Items11The creator’s order
  1. 1Press Gang (1989)Press Gang (1989) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 16, 1989Moffat wrote all 43 episodes of this children's comedy-drama about students running a junior newspaper, which makes it the clearest place to see where his habits began: rapid-fire bickering, a romance built on things left unsaid, and episodes that play games with dream sequences and flashbacks.…0
  2. 2Joking Apart (1993)Joking Apart (1993) 8.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 7, 1993A romantic comedy that runs backwards. Moffat drew on his own separation, and the early episodes cut between Mark and Becky falling in love and the end of their marriage, so the jokes keep landing on what you already know is coming. Moffat himself called it a romantic comedy backwards because it…0
  3. 3Chalk (1997)Chalk (1997) 6.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired Feb 20, 1997The honest outlier. Moffat's school sitcom sets its teachers' lounge disasters at Galfast High, a fictional comprehensive school, with David Bamber's deputy head Eric Slatt at the center and Nicola Walker as English teacher Suzy Travis. Critics were unkind during its 1997 BBC One run and…0
  4. 4Coupling (2000)Coupling (2000) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired May 12, 2000The one to start with after Sherlock if you want Moffat's comedy at full power. Six friends dissect dating in London, and Moffat, inspired by his relationship with producer Sue Vertue, wrote all 28 episodes. What lifts it above a standard roommate sitcom is the structure. Split runs two breakup…0
  5. 5Jekyll (2007)Jekyll (2007) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jun 16, 2007The bridge between the sitcom years and Sherlock, and the first sketch of the Moffat thriller. Rather than adapt Stevenson, the six episodes act as a sequel to the novella: James Nesbitt plays Tom Jackman, a modern descendant of Jekyll learning to share his body with a Hyde of his own, while a…0
  6. 6Sherlock (2010)Sherlock (2010) 9.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jul 25, 2010Co-created with Mark Gatiss, this is the obvious gateway: Benedict Cumberbatch's Holmes and Martin Freeman's Watson in present-day London, with text messages and clues shown on screen rather than cut away to a phone. Each of the 13 feature-length episodes is a puzzle box in the purest sense, and…0
  7. 7Doctor Who (2005)Doctor Who (2005) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Mar 26, 2005Showrunner years: 2010 to 2017, with Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi Where Russell T Davies built the revival around big emotions, Moffat ran it as a fairy tale with a timer: arcs seeded episodes in advance, paradoxes and payoffs that only made full sense at a series finale. Matt Smith's Eleventh…0
  8. 8Dracula (2020)Dracula (2020) 6.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 1, 2020Moffat and Gatiss again, this time with three feature-length episodes shown on BBC One over three consecutive nights from New Year's Day 2020. Claes Bang plays the Count with obvious relish, and Dolly Wells's skeptical nun, Sister Agatha Van Helsing, turns their scenes into a duel of wits. The…0
  9. 9The Time Traveler's Wife (2022)The Time Traveler's Wife (2022) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired May 15, 2022On paper, perfect Moffat material: Audrey Niffenegger's novel, which he had already borrowed from for Doctor Who, adapted for HBO with Rose Leslie and Theo James as Clare and Henry, a couple whose marriage keeps colliding with his involuntary time travel. The paradox bookkeeping is meticulous. In…0
  10. 10Inside Man (2022)Inside Man (2022) 6.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 26, 2022Four tight hours, first shown on BBC One in September 2022, built from three strands: a prisoner on death row in the US, a vicar in a quiet English town and a math teacher trapped in a cellar. Watching them converge is the puzzle, and the series runs on the idea that anyone could become a murderer…0