Back in the days when the only Doctor Who script on his CV was The Curse of Fatal Death, Steven Moffat’s finest hour – along with Press Gang, Chalk, Joking Apart, etc – was the comedy series Coupling.

Through four great series at the dawn of the 2000s, Steve, Susan, Patrick, Jane, Sally and Jeff (except in the final series) struggled through an endless horror of dating disasters, emotional embarrassments and horrific sexual mishaps to eventually find some kind of happiness.

The climax of the third series saw Patrick finally confess his love for Sally – with the assistance of two costumed chums…