These six dramatisations star Richard Griffiths as Mr Mulliner, with a multitude of performances by Matilda Ziegler, David Timson, Martin Hyder, Peter Acre, Tom George and Carl Prekopp. Mr Mulliner’s arrival at the bar of the Angler’s Rest public house invariably sets off a sly story - of a potion which turns a mild curate into a tiger of a man, of a cottage haunted by the syrupy spirit of a romantic novelist, or of a suitor rejected in love who becomes an idol of the silent screen