List of Mr. Bean: The Animated Series episodes
This is a list of episodes of Mr. Bean: The Animated Series, a British animated comedy television series produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for ITV and CITV. It premiered on 5 January 2002.
In January 2014, CITV announced a revival of the series with Rowan Atkinson returning to the role as Mr. Bean as well as other cast members reprising their roles. 52 new episodes were broadcast from 16 February 2015 to 10 March 2016.[1]
On 6 February 2018 CITV announced a fifth series of the show, which will feature a total of 26 episodes. Series 5 premiered on 9 April 2019 on CITV as well as on Turner channels worldwide.[2]
Series overview
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
1 | 18 | 5 January 2002 | 26 March 2002 | ||
2 | 16 | 16 February 2003 | 5 April 2003 | ||
3 | 18 | 6 May 2004 | 2 June 2004 | ||
4 | 52 | 16 February 2015 | 10 March 2016 | ||
Special | 1 | 30 October 2018 | |||
5 | 26 | 9 April 2019 | 8 October 2019 |
Episode list
Series 1 (2002)
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "In the Wild" | Richard Purdum | Robin Driscoll | Richard Purdum | 5 January 2002 | |
Upon watching a wildlife photographer taking pictures of the wilderness on TV, Mr. Bean decides to become a wildlife photographer himself, but his attempts to photograph the animals mostly fail. In order for the animals to not avoid him, he disguises as a fox but a group of dogs mistakes Bean as a real fox and chases him to his flat. | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Missing Teddy" | Miklós Varga | Robin Driscoll | Katalin Bross | 5 January 2002 | |
Teddy gets stolen by a duo of burglars who manage to steal every teddy bear around London. To save him, Mr. Bean tracks down and thwarts the burglars, retrieves Teddy and returns the rest of the teddy bears to their owners. | |||||||
3 | 3 | "No Parking" | Katalin Móré | Jon Canter | Dean Roberts | 5 January 2002 | |
Mr. Bean wants to watch the film Titanic but has serious trouble finding a parking space. At the end, Bean finally parks his Mini, but upon arriving at the cinema, the film is already coming to an end, disgruntling him. Note: In this episode, the Reliant Supervan had the registration number "A 631 LDE" when it usually has the registration number "DUW 742". | |||||||
4 | 4 | "Bean's Bounty" | Katalin Móré | Robin Driscoll | Trevor Ricketts | 5 January 2002 | |
Whilst digging for treasure, Mr. Bean builds his own metal detector and goes to hunt for treasure, but fails. When he finally manages to find treasure and brings it to his flat, the burglar duo follow him and tie him up but Mrs. Wicket confronts them and the police arrive, arresting the duo once again. However, Mrs. Wicket and Scrapper also get arrested as Mrs. Wicket's mud mask looks like a thief's mask. Note: This is the first appearance of Mrs. Wicket and her cat Scrapper. | |||||||
5 | 5 | "Mime Games" | Miklós Varga | Robin Driscoll | Dean Roberts | 12 January 2002 | |
Because he fails to pay a street mime in the park, the mime follows Mr. Bean when he isn't looking and breaks Mrs. Wicket's water statue. Eventually, Bean out-mimes him, kidnaps the man disguising as a silver statue and uses him to replace the broken water statue. | |||||||
6 | 6 | "Spring Clean" | Miklós Varga | Andrew Clifford | Trevor Ricketts | 12 January 2002 | |
It is spring cleaning time and Mr. Bean's flat is a total mess, so he cleans up everything. After this, he takes a bath, but after he gets out of the tub, he accidentally slips on the soap and slams into the vacuum, causing it to explode and make his flat become dirty again. He tries to bathe again, but since there is no more hot water, he tries stealing some from a neighbour but some green shampoo causes him to become green. Finally, Bean attempts to take a bath in Mrs. Wicket's bath tub while she is in town, but puts too much washing powder in the machine, causing it to explode and fill the entire building with water bubbles. | |||||||
7 | 7 | "Birthday Bear" | Mihály Sikur | Stephen Powell | Chris Butler | 19 January 2002 | |
On Teddy's birthday, Mr. Bean decides to invite his girlfriend Irma Gobb to Teddy's birthday party at night. However, Irma becomes unhappy and uncomfortable at the party due to Bean's unfair play. When it is 9:00, Bean shows Irma a fireworks display and she feels better. | |||||||
8 | 8 | "The Mole" | Miklós Varga | Robin Driscoll | Arna Selznick | 19 January 2002 | |
Mrs. Wicket's croquet game is interrupted by an offending mole. Mr. Bean tries to get rid of it, but to no avail until he finally manages to capture it. Mrs. Wicket then orders Bean to kill it with a croquet hammer, but Bean, having mercy not to kill it, puts it into a jar and releases it into the wild. | |||||||
9 | 9 | "Roadworks" | Andrei Ignatenko | Lee Cornes | Chris Butler | 26 January 2002 | |
Mr. Bean tries to relax, but the roadworks outside are making too much noise and shaking his whole flat. After numerous failed attempts to distract the workers, he finally interrupts them by offering them food but fails to notice steam from a cracked pipe. When Bean lights the candle in his cart of food for the workers even though they warn him not to, the pipe then explodes, causing Bean to end up in the hospital. | |||||||
10 | 10 | "The Sofa" | Miklós Varga | Andrew Clifford | Andrei Kolpin | 26 January 2002 | |
While watching TV with Teddy, Mr. Bean finds the remote inside the sofa, resulting in lots of springs coming out of his sofa; he plans to buy a new sofa, but cannot afford the cost of £300. He then decides to have a garage sale, but for no apparent reason all his stuff is removed by the refuse collector while he rescues Teddy from a spoiled little girl. Eventually, he sells a stamp for £300 to a passerby and finally buys the sofa. Unfortunately, Bean realises that his TV remote is still inside the old sofa and goes back to the antique shop where he abandoned it, but he then realised that it was sold to the driver of the Reliant Supervan. Bean chases the driver to retrieve his remote control but, unknown to Bean, the owner has already retrieved the remote control and sells it for £10. | |||||||
11 | 11 | "Treasure!" | Katalin Móré | Tony Haase | Trevor Ricketts | 3 February 2002 | |
Upon leaving a jigsaw puzzle from Mrs. Wicket's attic unfinished due to a missing puzzle piece, Mr. Bean goes on an elaborate treasure hunt which starts inside Mrs. Wicket's fireplace and ends inside a small shack in the park. Upon arriving at the shack, Bean finds a key, runs home, opens the box containing the last puzzle piece with the key and joyfully completes the puzzle. | |||||||
12 | 12 | "Homeless" | Andrei Ignatenko | Robin Driscoll | Sharon Smith | 3 February 2002 | |
After an attempt to stop Mrs. Wicket from sleepwalking backfires, Mr. Bean is kicked out of his flat, so he hunts for a new home. He looks at some rooms he sees advertised in the newspaper, but no to avail. When Bean sees his room for rent, he decides to disguise himself to get back in. When Mrs. Wicket sleepwalks to his room once again, he carries her back into the room but she wakes up and panics, to which Bean shows himself by pretending to attack the "man" and throw "him" out of the window. Thinking Bean "subdued" the "man", Mrs. Wicket welcomes him back. | |||||||
13 | 13 | "Nurse!" | Evgueni Pavlenko and Elena Rogova | Rebecca Stevens | Trevor Ricketts | 10 February 2002 | |
