List of Mr. Bean episodes

Act 1: Mr. Bean is late for his mathematics exam and speeds past a Reliant three wheeler, nearly tipping it over. Once he reaches the college, he irritates a fellow candidate by getting out many spare pens and a number of mascots, including a Pink Panther doll. He has studied trigonometry, but he finds a calculus paper in the envelope. He spends the duration of his two hours trying to cheat off another candidate, and doesn't realize until the last minute that there were two papers in the envelope: one calculus, the other trigonometry, with the student given a choice as to which to do.

• This episode, being the pilot episode, was simply called 'Mr. Bean'. Its original opening and end titles did not feature the familiar choral music or street/spotlight theme. The titles were superimposed over Bean's journey to the college and subsequent crash at the end of the episode. Another major difference was the fact that his Mini was orange-red as opposed to the more familiar lime green that was used for other episodes. For the remastered Region 1 DVD version, the opening titles were removed and the regular titles added.
• Cameo appearance by Howard Goodall as the church organist.
• Rowan Atkinson performs the role of the vicar's voice, giving an apparently gibberish sermon.
• Reliant gag - Bean over-takes the Reliant Regal pulling in front at a very close distance. The Reliant driver panics and steers off, toppling the vehicle.
• Reliant gag - Bean drives straight at the Reliant on the road leading to the beach. The Reliant driver ends up swerving into a ditch in order to avoid a collision.
• Reliant gag - Bean selects a parking space on a field, coincidentally the space is already occupied by the Reliant which is forced onto the road. Bean, seemingly confused as to how the vehicle got there, runs off.

Act 1: Bean sees a busker playing a saxophone and wants to drop some change in his saxophone case. When he finds he has no change, he places his handkerchief on the ground and dances stupidly to the saxophone music; a woman stops by and leaves him a coin, which he then transfers to the saxophonist's case.

• The first episode to feature the 'Bean falling from sky' theme and the familiar choral music.
• Matilda Ziegler, who later plays Bean's girlfriend, appears as an attendant at the royal premiere scene.
• Rowan Atkinson performs two roles in this episode, the second being a voice over news reporter at the beginning of Act 4.

Act 1: Bean goes to a public swimming pool, and tries out the super-high diving board, and chickens out until two impatient boys push him off (by stamping on his hand as he attempts to climb down). Bean loses his swimming trunks, and is unable to retrieve them as a little girl fishes them out of the pool with a fishing net. Bean, naked, tries to get back to the changing room unseen and almost succeeds but fails.

• First appearance of Irma Gobb (Matilda Ziegler), Bean's neglected girlfriend.
• This episode (and "The Return of Mr. Bean") are the only episodes to have the black background where Mr. Bean lands from and gets sucked back from the sky at the start and the end.
• Reliant gags-Bean charges towards the entrance barrier when the driver of the Supervan takes a ticket, and, in the end, topples over.
• First appearance of Mr. Bean's green Mini
• There is a reference to Evil Dead 2 when Mr. Bean scares the girl by pretending to use a chainsaw to cut off his hand.
• Mr. Bean was frightend but acted like he was just relaxing or wanted to scare her.
• Some countries censor the last few seconds of Act 1 where Mr Bean, sans swimming trunks, turns around to face a group of girls before making a hasty retreat, due to the footage being a suggestion to outrage of modesty (in this case, flashing of genatilia).

Act 1: Bean buys a portable television for his flat, and has difficulty in trying to position the antenna to get good reception. When he discovers that he can only get reception if he sits in a part of the room where he cannot see the screen, he is distraught. Ingeniously, he strips down and assembles his clothes — underwear and all — on the chair, and the television starts working - just as his pre-paid electricity meter runs out.

• Features cameo appearances of Howard Goodall and Robin Driscoll - a cameo appearance by the writers of this show.
• This is the first time we see Mr. Bean's flat.
• The writers allude to Bean being more than just a social anomaly when they demonstrate that he seems to have a mysterious effect on television reception.
• The opening titles now feature the street scene and the music has been re-recorded.
• First episode to be produced and broadcast in stereo.
• Film, instead of video tape, is now used for outdoor scenes.
• 14.42 million viewers watched this episode on the original transmission.

