Joking Apart
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
United Kingdom · 1993-1995
2 seasons · Completed
30m
Creator Steven Moffat
Starring Robert Bathurst, Fiona Gillies, Tracie Bennett, Paul Raffield
Genre Comedy
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
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. Scheduling problems meant that the show attracted low viewing figures. However, it scored highly on the Appreciation Index and accrued a loyal fanbase. One fan acquired the home video rights from the BBC and released both series on his own DVD label.
We hate to say it, but we can't find anywhere to view this film.
What are people saying?
Users who liked this film also liked
Drifting Clouds
(Kauas pilvet karkaavat)
Tram driver Lauri and his wife Ilona both lose their jobs, and are too proud to receive money from the welfare system.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Finland, Germany, France • 1996
- Director Aki Kaurismäki
- Cast Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo, Sakari Kuosmanen, Markku Peltola, Matti Onnismaa
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
(¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain • 1984
- Director Pedro Almodóvar
- Cast Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma, Ángel de Andrés López, Gonzalo Suárez, Verónica Forqué
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Hardware
You can't stop progress.
- ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 1990
- Director Richard Stanley
- Cast Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Carl McCoy, Iggy Pop
- Genre Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Cosy Dens
(Pelíšky)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czech Republic • 1999
- Director Jan Hřebejk
- Cast Michael Beran, Kristýna Badinková Nováková, Miroslav Donutil, Simona Stašová, Jiří Kodet, Emília Vášáryová
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV
Dark Blue World
(Tmavomodrý svět)
The stress of World War II and their mutual love for an English woman test the friendship of two pilots.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany • 2001
- Director Jan Svěrák
- Cast Ondřej Vetchý, Kryštof Hádek, Tara Fitzgerald, Oldřich Kaiser, Linda Rybová, David Novotný
- Genre Action, Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Rhapsody in August
(八月の狂詩曲)
Tears. Laughter. Innocence. It was a summer of remembering.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1991
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tomoko Ôtakara, Mieko Suzuki, Mitsunori Isaki, Hisashi Igawa
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
My Sweet Little Village
(Vesničko má středisková)
When a corrupt politician attempts to take advantage of mentally disabled Otik, his entire village rallies together to stop him.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1985
- Director Jiří Menzel
- Cast János Bán, Marián Labuda, Rudolf Hrušínský, Petr Čepek, Libuše Šafránková, Jan Hartl
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Apple TV, Amazon Video
Mediterraneo
On a magical Greek island a soldier is about to discover that it is better to make love instead of war
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1991
- Director Gabriele Salvatores
- Cast Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Gigio Alberti, Ugo Conti
- Genre Comedy, Romance, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Topsy-Turvy
After their production, “Princess Ida,” meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 1999
- Director Mike Leigh
- Cast Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Dexter Fletcher, Shirley Henderson, Lesley Manville
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Music
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
A Woman's Tale
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia • 1991
- Director Paul Cox
- Cast Sheila Florance, Gosia Dobrowolska, Norman Kaye, Chris Haywood
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1980
- Director Petr Schulhoff
- Cast Jiří Sovák, Stella Zázvorková, František Peterka, Iva Janžurová, Luděk Sobota, František Filipovský
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Fair Play
In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany • 2014
- Director Andrea Sedláčková
- Cast Judit Bárdos, Anna Geislerová, Roman Luknár, Eva Josefíková, Michaela Pavlátová
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
I'm Your Man
(Ich bin dein Mensch)
To secure funding for her work, an archeologist signs up to test a robot designed to be her perfect partner.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2021
- Director Maria Schrader
- Cast Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Annika Meier
- Genre Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
- Available on Hulu, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Kanopy