When Mrs. Wicket is ill, Mr. Bean fakes an injury in the hopes of getting himself a luxurious stay at the hospital like Mrs. Wicket has. Unfortunately, it is not luxurious and the nurse is different from whom Bean envisioned. When the nurse checks Bean with the X-ray, she is shocked when the nurse sees Teddy (whom Bean hides with him after learning that teddy bears are forbidden inside) in the image, thinking that he swallowed the whole of it, leading him to the operation room. Bean attempts to escape using a wheelchair with the nurse chasing him until he accidentally falls into a broken lift, resulting in serious injury. Despite this, he eventually gets this luxurious stay with the same nurse caring for him and a live band as he wished. | |||||||
14 | 14 | "Dead Cat" | Miklós Varga | Gary Parker | Ben Lewis | 10 February 2002 | |
After putting Scrapper into the rubbish bin to keep him out of the way while he decorates, Mr. Bean thinks Scrapper had been crushed to death in the rubbish collection vehicle by the waste collector after emptying the bin. When there are no cats that look like him, Mr. Bean goes to a S.O.S. cat house and sees a cat that looks like Scrapper to which he lets the cats out as a distraction for the owner, steals her cat and makes him look like Scrapper. When Mrs. Wicket discovers the deception, she throws Mr. Bean out and sees Scrapper alive. Bean then decides to return the owner's cat, but gets caught and is ordered to fix the wallpaper decorating at the cat house as a punishment. | |||||||
15 | 15 | "Super Trolley" | Sergey Gordeev and Andrei Ignatenko | Lee Cornes | Sharon Smith | 17 February 2002 | |
Mr. Bean goes to buy a box of cereal but is unexpectedly ordered by Mrs. Wicket to buy various items including cat food for Scrapper. While Bean is shopping, a series of incidents, including him overloading the shopping trolley causing it to accidentally break, leads to the store manager chasing him. He decides to build himself a mechanical trolley to complete his errands only to inadvertently buy dog food instead of cat food, angering Mrs. Wicket. | |||||||
16 | 16 | "Magpie" | Miklós Varga | Tony Haase | David Brown | 17 February 2002 | |
Mr. Bean brings an injured magpie to his flat, to which he realizes that it likes to collect lovely and shiny things taken from neighbours' houses. When Mrs. Wicket and the policeman see this, Bean is wrongly arrested for grand thievery. When the policeman returns from his car after having a parking fine, he sees the magpie holding his keys, realizing that the magpie was responsible for theft. Bean is finally released from custody, but when he returns to his flat, he finds the Queen's crown stolen by the magpie, which shocks him. | |||||||
17 | 17 | "Cat-Sitting" | Andrei Ignatenko and Vladimir Nikitin | Stephen Powell | Sharon Smith | 26 March 2002 | |
When Mrs. Wicket is hospitalized after accidentally breaking her arm, Mr. Bean must look after Scrapper while she is away. Unfortunately, this is difficult since they hate each other. When everything becomes a mess, Bean gets assaulted by Mrs. Wicket when she returns from the hospital and as a result, he is also sent to the hospital, where on the way there via ambulance, Scrapper has stowed away. | |||||||
18 | 18 | "The Bottle" | Miklós Varga | Lee Cornes | Chris Butler | 26 March 2002 | |
Mr. Bean's newly purchased ship-in-a-bottle gets incorrectly picked up by the milkman, resulting in Bean sneaking inside the milk factory to retrieve the bottle. Back at his flat, he decides to hang his bottle near his door but it wakes up Mrs. Wicket, to which she slams Bean's door after shushing Bean, causing the bottle to fall on the floor and break. Fortunately, he is satisfied when he reuses the broken ship pieces for his goldfish. |
Series 2 (2003)
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date | |
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19 | 1 | "Goldfish" | Katalin Móré | Andrew Clifford | Chris Drew | 16 February 2003 | |
After Mr. Bean accidentally drops Teddy into a bucket full of extremely smelly sardines, Teddy becomes very stinky, causing Bean to bring him to the laundry shop. That night, Bean sees a goldfish in the pond outside about to be eaten by Scrapper, but manages to rescue the goldfish and takes care of him. The next day, Bean takes him to the beach until he gets dragged when a swordfish eats the goldfish. Upon landing at a fishing boat, Bean sees his goldfish alive but becomes stinky and is forced to go to the laundry shop to wash himself like Teddy. Note: This episode was not released on DVD in Australia. | |||||||
20 | 2 | "Inventor" | Mihály Sikur | Tony Haase | Ben Lewis | 16 February 2003 | |
When an inventor moves in, Mrs. Wicket transfers Mr. Bean upstairs and lets the inventor take over his flat. After a few failed attempts to outsmart the inventor, Bean sees his greatest invention and rigs it in order to make it malfunction while the inventor is downstairs calling Mrs. Wicket. On seeing the destruction caused by the malfunctioning machine, she kicks the inventor out, and Bean moves back to his flat. | |||||||
21 | 3 | "Royal Bean" | Evgueni Pavlenko and Elena Rogova | Rebecca Stevens | Chris Butler | 23 February 2003 | |
After a faulty toaster accidentally breaks Mr. Bean's favorite mug with Queen Elizabeth II's face on it, he drives to town to buy a new one. He then finds a lorry carrying mugs with the Queen's face on it, causing him to chase the lorry to Buckingham Palace. Once there, the Queen's corgi steals Teddy, resulting in Bean giving chase. Eventually, Bean manages to bring the missing dog back to Elizabeth and is rewarded with a new mug, much to his gratitude. | |||||||
22 | 4 | "Young Bean" | Evgueni Pavlenko and Elena Rogova | Tony Haase | Sharon Smith | 23 February 2003 | |
When Mr. Bean steals a slice of Mrs. Wicket's chocolate cake, he is forced to hide inside her attic, where he finds items from his childhood. Feeling guilty for ruining Mrs. Wicket's wedding by riding his go-kart resembling his Mini down the road when he was younger, he decides to return the slice of cake he stole in order to atone for his past actions, but ends up getting caught by her. | |||||||
23 | 5 | "In the Pink" | Katalin Móré | Robin Driscoll | Chris Drew | 1 March 2003 | |
Mr. Bean adopts a strange furry pink animal from the pet shop. Upon finding out that it is a young badger, Bean realizes that it is part of the burglar duo's attempt to sell the babies by painting them pink to earn money. When Bean sees this, he sabotages their plan by releasing the emergency brake of their van and slamming it into a police car, arresting the duo once again. | |||||||
24 | 6 | "Dinner for Two" | Andrei Ignatenko | Jon Canter | Trevor Ricketts | 1 March 2003 | |
Irma is coming for dinner, but Mr. Bean fell asleep in the bathtub and as a result, his turkey is completely burned. He tries to cook spaghetti, but because it cannot fit in the pot, he instead uses his bathtub to cook the spaghetti, but he accidentally lets it go down the drain when he gets distracted by a bird crushed by the window. He decides to make the bird their dinner but because it is too small, he inflates it to look like a turkey. When this fails, Bean and Irma instead attempt to eat a nearby mouse. | |||||||
25 | 7 | "The Ball" | Mihály Sikur | Jon Canter | Ben Lewis | 8 March 2003 | |