Act 1: Bean oversleeps and is late for his dental appointment. In order to save time, he decides to get dressed and brush his teeth while driving to the dentist, using a brick to hold down the accelerator while he changes his trousers, and shooting screenwash into his mouth to rinse it after brushing his teeth.

• This was the highest rated episode, with an audience of 18.74 million viewers on the original transmission.
• First appearance of Teddy.
• This is the first time we see Bean's unique technique of immobilising his car by removing the steering wheel.
• Reliant gag - We see the Reliant parked in a boxed parking space outside the Dentists. Bean's mini is seen driving past and off screen. We hear Bean brake, change to reverse and then reappear directly in front of the Reliant. He slowly pushes it out of its space and onto a single yellow line where it promptly gets booked by a passing traffic warden.

Act 1: Bean wants to go to the post office, but the battery in his car is dead, so he decides to catch a bus instead. He reaches the bus stop where a man is already waiting for the bus. Unfortunately the man suddenly suffers a heart attack. Bean tries to revive him by hitting him, stuffing pills down his throat, trying mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and using electric shock treatment using jump leads connected to a nearby lamp post. This initially works, but he forgets to remove the jump leads from his hands when the man offer to shake, giving the man another electric shock which makes him pass out again. An ambulance comes, but while the paramedics treat the man, Bean uses the battery in the ambulance to jump start his Mini. Bean drives off, leaving the ambulance disabled due to a dead battery.

• The joke of Mr. Bean popping a vomit filled bag is reused in the movie Bean, although in this episode the scene ends with the popping noise of the bag, and does not show the outcome.
• The end credits of this episode is one of three to perform a volte-face: showing the reverse of the opening titles where Bean is sucked back into the sky and the only one to do so with the street scenery.

Act 1: It's Christmas Eve and Bean decides to visit Harrods causing his usual brand of chaos by behaving rather inappropriately for being in such a prestigious department store. After parking directly at the front of the store and harassing a man dressed as Father Christmas, Bean proceeds to shop for Christmas decorations subjecting them to his usual scrutiny - if it breaks, don't buy it. He also tests some Christmas lights using the same socket used for the exterior Christmas lights, plunging the outside of the store into darkness in the process. He then starts playing with the figurines in an in-store display, performing a rather inaccurate Nativity scene involving dinosaurs, army tanks and a Dalek. The manager of the store stops him by putting a figurine of a policeman onto the set. It took Bean several seconds to react to that.

• Although not the highest rated episode of Mr Bean, it came very close, with 18.48 million viewers watching the original transmission.
• The 'lights on a well known building being accidentally switched off' gag is used by comedian Peter Kay at the end of his Live at the top of the Tower DVD.
• Bean appears to have moved as the flat and its exterior have changed.
• Change of presentation style for this and the following episodes: The title sequence now simply says 'Mr. Bean'. At the end of the sequence a separate caption appears stating the title of the episode.
• Last appearance of Matilda Ziegler as Irma Gobb.
• This is the last Mr. Bean episode to have been produced for Thames Television on behalf of ITV due to that company losing its ITV franchise at the end of 1992. Subsequent episodes were produced in association with Thames Television for Central Television.
• The market scene took place in Kingston.
• During Act 1, when Mr. Bean plays with the toys, he hums The British Grenadiers when using the soldiers.

