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Mulberry Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1992 - 1992
Episode 1
Arrival
30 mins
Yet another domestic has walked out on cantankerous and imperious old Miss Farnaby due to her demanding,cold nature but before cook Alice and gardener Bert can advertise for a replacement,Mulberry,a jaunty young man, appears out of nowhere. He has no qualifications but,due to a mutual interest in 'Spot the Ball' competitions and the absence of any other candidate,he gets the job. He even softens Miss Farnaby up,getting her to confess to her jealousy of her sisters and persuading her to give her nephew a rocking-horse that is a family heirloom. Afterwards he meets a mysterious saturnine man in the garden.
Episode 2
Fireworks
30 mins
As Fireworks Night approaches Mulberry learns that Alice and Bert dread the private bonfire celebration upon which Miss Farnaby insists every year. When he brings this to her attention he learns that she too hates it but is merely maintaining an old family tradition from happier days when her parents were alive. Everybody is relieved when Miss Farnaby cancels the event and they all head off to enjoy the village celebration. However when Mulberry returns to the house the swarthy man rebukes him for not doing what he was supposed to.
Episode 3
The Quiz
30 mins
Noticing that Miss Farnaby regularly enters newspaper competitions Mulberry suggests that she join him with Bert and Alice in entering the annual village charity quiz. Initially undecided Miss Farnaby agrees to enter when her go-getting sister Adele arrives and,after criticizing her for being old-fashioned,enters her family as a rival team. The quiz ends in a tie-break,which Adele's team wins,leaving Miss Farnaby feeling more envious than before - though Mulberry offers to show her how to beat Adele at snooker. The stranger,meanwhile,is not satisfied with Mulberry's progress at the house.
Episode 4
The Holiday
30 mins
Miss Farnaby's bad moods are annoying all three staff so when she wins a weekend in Bournemouth Mulberry reckons it will cheer her up. She begs to differ so they plan to go to Paris instead,giving Alice and Bert the prize. As they stop for petrol the dark man approaches Mulberry and it seems that he wants him to kill the old lady - for which reason Mulberry talks her out of the Paris trip. Instead they visit the site where a man once proposed to her by a stream. The stranger appears behind Mulberry and motions him to push Miss Farnaby in but Mulberry refuses.
Episode 5
The Dinner Party
30 mins
To counter her image as an eccentric recluse Miss Farnaby agrees to Mulberry's suggestion that she should throw a dinner party. Alice and Bert are not impressed for it will mean extra work and expose the money-making schemes they have going on behind their employer's back. They set out to humiliate Mulberry by making him wear a suit that is too small but the party ends dramatically when one of the guests dies of a heart attack. Outside the dark stranger reveals that he is not only Mulberry's father but the Grim Reaper and Mulberry's purpose is to prepare Miss Farnaby for the big sleep.
Episode 6
Leaving
30 mins
Having grown fond of Miss Farnaby Mulberry is reluctant to help his father to kill her and instead goes out of his way to make sure that she is safe before leaving the area. He meets up with Death,who tells him that his optimistic nature is down to his mother being Springtime and agrees to giving Miss Farnaby a three month stay of execution so that Mulberry can help her to enjoy life. Mulberry returns to the house and persuades Miss Farnaby to sing 'Daisy Bell' while riding a tandem with him.