During a tennis game played by a father and son, the ball accidentally gets stuck in the drain pipe on the roof of a block of flats. After several failed attempts to remove the ball, Mr. Bean finally retrieves the ball by bouncing on a trampoline. Later, the father tells Bean to bring back the ball when it accidentally goes into a rubbish bin, but Bean mistakenly throws an egg from the bin and the furious father chases him. | |||||||
26 | 8 | "Toothache" | Katalin Móré | Lee Cornes | Chris Drew | 8 March 2003 | |
While eating popcorn and watching TV, one of Mr. Bean's teeth gets broken, causing too much pain for him. After several attempts of pulling out his tooth, Bean eats one popcorn while he watches TV and the tooth finally comes out, but he makes a whistling sound every time he breathes through the gap in his mouth; he then uses a toy triceratops' horn as a tooth. When Bean looks horribly on his teeth on the next day, he decides to go to a dentist to have the tooth removed and repaired. When Bean tries to reattach the misplaced triceratops toy horn, he tries to remove the parts until he accidentally strikes his tooth, causing him pain once again. | |||||||
27 | 9 | "Haircut" | Sergey Gordeev | Jon Canter | Sharon Smith | 15 March 2003 | |
Mr. Bean saves a black kitten from a tree, to which the cat's owner thanks him for saving her kitten and makes a reward for him. When the press photographer and the kitten's owner arrive at his door for a photograph, Bean decides to have a beautiful haircut since his hair is messy but the barber is too slow to cut his hair. He then decides to cut his own hair by himself but inadvertently cuts all his hair, making him bald while the photographer is waiting impatiently for him. He attempts to hide his hair until he sees the photographer's toupee fly away in which he steals it and paints in black. As Mr. Bean and the owner are about to take a picture, the gust of wind blows the toupee away, resulting in Bean putting the kitten on his head. As a result, the barber likes the picture and uses Bean's cat haircut to cut them off for his customers. Note: This episode was not released on DVD in Australia. | |||||||
28 | 10 | "Neighbourly Bean" | Miklós Varga | Stephen Powell | Sharon Smith | 15 March 2003 | |
While watching TV, the Bruisers' noises are distracting Mr. Bean, even when he transfers his television around his flat to flee from the noises. When he arrives at the closet (the only absolutely quiet place), the show has already ended, angering Bean to the point of taking revenge by recording all of their noises and using them at night to keep them awake. | |||||||
29 | 11 | "Car Trouble" | Mihály Sikur | Lee Cornes | David Brown | 22 March 2003 | |
Because his Mini has broken down and will not work anymore, Mr. Bean is forced to sell it to the scrapyard. Unbeknownst to Bean, the scrapyard manager cleans off the oil in the Mini's engine and hijacks it. Bean then purchases a hot-air balloon as a replacement, but when he see his Mini back on the road, he realises that the manager stole it, so he takes it back and he is finally able to drive it again. | |||||||
30 | 12 | "Restaurant" | Sergey Gordeev | Lee Cornes | David Brown | 22 March 2003 | |
Mr. Bean celebrates his birthday at a fancy restaurant with Teddy, unaware that he has to dine together with a celebrity couple. When the waiter gets injured by slipping on the floor, Bean is unwittingly registered to the kitchen and the star actor orders a lobster from the restaurant aquarium. Unfortunately, the lobster has escaped, so he attempts to create a makeshift lobster from carrots which angers the actor into beating up Bean. When he tries to finish Bean off, the lobster attacks and pursues him with the paparazzi chasing him. Afterwards, Bean and the actress exit the restaurant to which the actress kisses him. | |||||||
31 | 13 | "Art Thief" | Katalin Móré | Rebecca Stevens | Trevor Ricketts | 29 March 2003 | |
Mr. Bean drives to an art museum, where he doesn't like naked pictures and statues. When he sees a man trying to steal a flower portrait, he takes a picture of him but it takes time for it to reveal. By the time the photo is revealed, Bean sees that the portrait is already gone and mistakenly thinks the thief has stolen it, resulting in a mile-long pursuit to Paris. Later, it is revealed that the artist was the one who took the portrait to clean it and the thief is arrested. Note: This episode was not released on DVD in Australia. | |||||||
32 | 14 | "Scaredy Bean" | Miklós Varga | Jon Canter | Sharon Smith | 29 March 2003 | |
Mr. Bean drives to the cinema where he partly watches two horror films titled "Kat" and "The Glob", which scare him too much that he instead decides to watch "Mr. Tiny" during which he falls asleep. When he arrives home, he tries to get in but realises he left his jacket with his house key at the cinema. To add insult to injury, Bean sees Scrapper as the giant cat and Mrs. Wicket as the glob monster to which he escapes by driving back to the cinema where he tries to sneak into the film, but gets carried by the cashier who is revealed to be a giant hornet in the Mr. Tiny movie. Mr. Bean and Tiny then work together to survive and succeed in doing so. The duo then climb onto the 'THE END' sign, but Bean accidentally falls down when he climbs on the N, at which point he wakes up from what turned out to be just a nightmare. Note: This episode was not released on DVD in Australia. | |||||||
33 | 15 | "Hot Date" | Sergey Gordeev | Rebecca Stevens | Chris Butler | 5 April 2003 | |
Mr. Bean and Irma go on a date, but they have different notions of what makes a date. After they eat in a restaurant, Bean realizes that he left his wallet at home so he goes to get it but the musician instead uses his own £20 to pay the bill and goes to have a romantic dance with Irma. When Mr. Bean sees Irma and the musician going to the car, he sees the blue Reliant coming out, mistakes it for a car that Irma is in and pursues it. When Irma and the musician are about to kiss they are interrupted when the Reliant Supervan slams into the musician's car. Irma decides to go back to Bean's car and Irma and Bean drive away laughing while the musician beats up the driver of the Reliant Supervan for damaging his car. Note: This episode was not released on DVD in Australia. | |||||||
34 | 16 | "Wanted" | Ildikó Táborita | Stephen Powell | Chris Butler | 5 April 2003 | |
An escaped convict resembling Mr. Bean takes refuge on Bean's flat, causing the police to incorrectly arrest Bean while the convict goes to impersonate Bean. While the real Bean ends up in prison, the convict is forced by Mrs. Wicket (who failed to realize his identity) to do rockery, making the convict fed up on this job. He then regretfully goes back to his prison cell and explains to Bean about the situation. Meanwhile, the prison guard finds out that the burglar duo have broken out of their cell (they escaped earlier with "help" from Bean). At the same time as Bean gets out of prison and celebrates by shouting, the sirens go off which causes Bean to run off thinking the police are coming for him again. |
Series 3 (2004)
Unlike the first two series, series 3 is the first to be broadcast daily on CITV rather than a Saturday night prime-time slot on ITV1 as well as the first to have 18 single episodes rather than back-to-back segments.