Bean stays in a posh hotel where he gets into many escapades. He jumps on the bed, decapitates teddy by putting him in the drawer, hands the bellhop some medicine instead of a tip, drills holes in the walls to hang his pictures, turns his television on at full volume, and sneaks into his neighbour's bathroom to have a bath by drilling a hole through the wall behind his wardrobe. On the way to lunch, after finding the lift is out of order, Mr. Bean is forced to take an unconventional route downstairs to avoid an elderly lady by hanging on the outside of the bannister, only to be caught between her and her frail husband. At lunchtime, after pushing through the queue, he copies his neighbour by taking the same food as him only twice as much and mimicking his movements. But he also saves his oysters for last, which his neighbour discovers to be off after Bean has devoured them. That night, he is feeling unwell with a high temperature and has a terrible dream about the oysters. Waking up in a sweat, Bean removes his pyjamas, but while attempting to sleep, his other neighbour plays loud music. Bean walks out of his room stark naked to knock on the door, but his own door closes, and Bean finds himself locked out of his room naked. He manages to get to the ground floor by covering himself with various signboards marked "Private", "Exit","Out of Order" and "No Entry". He attempts to get down to the lobby and find the spare key, as the manager is distracted by Danny La Rue's show. Bean sneaks into LaRue's spare frock, and asks for the spare key when the manager comes back. But Danny sees him and rips a clip-on earring off his ear.

• 14.31 million watched this episode on the original transmission.
• This is the first episode to incorporate only one storyline instead of separate sketches.
• The entire episode is filmed on location in a real hotel. It is also shot entirely on film, as opposed to video tape.

Bean goes to a funfair at Southsea in Portsmouth, but accidentally leaves his Mini's boot unlocked, and the handle pulls a baby's pram with it to the funfair. Once Bean sees the "kidnapped" baby, he sees no choice but to look after it while enjoying himself. After a series of misfortunes involving a dodgem, a large dog and the baby's pram, Bean decides to go off on his own, leaving the baby in a Postman Pat kiddie ride with hundreds of coins in it while he gets bored on a rollercoaster, fires an arrow at a stall tender and attempts to cheat in a games arcade. Meanwhile, a huge queue builds up by Postman Pat.

Later, after winning a goldfish, he is forced to keep the fish in his mouth after splitting the bag. However, he accidentally swallows it after winning at Bingo, then subsequently splutters it across the room into a bowl with another goldfish.

After being forced to retrieve the baby by disgruntled mothers, he cannot stop the child crying and decides to buy a huge bunch of helium-filled balloons to make it stop. However, the balloons lift the baby and pram into the air. Bean is forced to use his archery skills, with the pram landing (luckily) beside its mother, who is overjoyed to get her baby back, although confused by the teddy-bear nappy which Bean had put on it. Meanwhile, Bean drives off with the large dog in the back of his Mini without realising it.

• This episode was produced, and was intended to be broadcast on 17 February 1993, at the same time as Mr. Bean in Room 426, however the original broadcast date coincided with the abduction and murder of toddler James Bulger and therefore jokes involving an accidental baby kidnapping were considered poor taste. It was premiered over a year later.
• The entire episode is filmed on location at Clarence Pier, Southsea, Portsmouth.

Act 1: Bean invites his two friends Rupert and Hubert for a New Year party, but bores them so much that when he goes to prepare a snack, Twiglets (which are actually twigs covered with Marmite) and sugared vinegar as a substitute for Champagne, they turn his clock in the living room to midnight, sing Auld Lang Syne to celebrate the new year, and then leave, saying that they are tired. Bean is in bed when the REAL New Year begins. His blood boils with anger when he finds out Rupert and Hubert have deceived him and attended a larger party next door. Hubert, however, leaves his hat in Mr Bean's apartment.

Act 2: Bean arrives at Arding and Hobbs department store to take full advantage of the January sales. Other people have queued overnight to get there first, however Bean manages to jump the queue and annoy everyone in the process by exposing the figure in the sleeping bag at the head of the queue as a fake he placed there the night before. He then enters the store and attempts to purchace a new recliner, but an old woman sits in the chair and a store attendant explains that it is an automatic recliner. Bean, determined to purchase the recliner for himself, unplugs the chair to make it not work for her, but the attendant sees the problem and plugs it back in. While the woman sleeps in the chair, Bean sneaks up behind the chair and opens up the controls, and messes with the wires and closes the controls. The old woman then presses the button again, and this time the recliner begins to crush the woman in between the back of the chair and the leg supports. Bean watches on as the chair sets her free and she falls backwards. This scene is seen on syndicated versions of the episode.

