6 7 February 1995 3 November 1993 Tracy phones a morning television phone-in show (hosted by Michael Thomas and Helen Atkinson-Wood, with appearances by Rachael Fielding and Johnathon Barlow), unaware that the expert (Tony Gardner) is in her bathroom.

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