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date | |
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35 | 1 | "Gadget Kid" | Miklós Varga | Gary Parker | Ben Lewis | 6 May 2004 | |
At a science museum, Mr. Bean befriends a young Japanese tourist boy with lots of gadgets resulting in the two causing mischief for the museum guard. | |||||||
36 | 2 | "The Visitor" | Ildikó Táborita | Robin Driscoll | Sharon Smith | 10 May 2004 | |
Mr. Bean's old friend and kindergarten classmate Harry comes for a visit at his flat. Unfortunately, Harry is a gluttonous man who eats lots of food until Bean's fridge is completely empty. Bean attempts to get rid of his friend but he abducts Teddy, so he then pursues him. Bean then decides to bring Harry to a fancy restaurant and order everything in the menu, to which he escapes from the bathroom while Harry is busy eating. When Harry fails to pay the bill, he is ordered to wash all the dishes as payment and Bean manages to get Teddy back. | |||||||
37 | 3 | "Big TV" | Andrei Ignatenko | Tony Haase | Trevor Ricketts | 11 May 2004 | |
Mr. Bean and Irma watch TV, but since Bean wants to watch the space show while Irma wants to see Andre's music, they quickly keep changing the channel back and forth until the TV explodes. Bean then goes out to buy a new TV and fancies a large-screen model, but he cannot afford it. He decides to earn money for the big TV by doing a puppet space theatre and manages to buy the TV. However, the new TV explodes from the same fighting as earlier, so Bean decides to have a puppet show featuring Andre singing while his Teddy swings the torch light, much to Irma's delight. | |||||||
38 | 4 | "Keyboard Capers" | Andrei Ignatenko and Mihály Sikur | Mark Clompus | Chris Butler | 12 May 2004 | |
When Mr. Bean's record of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is broken, he decides to buy a new record until he sees a grand piano to which he wants to play it but it has been sold to a short man. When it becomes out of tune, the man cancels the order and Bean buys it. When he plays it at home, it is out of tune because Teddy is stuck to the piano strings, but he still cannot get the hang of it even when he calls the piano instructor (the short man from earlier). Afterwards, the instructor gets an idea of recording Beethoven's symphony for Bean. | |||||||
39 | 5 | "Artful Bean" | Katalin Móré | Robin Driscoll | Dean Roberts | 14 May 2004 | |
Because he does not have any actual paint, Mr. Bean decides to create makeshift paint using various condiments such as ketchup, mustard, cabbage juice, blueberries and mouldy cheese, but the flies would not move away from it because they like it. He sells it for £5 until he hatches a scheme of getting their money without returning it to the panicked customers after they escape from the flies and drop the painting. | |||||||
40 | 6 | "The Fly" | Katalin Móré | Jon Canter | Trevor Ricketts | 17 May 2004 | |
On a very hot summer night, a fly enters Mr. Bean's flat, keeping him awake. Most of the attempts he tries to get rid of it fail (almost successful in some attempts), until he manages to trap it in his fridge. He moves the fridge outside, but Mrs. Wicket kicks him out after accidentally waking her up, forcing him to sleep inside the fridge for the rest of the night. The next morning, the fly returns to Bean's flat and sleeps in his bed. | |||||||
41 | 7 | "A Royal Makeover" | Katalin Móré | Robin Driscoll | Chris Drew | 18 May 2004 | |
Mr. Bean redecorates his room by making it fit for a queen, but goes too far when he names it "The Palace". As a result, Mrs. Wicket (seeing this as an opportunity to gain money due to lack of funds to pay her bills) becomes the "queen" and makes Bean her slave, to which she wages him only a cent. In retaliation, Bean decides to ruin the decoration and expose Mrs. Wicket to everyone for the fraud she really is. | |||||||
42 | 8 | "SuperMarrow" | Sergey Gordeev | Jon Canter | Ben Lewis | 19 May 2004 | |
Mr. Bean and the father-and-son compete for the incoming biggest marrow competition. Thanks to the super light lamps, Mr. Bean's marrow grows heavier and heavier until the father and son decide to sabotage it by putting caterpillars in Bean's marrow. The next day at the competition, they swap their marrow with Bean's while he is not looking, but they fail to realise that their caterpillars are inside. Seeing this, Bean convinces the judge that the marrow he is holding is his and ultimately wins the trophy. | |||||||
43 | 9 | "A Running Battle" | Mihály Sikur; Mikhail Tumelia (co-director) | Jon Canter | Chris Drew | 20 May 2004 | |
Mr. Bean participates in a running marathon across London where he starts a rivalry with another runner. While running, Bean and the runner cheat by riding a taxi and departing without paying the fare, thus causing the driver to chase them until the runner hits a post box, injuring him. Bean then continues to run, but he accidentally releases a dog, resulting in the dog chasing and biting him when reaching the finish line, resulting in Bean both winning the race and ending up in the hospital along with the runner. | |||||||
44 | 10 | "Egg and Bean" | Sergey Gordeev; Mikhail Tumelia (co-director) | Lee Cornes | Sharon Smith | 21 May 2004 | |
Mr. Bean adopts a stork after finding a nest on the rooftop. When it grows Bean tries to make it fly but fails until it finally manages to fly. That night, he sees the stork with a family and adopts them. | |||||||
45 | 11 | "Camping" | Mihály Sikur | Tony Haase | Sharon Smith | 24 May 2004 | |
Mr. Bean decides to go camping, but after Scrapper deliberately destroys his tent, he goes to the department store where he starts a rivalry with the store's security guard after the latter deliberately switches the tent into the inflatable raft. Bean steals Mrs. Wicket's shed as his new tent and gets revenge by luring the security guard's dog to the shed with his sandwiches and sending the guard's trailer on the lake with an inflatable raft. Mrs. Wicket then goes to the shed and is shocked to see the dog Bean put inside. The final scene shows Bean driving off in his Mini. | |||||||
46 | 12 | "Chocks Away" | Andrei Ignatenko | Lee Cornes | Chris Butler | 25 May 2004 | |
After Teddy gets torn by a boy's remote-controlled model aeroplane, Mr. Bean decides to get revenge by buying his own model plane. When a girl is about to buy the last plane in the shop, Bean throws the girl's doll and manages to buy the plane but he gets bumped by the guard and finds one part to be missing: the propeller. He goes back to the toy store, only to be blocked by the guard but manages to fool him and retrieves the propeller. Bean then flies the plane with Teddy riding as pilot and manages to knock down the boy's plane, but the boy's father breaks Bean's remote while the plane is still in flight, causing the plane to go out of sight. Later at night, the plane returns but catches fire from a line of candles, zooms up to the sky, and explodes. Bean is distraught thinking he lost Teddy forever; fortunately Teddy is ejected and falls down his chimney. | |||||||
47 | 13 | "Hopping Mad!" | Andrei Ignatenko | Lee Cornes | Chris Drew | 26 May 2004 | |
Mr. Bean takes frogspawn from the park to his flat, but once the frogs become adults, they turn aggressive. While dealing with the frogs, Mrs. Wicket and her two friends are having a party, in which the floor collapses and the frogs attack Mrs. Wicket, Scrapper and her two friends. Bean then finally lures the frogs by throwing meat into a bus, but when he sighs in relief, Scrapper (who manages to escape the attack) gives him a frog who drags Bean with its tongue. | |||||||
48 | 14 | "A Grand Invitation" | Andrei Ignatenko; Igor Veichtaguin (co-director) | Gary Parker | Trevor Ricketts | 26 May 2004 | |
After saving a lady's dog, Mr. Bean is invited to lunch at a grand old desperate manor house. | |||||||
49 | 15 | "No Pets" | Miklós Varga | Robin Driscoll | Chris Butler | 27 May 2004 | |
Mr. Bean adopts a dog, a parrot and then a chameleon, but Mrs. Wicket refuses to allow any other pet than Scrapper in the apartment building. | |||||||
50 | 16 | "Ray of Sunshine" | Miklós Varga | Robin Driscoll | Andrei Kolpin | 28 May 2004 | |
Mr. Bean goes to the beach to get a tan, but when the country man arrives and prevents him from exposing to the sun, he finds another place. When the nimbus cloud covers the sun, he is desperate and chases the beam of sunlight across London. | |||||||
51 | 17 | "Bean in Love" | Katalin Móré | Tony Haase | Chris Butler | 2 June 2004 | |
Mr. Bean falls in love with a beautiful singer named Roxy and goes to great lengths to get an autograph from her. His attempts are mostly foiled by her bodyguard until he manages to get a kiss mark from Roxy using her handkerchief. | |||||||
52 | 18 | "Double Trouble" | Zhenia Pavlenko and Elena Rogova | Robin Driscoll | Sharon Smith | 2 June 2004 | |
