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[Joking Apart]
Cast:
  • Mark:Robert Bathurst
  • Becky:Fiona Gillies
  • Tracy:Tracie Bennett
  • Robert:Paul Raffield
  • Trevor:Paul-Mark Elliott
Credits:
  • Writer:Steven Moffat
  • Producer:Andre Ptaszynski
  • Director:Bob Spiers
  • Production:Pola Jones For BBC Television

This bittersweet comedy from celebrated writer Steven Moffat documented the relationships between comedy writer/Saab Driver Mark and his wife Becky. He brought his work home and she had her lover Trevor and friends Robert and Tracy - "My Wife Left Me".

A pilot (Directed by John Kirby) appeared in 1991 and was subsequently split over a numerous episodes in Season 1 during 1993 with Season 2 during 1995. In all 13 episodes at 30m.

It is classic farce with a small regular cast in a simple situation made complicated by the characters turning up at different times and not dealing rationally with the events.

[Regular cast]

Mark

Becky

Tracy

Robert

Trevor


Season 1 - Jan/Feb 1993

1Mark tries to finish a sketch about a couple breaking up interspersed with him meeting Becky and her leaving himVicar:James Greene
Lady At Funeral:Rhoda Lewis
Taxi Driver:Frank Lee		Funeral
Surprise Party
2Mark suffer in the aftermath marriage breakup interspersed with his first date with BeckyWaiter:Mark LockyerPants
Restaurant
Handcuffs
3Mark turns up on the wrong date for a diner party at Robert And Tracy's house Dinner
4Mark rows with Becky and sleeps with another woman the proof of which ends up on Becky's answerphoneDave:Geoffrey McGivern
Tom:Robert Llewlyn
Monica:Charlotte Avery		Telephonic Equipment
Tracy And Robert's Sex Life
5Returning a mobile phone Mark gets it on with TracyMan In Van:Karl JenkinsonPhone Location
6Mark brings home a drunken woman from a partyWoman:Elizabeth EdmondsWomen In Rooms

Season 2 - Jan/Feb 1995

7Mark finds Becky's new addressMother:Shirley Cassedy
Boy:Oliver Stone
Man From Shop:Maxwell Hutcheon		Naughty Magazines
Home Videos
Caught In Room
8Mark supervises a dead body and tries not to kill a visiting TrevorClement:John Fortune
Dr Strickland:Paul Brooke
Michael:Tony Gardner		Dead Bodies
9Mark meets Becky and a shifty Robert whose absence is noticedProstitute:Diane Langton
Alan:Martin Ellis
Waitress:Katy Carmichael
Robert's Father:Anthony Collin
Robert's Mother:Jo Powell		Stiffy
Robert On Phone
Prostitute
10Mark has a new nervous nextdoor neighbour and Aunt Helen visits to see him and BeckyAunt Helen:Barbara Keoch
Alison:Nina Young
Andy:Michael Cuckson
Alan:Martin Ellis
Alison's Mother:Amanda Walker
Alison's Father:John Rolfe
Preston:Patrick Duggan
Dick:Kerry Shale		Nude Nextdoor
This Is Becky
11Whilst recovering Mark's best friend advises him first on Becky then on TracyDick:Kerry Shale
policeman:Michael Bertenshaw		Left messages
Tracy reunion
12A TV phone in provides the stage for the story's climaxMichael:Tony Gardner
Sally:Helen Atkinson Wood
Rick:Michael Thomas
Janice:Rachel Fielding
Weather Man:Jonathan Barlow		Becky's Beau
Maxine Desk

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