A post 'Brush Strokes' vehicle for Karl Howman teaming him up in an unlikely partnership with much respected actress Geraldine McEwan in a admirably original and charming show that sadly was not continued past a second series.
The setup is that prematurely aged and bitter spinster Miss Farnaby is bought to life again by mysterious but chirpy Mulberry who turns up out of nowhere to take the role as a sort of butler/home help. All is not as it seems however as is shown by Mulberry being shadowed by a dark and sinister stranger who keeps urges Mulberry to 'get the job done' which would appear to be the killing off of Miss Farnaby.
As the first series moves on more is revealed about what Mulberry is and what the job is the stranger wants him to get on with.
The style is more quality and thoughtful fantasy comedy drama than traditional sitcom in execution, though the 'below stairs' bickering of Bert and Alice is more in that genre, however that serves to keep things 'light' with the darker tones of the core plot.
Mulberry is not one of the best remembered sitcoms of the 1990s, not repeated endlessly on BBC or Gold but nearly two decades after the end of the second series, I do secretly wish they'd assemble the cast together again (if that is possible) and let us see whether Mulberry completes his 'task' and how he does it.
The setup is that prematurely aged and bitter spinster Miss Farnaby is bought to life again by mysterious but chirpy Mulberry who turns up out of nowhere to take the role as a sort of butler/home help. All is not as it seems however as is shown by Mulberry being shadowed by a dark and sinister stranger who keeps urges Mulberry to 'get the job done' which would appear to be the killing off of Miss Farnaby.
As the first series moves on more is revealed about what Mulberry is and what the job is the stranger wants him to get on with.
The style is more quality and thoughtful fantasy comedy drama than traditional sitcom in execution, though the 'below stairs' bickering of Bert and Alice is more in that genre, however that serves to keep things 'light' with the darker tones of the core plot.
Mulberry is not one of the best remembered sitcoms of the 1990s, not repeated endlessly on BBC or Gold but nearly two decades after the end of the second series, I do secretly wish they'd assemble the cast together again (if that is possible) and let us see whether Mulberry completes his 'task' and how he does it.