While waiting for the sweet shop to open, Mr. Bean encounters his doppelganger named Mr. Pod whom he befriends. When they arrive in Bean's flat, Mr. Pod is suddenly attracted romantically to Irma, making Bean jealous. After Pod and Irma leave, Bean realizes that Irma forgot Lottie to which Bean pursues them to return her. At the park, Pod and Irma see that an alien spaceship landed in which Pod goes inside. Bean also goes inside and meets with his other doubles as the spaceship departs, leaving Irma distraught. Seeing this, Pod ejects Bean from the spaceship and he falls to the ground (similar to the opening scene of the original series) to which Bean salutes the spaceship and drives home with Irma. Note: This is the last episode of the series to be used in digital ink-and-paint animation. From the fourth series onward, the series is animated entirely with flash. |
Series 4 (2015–16)
Following an 11-year hiatus, a fourth series consisting of 52 episodes begins broadcasting on 16 February 2015.[1]
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date | |
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53 | 1 | "Home Movie" | Tim Fehrenbach | Tony Haase | Trevor Ricketts and Bill Elliott | 16 February 2015 | |
When Bean finds out people who make films get famous, he decides to create his own horror movie. | |||||||
54 | 2 | "Fish Sitting" | Tim Fehrenbach | Robin Driscoll | Benedict Bowen and Bill Elliott | 16 February 2015 | |
Bean has to look after Mrs. Wicket's goldfish whilst she's away. But there's a problem: Scrapper eats fish so chaos occurs with the fish, Bean and Scrapper. (derived from "Cat-Sitting" of Series 1). | |||||||
55 | 3 | "The Cruise" | Tim Fehrenbach | Tony Haase | Sharon Smith and Bill Elliott | 17 February 2015 | |
Mr Bean wins two tickets for him and Teddy to go on a cruise holiday, but he accidentally falls off the ship while showing off to a new friend and finds a desert island and he tries to survive there. | |||||||
56 | 4 | "Coconut Shy" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Benedict Bowen and Bill Elliott | 17 February 2015 | |
Mr. Bean decides to buy a cup for Teddy but since he has no money, he heads to the funfair. Once there, he finds that he can win a female Teddy with a £10 note on it at a coconut shy. After several failed attempts to win, he sneaks inside and discovers it was rigged — the coconut is glued to the tripod. As a result, the angry carnival barker chases Bean around the funfair via a ghost train, a roller coaster, a candy floss stall and finally a helter skelter, which ends with the owner being thrown and landing in his own kiosk. Upon obtaining the female Teddy and £10 note, Bean buys two cups for both Teddy and the female Teddy. | |||||||
57 | 5 | "Green Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Robin Driscoll | Sharon Smith and Bill Elliott | 18 February 2015 | |
Mr. Bean's electricity is cut off after Mrs. Wicket sees his high electricity bill, so Bean builds a wind turbine as a replacement. Mrs. Wicket wants to use her hair dryer but, since there are no sockets available, she steals the electricity of Bean's turbine. When strong winds fry Bean's appliances and Mrs. Wicket's hair dryer, she ends up burning her hair; she is sent to hospital and Bean manages to get his electricity back on. | |||||||
58 | 6 | "Cash Machine" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Michelle Dabbs, Peter Mays, and Bill Elliott | 18 February 2015 | |
Mr. Bean wants to buy a fancy cupcake, but because his wallet is empty, he decides to visit a cash dispenser. After several failed attempts to use the machine, his card is rejected and swallowed by the machine. Bean then steals a box of tools from a nearby repairman's van to unscrew the front of the machine in order to retrieve his card, thereby triggering the cash dispenser's alarm and alerting the police. Fortunately, Bean manages to hide inside the machine before the police officers find him, but he accidentally falls into the vault, finds his card and escapes just as the police officers raid the vault. Bean tries his card again after finding out that his note of his PIN was upside down (he incorrectly read it as 1861 but it is actually 1981). Finally, Bean successfully withdraws the money and buys the last remaining cupcake just in time before the bakery runs out of cupcakes. As Bean drives back home while eating his cupcake, the police officers mistakenly suspect and arrest the repairman when he attempts to retrieve his toolbox. | |||||||
59 | 7 | "Litterbugs" | Tim Fehrenbach | Robin Driscoll | Jean-Paul Vermeulen and Bill Elliott | 19 February 2015 | |
Mr. Bean is furious with the untidy state of the streets, so he goes on a one-man mission to clean up the town. | |||||||
60 | 8 | "Rat Trap" | Tim Fehrenbach | Robin Driscoll | Sharon Smith and Bill Elliott | 19 February 2015 | |
Mr. Bean has to deal with an unwanted house guest, but the stubborn rat refuses to leave. His only idea to get rid of the rat is to do like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, but is then surrounded and pursued by a herd of rats. | |||||||
61 | 9 | "Valentine's Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Robin Driscoll | Jean-Paul Vermeulen and Bill Elliott | 20 February 2015 | |
Mr. Bean tries to be romantic but his idea of what that means is different to Irma's. However, another eyebrow-flaunting man also tries to be romantic with her and Bean disables her from him. In the Valentine funfair, after they go to the fortune teller, Bean and Irma go to the Raffle of Love and pick a ticket numbered 77 (according to the fortune teller). Unfortunately, Bean slips and the wind blows the ticket away until it lands at the restaurant. Bean successfully retrieves it, but it is too late. The initial winner of the Raffle of Love is number 77 but when no one responds, the man picks another ticket. The lucky winner is number 76, which the other man has picked, and thus Irma chooses the other man. Bean goes back to the funfair and discovers it is too late, as he finds the two kissing and walking off together. | |||||||
62 | 10 | "All You Can Eat" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Michelle Dabbs, Peter Mays, and Bill Elliott | 20 February 2015 | |
Irma is coming for dinner, but Mr. Bean has forgotten about it and does not have anything to cook. He goes to the supermarket (from "Super Trolley") where he finds that there is a pie-eating contest in which whoever can eat a whole pie more quickly than the maker of the pies will win his shopping for free. After several failed attempts to win, Bean eventually wins by sneakily adding strong chili sauce to the maker's pie. When Bean returns home, Irma is furious with him for taking so long. Note: This episode is a sequel of "Dinner for Two" from Series 2. | |||||||
63 | 11 | "Flat Pack" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Paul Stone, Isabel Castellano, and Bill Elliott | 23 February 2015 | |
When Mr. Bean's bookcase collapses, he buys a new one in the furniture store, but is annoyed to learn that he has to assemble it himself. After assembling it, Bean realises that there is one screw missing, so he sneaks back into the store to steal a screw and finally assembles the bookcase. | |||||||
64 | 12 | "Holiday for Teddy" | Tim Fehrenbach | Tony Haase | Benedict Bowen and Bill Elliott | 24 February 2015 | |
Bean and Teddy go on holiday to the seaside but he finds a spoilt liitle girl who wants Teddy to all herself. | |||||||
65 | 13 | "The Newspaper" | Tim Fehrenbach | Robin Driscoll | Paul Stone, Isabel Castellano, and Bill Elliott | 25 February 2015 | |
Every time Mr. Bean goes to collect the newspaper from the letterbox, it suddenly disappears. After Bean accuses the little girl who delivers the newspapers for the thievery, he finally realizes that the one who is responsible for taking the newspapers are a group of squirrels, who serve the newspaper as their food. | |||||||
66 | 14 | "Viral Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Alex Collier | Trevor Ricketts and Bill Elliott | 4 September 2015 | |
At the library, Mr. Bean reads his book but gets distracted by too much noise. When he notices a video in the library computer, he gets an idea of making his own viral video. His first attempts fail (when the video hits only the small views) but while attempting the second the librarian kicks Bean out of the library and he hits a nearby post; the computer inadvertently records the incident, making him viral. After struggling to avoid a group of paparazzi, it turns out to be just a nightmare, to which Bean wakes up in front of the computer showing his video of the first attempt. Bean then happily deletes it and heads home, only to accidentally hit the post again, making a nearby waste collector (from Bean's nightmare) laugh at him. | |||||||
67 | 15 | "Super Spy" | Tim Fehrenbach | Tony Haase | Richard Bazley and Bill Elliott | 4 September 2015 | |
