Joking Apart (1993)

A 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 ends with the couple unhappy. Some episodes turn into full ensemble farces around their friends Robert and Tracy, intricate machines that point straight to Coupling. Only twelve episodes went out on BBC Two between 1993 and 1995, poorly scheduled and little watched, yet it won the Bronze Rose of Montreux. The most underseen series here, and worth tracking down.