Fascinated by the Super Spy show, Mr. Bean decides to become a super spy himself. When he becomes suspicious of the Bruisers planning something, Bean follows them around. When he later sees the Bruisers putting an old lady on the van, Bean thinks that they are kidnapping her and calls the police to arrest them, but this is revealed to be a misunderstanding because the Bruisers are actually celebrating their grandma's birthday. | |||||||
68 | 16 | "Scout Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Jimmy Hibbert | Sharon Smith and Bill Elliott | 4 September 2015 | |
When Irma's scout master is disabled, Mr. Bean unwittingly becomes the substitute scout master to take care of Irma and her kid scouts. Unfortunately, Bean's obsession with badge-collecting only makes the kid scouts unhappy. | |||||||
69 | 17 | "Back to School" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Richard Bazley and Bill Elliott | 4 September 2015 | |
When there is no milk for his tea and for teddy, Mr. Bean goes to buy milk. However, the only place he can find to park is a school car park, and he is mistaken by the headteacher for a new teacher due to start that day forced to teach a group of juvenile delinquents, but he actually may be a better teacher than he thought. | |||||||
70 | 18 | "Lord Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Mark Marren and Bill Elliott | 4 September 2015 | |
While drawing a family tree of kings at the library, an old lady tells Mr. Bean that he looks like a king named Lord Bean in the book she is reading, to which Bean heads to Scotland where Lord Bean's castle is located in order to explore. There, he accidentally discovers the secret places and as he finds the real identical Lord Bean, he gets him out. | |||||||
71 | 19 | "Car Wars" | Tim Fehrenbach | Robin Driscoll | Trevor Ricketts and Bill Elliott | 7 September 2015 | |
After yet another run-in with Mr. Bean of the usual kind, the Reliant Supervan finally takes revenge on Bean by making him crash his Mini into a lorry full of breakable objects and fall into a pond in the park. That night, Bean is chased in his Mini by the Reliant to a scrapyard, where the driver sneaks out of the Reliant and crushes his Mini into a cube. The next day, Bean brings the remains of his Mini to a garage to have it rebuilt. | |||||||
72 | 20 | "Wedding Day" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Michelle Dabbs, Peter Mays, and Bill Elliott | 8 September 2015 | |
While Mr. Bean is shopping for flowers for Irma's birthday, a wedding car crashes, resulting in Bean coming to the rescue and offering the bride a lift to the wedding. While doing so, Irma comes on his way and Bean ignores her birthday deal, making an angry Irma chase him around town, believing he is being unfaithful. Bean manages to bring the bride on time and after the wedding, the bride throws the flower and Irma catches it. Note: This episode is related to Series 2's Young Bean and similar to Double Trouble from Series 3 as well. | |||||||
73 | 21 | "Bean Phone" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Les Eaves and Bill Elliott | 9 September 2015 | |
Mr. Bean wants a smartphone, but he does not have enough money to buy one. Instead, he makes a smartphone-like object; a large rucksack with smartphone "applications". | |||||||
74 | 22 | "Hotel Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Tony Haase | Richard Bazley and Bill Elliott | 10 September 2015 | |
Mr. Bean has some unexpected Japanese guests who think he runs a hotel. | |||||||
75 | 23 | "Jurassic Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Robin Driscoll | Leigh Fieldhouse and Bill Elliott | 11 September 2015 | |
While taking photos of wildlife, Mr. Bean finds big footprints which belong to a dinosaur to which he flees from it until he gets an idea to take a photo of it in the hopes of becoming famous. However, the dinosaur turns out to be part of a set for a movie called Jurassic Hero, to which Bean becomes the star. | |||||||
76 | 24 | "Caring Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Alex Collier | Paul Stone, Isabel Castellano, and Bill Elliott | 14 September 2015 | |
When Mrs. Wicket is accidentally disabled by Mr. Bean's toy car, Bean takes care of her, but it only messes him up when Mrs. Wicket calls him by ringing the bell unexpectedly. When Scrapper messes up Bean's kitchen, he becomes a slave to her until he gets fed up with this. While Mrs. Wicket is asleep, Bean in retaliation puts his toy cars under her chair, controls it and Mrs. Wicket ends up trapped in the shed. | |||||||
77 | 25 | "Opera Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Jimmy Hibbert | Richard Bazley and Bill Elliott | 15 September 2015 | |
Since his Mini has broken down and is late meeting Irma at the opera, Mr. Bean arrives on foot but is refused entry because of his filthy attire. Forced to borrow some clothes from the local launderette, Bean is mistaken for the star of the show and ends up giving the operatic performance of a lifetime on the stage. Note: This episode features the song "O mio babbino caro". | |||||||
78 | 26 | "Taxi Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Les Eaves and Bill Elliott | 16 September 2015 | |
When one of the toy cars of his racing track set break by accident, Mr. Bean goes to the toy shop to buy a new track set, but because his Mini has a flat tyre, he instead decides to take a taxi. Along the way, the driver deliberately drives Bean around London to get a higher fare, then he stops at a petrol station to eat lunch in a café. While waiting, Bean is mistaken by several people as the taxi driver and Bean reluctantly drives the taxi, but manages to return the taxi to the petrol station without getting caught. When the taxi driver drops Bean off the toy store, he looks on the taxi meter that his fare is low, to which Bean pays him only 85 pence and buys a bigger track set for his flat. | |||||||
79 | 27 | "Muscle Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Alex Collier | Richard Bazley and Bill Elliott | 4 January 2016 | |
Mr. Bean needs to impress Irma who is infatuated with the hunky deliveryman. Bean tries to improve his physique at the gym, but to little avail. Instead, he purchases an inflatable muscle suit, but while hanging out with Irma, the suit begins to leak and Bean struggles to fix it while hiding from Irma by putting the sticker on leaking part and filling it with gas. Unfortunately, because he just filled it up with helium he begins to fly and lands on the top of the tree. When the deliveryman fails to rescue Bean, Irma rescues Bean instead, losing her heart to the deliveryman while Bean apologizes to Irma for deceiving her. Later, Bean and Irma hang out again with Bean giving a muscle balloon to her. | |||||||
80 | 28 | "A New Friend" | Tim Fehrenbach | Tony Haase | Richard Bazley and Bill Elliott | 5 January 2016 | |
A small bird wants to befriend Mr. Bean, but its squawking sound annoys Mrs. Wicket, so Bean decides to get it out of his flat, but the bird stubbornly refuses to leave. Bean tries to trick the bird into leaving his flat, but fails. When Mrs. Wicket reprimands Bean for the second time, the bird finally leaves. When another small bird wants to befriend Bean, he refuses. | |||||||
81 | 29 | "The Lift" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Leigh Fieldhouse and Bill Elliott | 6 January 2016 | |
Mr. Bean goes up in the lift to the top floor of a toy shop, but Teddy gets stuck in the doors, and the lift breaks down. After the firemen force open the lift doors and remove Teddy, Mr. Bean buys the last toy car resembling his Mini, but instead gives it to a young boy in exchange for Teddy. | |||||||
82 | 30 | "Dig This" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Paul Stone, Isabel Castellano, and Bill Elliott | 7 January 2016 | |
Mr. Bean digs a hole in his garden and finds a bomb, to which he tries to warn Mrs. Wicket and her friend, but they disbelieve him, leaving Mr. Bean into trying to disarm the bomb himself. Due to Scrapper's interference, he cuts the wrong wire which speeds up the timer. He manages to drag Mrs. Wicket and her friend to the bomb, resulting in them quickly barricading themselves in the apartment building. When Bean notices Teddy near the bomb, he successfully retrieves him but is unable to get Scrapper in the apartment just as the bomb explodes, which sends Scrapper flying into the Bruisers' pool and mud raining down on the Bruisers. When a broken water pipe in the crater sprays water out, Bean turns the muddy crater into a homemade pool for him, Mrs. Wicket and her friend to relax while the Bruisers glare at them. | |||||||
83 | 31 | "Bean Hypnotised" | Tim Fehrenbach | Alex Collier | Les Eaves and Bill Elliott | 8 January 2016 | |
Mr. Bean attends a hypnotism show where he unwittingly volunteers to be hypnotized; when the hypnotist makes him think he is a dog, he runs back home where he chases Scrapper around the garden and the apartment building. | |||||||
84 | 32 | "Car Wash" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Colin White and Bill Elliott | 11 January 2016 | |
After a stubborn pigeon defecates on his Mini, Mr. Bean washes it thoroughly. A passing motorist, impressed with the shiny car, asks Bean to wash his car, offering him £10, and he constructs makeshift car washing equipment at the side of the road. Further passing motorists think Bean runs a car wash, and he washes their cars while Mrs. Wicket offers them tea and biscuits. Finally, Bean washes a blue car, but a passing flock of birds defecate on it. When the normal removal method does not work, Bean uses his electric mixer to remove it, but scratches the paint off the car in the process. To compensate for this, Bean grinds the blue paint off the whole car, revealing the silver metal underneath, only to be annoyed by the officer. A moment later, the Queen emerges from the car, likes the new look, and thanks Bean for his work. After Bean receives a substantial payment and the Queen departs, Mrs. Wicket steals the money. | |||||||
85 | 33 | "Where Did You Get That Cat?" | Tim Fehrenbach | Jimmy Hibbert | Leigh Fieldhouse and Bill Elliott | 12 January 2016 | |
Mrs. Wicket gets a new hat that looks a lot like Scrapper. During a chase between Mr. Bean and Scrapper, the latter accidentally knocks Mrs. Wicket's sideboard down, squashing the hat, to which the former mistakes the hat for the actual Scrapper and takes it to the vet. Note: This episode is also derived from "Dead Cat" of Series 1. | |||||||
86 | 34 | "Valuable Lessons" | Tim Fehrenbach | Robin Driscoll | Paul Stone, Isabel Castellano, and Bill Elliott | 13 January 2016 | |
After noticing Mr. Bean and Mrs. Wicket with a lot of money, the burglar duo hatch up an evil plan in which one of them disguises himself as a gentleman to marry Mrs. Wicket in the hopes on getting her money. Eventually, the burglar duo are arrested again but this leaves Mrs. Wicket heartbroken. Note: This episode is a sequel to "Bean's Bounty" from Series 1. | |||||||
87 | 35 | "Halloween" | Tim Fehrenbach | Alex Collier | Les Eaves and Bill Elliott | 14 January 2016 | |
On Halloween night, Mr. Bean prepares to give the children some tricks and treats they will not forget but gets carried away with his spooky pranks and becomes the target of even more fiendish tricks by the Bruisers. | |||||||
88 | 36 | "Bean Painting" | Tim Fehrenbach | Tony Haase | Richard Bazley and Bill Elliott | 15 January 2016 | |
While painting a picture of Teddy, Mr. Bean accidentally splashes some green paint on his wall. He goes to a DIY store and buys two cans of brown paint, but accidentally takes home another customer's green paint cans instead. When Bean arrives home, he paints his entire wallpaper green, and experiences a series of nightmares. | |||||||
89 | 37 | "Wrestle Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Alex Collier | Paul Stone, Isabel Castellano, and Bill Elliott | 18 January 2016 | |
Mr. Bean becomes an accidental wrestling champion with a little help from Mrs. Wicket and her friend. | |||||||
90 | 38 | "Rare Bird" | Tim Fehrenbach | Tony Haase | Paul Stone, Isabel Castellano, and Bill Elliott | 19 January 2016 | |
Mr. Bean is desperate to tick off the last elusive bird in his bird-spotting book. | |||||||
91 | 39 | "Bean's Safari" | Tim Fehrenbach | Jimmy Hibbert | Leigh Fieldhouse and Bill Elliott | 20 January 2016 | |
Mr. Bean visits a safari park where he catches the attention of a baby monkey, and unknowingly takes the monkey home in his Mini. After hearing the news that the monkey has been stolen, Bean managed to safely return it without getting caught. | |||||||
92 | 40 | "A Round of Golf" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Paul Stone, Isabel Castellano, and Bill Elliott | 22 February 2016 | |
Mr. Bean fancies a game of golf, so he creates his own golf course inside his flat and invites Irma to come over for a round. | |||||||
93 | 41 | "Superhero Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Alex Collier | Paul Stone, Isabel Castellano, and Bill Elliott | 23 February 2016 | |
Mr. Bean becomes a superhero in an attempt to stop a cunning thief who stole his wallet and Mrs. Wicket's jewellery. | |||||||
94 | 42 | "What a Load of Rubbish" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Les Eaves and Bill Elliott | 24 February 2016 | |
Mr. Bean is a bit too enthusiastic while cleaning his flat; Teddy accidentally gets thrown away and ends up being sent to the rubbish dump. | |||||||
95 | 43 | "The Robot" | Tim Fehrenbach | Jimmy Hibbert | Richard Bazley and Bill Elliott | 25 February 2016 | |
Mr. Bean buys a robot to help him clean up his flat, but it ends up creating destruction around London after it malfunctions. | |||||||
96 | 44 | "Ice Cream" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Paul Stone, Isabel Castellano, and Bill Elliott | 26 February 2016 | |
Mr. Bean wants an ice cream cone from the ice cream van but ends up serving himself along with every kid in town. | |||||||
97 | 45 | "Birthday Party" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Krystal Georgiou, Bill Elliott, and Jess Jackson | 29 February 2016 | |
Mr. Bean is feeling down, as everyone has forgotten his birthday. When Bean learns that Mrs. Wicket is having a party downstairs, he tries to crash it but the bouncer refuses Bean's entry as he has no invitation from Mrs. Wicket. After several failed attempts to enter, Bean then finds his invitation card which was hidden below his mat all the time and is finally allowed to enter only to find that the party has just finished. | |||||||
98 | 46 | "In the Garden" | Tim Fehrenbach | Robin Driscoll | Michelle Dabbs, Peter Mays, Bill Elliott, and Jess Jackson | 1 March 2016 | |
Mr. Bean tries to mow the lawn in the garden, but finds it difficult and inconvenient. | |||||||
99 | 47 | "A Magic Day Out" | Tim Fehrenbach | Alex Collier | Leigh Fieldhouse and Bill Elliott | 2 March 2016 | |
Mr. Bean and Irma are off for a day at the seaside where their trunk gets accidentally swapped with that of a stage magician. | |||||||
100 | 48 | "Ball Pool" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Richard Bazley and Bill Elliott | 4 March 2016 | |
Mr. Bean wants to play inside the local play area, but he is not allowed to enter because it is only for children. He manages to sneak inside and enjoy the rest of the play area until the annoyed parents call the security guard to kick Bean outside. Bean instead decides to convert his flat into a play area, but this unexpectedly attracts the visitors. | |||||||
101 | 49 | "Pizza Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Jones | Krystal Georgiou and Bill Elliott | 7 March 2016 | |
Mr. Bean orders a takeaway pizza, but when it arrives, he feels disgruntled by the size of it. Bean instead sets out to bake his own pizza and establishes his own homemade pizza business, but this soon gets him in deep trouble with the leader of the biggest pizza empire around, Don Crustyoni. | |||||||
102 | 50 | "The Photograph" | Tim Fehrenbach | Alex Collier | Richard Bazley and Bill Elliott | 8 March 2016 | |
When the airport staff refuse to let Mr. Bean take a flight due to his passport having no photo, Bean attempts to make a new one, but his attempts at doing so fail due to Bean posing ugly at the photo booth, putting a picture from the booth using tape and even photobombing at a tourist's camera. At a final attempt, Bean proceeds to take a picture of himself at the traffic camera, but is then arrested by two nearby police officers. After being released from the police station, Bean allows his passport with his mugshot photo and the personnel finally accepts it, but then says his flight already departed 20 minutes ago, disgruntling him. | |||||||
103 | 51 | "Dancing Bean" | Tim Fehrenbach | Jimmy Hibbert | Richard Bazley, Bill Elliott, and Jess Jackson | 9 March 2016 | |
Mr. Bean learns to dance in order to impress Irma. | |||||||
104 | 52 | "Bean Shopping" | Tim Fehrenbach | Jimmy Hibbert | Leigh Fieldhouse and Bill Elliott | 10 March 2016 | |
Mr. Bean accidentally gets locked in a department store overnight but has the time of his life until he comes face-to-face with a burglar. |
Special episode (2018)
Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date | |
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"Diamonds Are a Bean's Best Friend" | Dave Osborne | Earl Kress | Paul Stone & Robert Smith | 30 October 2018[3] | |
In this 3-minute short exclusive to YouTube, Mr. Bean receives a YouTube Diamond Play Button award for surpassing 10,000,000 subscribers in the mail. |
Series 5 (2019)
Following yet another 3-year hiatus, a fifth series consisting of 26 episodes premiered on April 9, 2019 on CITV as well as on Turner channels worldwide.[2] Unlike the past two series, it is the first since series 2 to have two 11-minute back-to-back segments than single episodes.
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date | |
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105 | 1 | "Game Over" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | David Stoten and Robert Smith | 9 April 2019 | |
After being introduced to gaming by Mrs. Wicket's nephew, Mr. Bean decides to get his own gaming console. | |||||||
106 | 2 | "Special Delivery" | Dave Osborne | Alex Collier | Bill Elliott and Robert Smith | 9 April 2019 | |
Mr. Bean is forced to stay in to receive delivery of Mrs. Wicket's new lounge chair, so he dresses up as her to ensure it is delivered. | |||||||
107 | 3 | "A Dog's Life" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Hugh La Terriere and Robert Smith | 16 April 2019 | |
Mr. Bean is charged with keeping an eye on Irma's dog Mopsy, but Mopsy is a very willful pooch. | |||||||
108 | 4 | "Big Stink" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Benedict Bowen and Robert Smith | 16 April 2019 | |
Mr. Bean crashes his Mini into a pool of slurry, resulting in Bean being desperate to get himself, his Mini and Teddy clean again. | |||||||
109 | 5 | "Birthday Bother" | Dave Osborne | Alex Collier | Alun Edwards and Robert Smith | 23 April 2019 | |
On Irma's birthday, Mr. Bean writes out two cards; one nice card and one silly card. Unfortunately, he gets the envelopes mixed up and thus sends the wrong card. After getting the silly card from the postman on the next day, Bean accidentally gave Irma the bad card, so Irma storms back into her house. Bean then tries to get Irma's attention. | |||||||
110 | 6 | "Bed Bean" | Dave Osborne | Alex Collier | Hugh La Terriere and Robert Smith | 23 April 2019 | |
Mr. Bean breaks his bed after using it as a trampoline, so he tries to fix it but fails. The next morning, he goes to buy a brand new bed. | |||||||
111 | 7 | "Spa Day" | Dave Osborne | Alex Collier | Bill Elliott and Robert Smith | 30 April 2019 | |
When Mrs. Wicket’s out for a spa day, Mr. Bean stays in his car. | |||||||
112 | 8 | "Charity Bean" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Benedict Bowen and Robert Smith | 30 April 2019 | |
At the fair, Irma encourages Mr. Bean to go face-to-face with fundraising star Declan to help support money for a donkey sanctuary. | |||||||
113 | 9 | "Bean Encore" | Dave Osborne | Denise Cassar | Alun Edwards and Robert Smith | 7 May 2019 | |
The Great Eduardo, violinist supreme, is in town and Irma wants to go to the concert, but Mr. Bean claims that he can play the violin better. Note: Unlike any other episodes, the end credits feature an off-key violin remix to the theme tune. | |||||||
114 | 10 | "Mobile Home" | Dave Osborne | Alex Collier | Hugh La Terriere and Robert Smith | 7 May 2019 | |
Miss Wince takes Mrs. Wicket on holiday in her brand-new caravan and Mr. Bean is left behind, who then decides to build his own caravan instead. | |||||||
115 | 11 | "Haunted House" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Benedict Bowen and Robert Smith | 14 May 2019 | |
Mr. Bean impresses some kids in the park with his football skills, but ends up accidentally kicking their ball into a dilapidated and scary-looking house. | |||||||
116 | 12 | "Eau de Bean" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Sam Dransfield and Robert Smith | 14 May 2019 | |
Mr. Bean accidentally spills all of Mrs. Wicket's new, expensive perfume on the floor, to which he attempts to hide the crime and cover his tracks. | |||||||
117 | 13 | "Running on Empty" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Alun Edwards and Robert Smith | 21 May 2019 | |
Mr. Bean is on his way to the seaside when the Mini runs out of petrol. Undeterred, he manages to get a push, but for some reason the do-gooders do not want to push him all the way to the beach. | |||||||
118 | 14 | "Bean Bug" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Bill Elliott and Robert Smith | 30 September 2019 | |
Mr. Bean becomes Mrs. Wicket's housemate when he suffers a flea infestation. After 24 hours, Mr. Bean decided to go back to his room upstairs and Mrs. Wicket also suffers a flea infestation if she's turn but she saw a big mess while doing her chores. | |||||||
119 | 15 | "Coffee Bean" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Benedict Bowen and Robert Smith | 30 September 2019 | |
After accidentally ordering a tiny cup of espresso which cost £5.00, Mr. Bean is determined to make the best cup of java ever and to get rich brewing it. | |||||||
120 | 16 | "The Big Freeze" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Alun Edwards and Robert Smith | 1 October 2019 | |
It is cold, the boiler is not working, and Mr. Bean has to get warm fast. At the end, Bean is locked out of the house without his jacket and is stuck out there because Mrs. Wicket's asleep. | |||||||
121 | 17 | "Scrapper Cleans Up" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Hugh La Terriere and Robert Smith | 1 October 2019 | |
Mr. Bean enters Scrapper into a beauty contest so that he can win the first prize of a holiday to Paris in order to fulfil a promise to Irma. However, Mrs. Wicket steals his prize when Mr. Bean misses Teddy since Irma took it. | |||||||
122 | 18 | "Coach Trip" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | David Stoten and Robert Smith | 2 October 2019 | |
Mr. Bean disguises himself as a pensioner in order to avoid lunch with Irma and her mum. | |||||||
123 | 19 | "Save That Tree" | Dave Osborne | Alex Collier | Alun Edwards and Robert Smith | 2 October 2019 | |
Mr. Bean climbs into his favourite tree to stop it from being chopped down. | |||||||
124 | 20 | "For Sale" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | David Stoten and Robert Smith | 3 October 2019 | |
Mrs. Wicket is pressured into putting the house up for sale. Mr. Bean, worried that he will be left homeless, intervenes in destructive ways to prevent the sale. | |||||||
125 | 21 | "Jumping Bean" | Dave Osborne | Alex Collier | Benedict Bowen and Robert Smith | 3 October 2019 | |
Mr. Bean takes on the Bruisers at the local skateboard park using a mobility scooter. | |||||||
126 | 22 | "Cat Chaos" | Dave Osborne | Denise Cassar | Hugh La Terriere and Robert Smith | 4 October 2019 | |
Mrs. Wicket becomes inconsolable when Scrapper goes missing, so Mr. Bean decide to investigate. At the end, Scrapper's screaming keeps him awake. | |||||||
127 | 23 | "Stick It" | Dave Osborne | Alex Collier | Benedict Bowen and Robert Smith | 4 October 2019 | |
Mr. Bean has finished his model car collection and does not know what to do next. | |||||||
128 | 24 | "Bean at the Museum" | Dave Osborne | Denise Cassar | Alun Edwards and Robert Smith | 7 October 2019 | |
Mr. Bean digs up Bruiser Snr's medallion and rushes off to the local museum. | |||||||
129 | 25 | "A Car for Irma" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Benedict Bowen and Robert Smith | 7 October 2019 | |
Mr. Bean pimps his car in order to prove to Declan - a rival in love with Irma - that Bean's car is better. | |||||||
130 | 26 | "Trophy Bean" | Dave Osborne | Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones | Hugh La Terriere and Robert Smith | 8 October 2019 | |
Mr. Bean is forced to babysit Mrs. Wicket's nephew on an Outward Bound course. |
References
- ^ Jump up to: a b Guide, British Comedy (22 January 2014). "Rowan Atkinson working on new animated Mr Bean series". British Comedy Guide.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Mr Bean toon to return next year".
- ^ "Diamonds are a Bean's Best Friend | Special Episode | 10 Million Fan Thank You!" – via www.youtube.com.
- Lists of British animated television series episodes
- Mr. Bean