Act 3: Later Bean has bought several items including a chair, paint cans and an assortment of brushes and mops. After strapping the chair to the roof and squeezing everything else inside the car he realises there's no room left for himself... unfortunately, he then has an idea. Bean successfully constructs a way of remotely driving the car from the chair attached to the roof and embarks on a daredevil driving expedition which goes incredibly well until he ends up on a steep decline and his only braking device is to run the car into a parked van filled with pillows.

Act 4: Bean decides to give his flat a make-over. He first realises that moving a table is impractical as he can no longer put objects on it through the hole in the kitchen wall. Bean's solution - just move the hole. He then decides to paint his room white, using the head of Teddy as a paintbrush. He quickly tires of using this method as he ends up getting paint on things. Bean's solution - he covers everything in his room (including the grapes) in newspaper and plants a super-firework in a can of white paint, ignites the firework, and runs out of the room. Bean returns to find his newly invented paint bomb worked; however while he was gone, Hubert returned to the flat for his hat he'd left the night before and got caught in the blast. Bean is shocked to find that there's a trail of white footprints leading out of his flat, and an image of Hubert reaching for his hat is frozen onto a section of wall as the only unpainted areas.

• The Mythbusters TV show ran tests to see if it was really possible to cover an entire room with paint by exploding a firework in a paint can. However, his method was proven impossible by the test.
• Mr. Bean appears to have moved flat for a third time.

This outing follows Mr. Bean attending a school open day. Unable to park his car, he spots a similar-looking Mini and substitutes the cars. During his time at the open day he distracts a calligrapher, messes up a stamp album, confuses a band of cadets, gets in other people's way, and gets paper stuck to his body after using a Van de Graaff generator. When a lady helps Bean remove the offending piece of paper, the static electricity causes her skirt to rise up and cover her upper body.

In the chemistry laboratory, Bean experiments with several chemicals, eventually causing a violent explosion, with blue smoke emerging from the laboratory. Bean manages to escape in time, but a younger student is not so fortunate and is later seen covered head to toe in a blue chemical.

In a still-life art class, Mr Bean is shocked and appalled at having to draw a naked woman, and promptly fashions a brassiere out of clay, allowing him to draw the woman without embarrassment. Later, at a judo lesson, a frightened Bean ultimately manages to confuse his teacher (David Schneider) and roll him up in a mat. However, when changing back into his regular clothes, he finds that he has swapped trousers with someone else played by Christopher Ryan, and goes on a long search for his own ones. In the gents' toilets, he spots them, cleverly seeing his name on the label while the wearer is sitting on the toilet. Bean frantically grabs the man by the legs and forces the trousers off him, as well as his underwear, which he throws back to the man — though it ends up falling down the toilet.

Bean returns to his car, which is now missing. He spots it in the middle of a car park with lots of people strangely watching it. Unbothered by this he continues towards his car intending to get in it. On his way he's distracted by a generous selection of cakes on a stand. As he chooses a cake a tank rolls past behind him, crushing his car in the process (recall the Mini he switched places with at the start of the episode). Bean is initially distraught until, from the wreckage, he manages to salvage the padlock, and joyfully runs off.

• It isn't disclosed to the viewer what Mr. Bean did with the lock he salvaged, it is only assumed that Bean claimed the Mini that should've been crushed by the tank as his own. However an identical Mini does appear in later episodes complete with padlock, bolt and the original registration plate (SLW 287R)

Act 1: Mr. Bean goes to the launderette to wash his clothes, an inflatable animal, some fluffy dice, a lamp shade, a doormat and his Teddy. He gets intimidated by a bully with a black belt in Karate who takes his washing machine and frequently makes threatening gestures towards him. Bean realises he's wearing underwear he wanted to wash so stands behind a partition to change out of them, accidentally getting his trousers mixed up with a lady's skirt. This escalates the taunting from the bully so Bean decides to get revenge on him. He substitutes the bully's soap detergent with black coffee. Unfortunately, Bean is forced to drink some detergent to disguise the fact he switched the cups. It works, and when the bully's shirt emerges severely stained from the wash, he blames the owners of the launderette. Later, after retrieving his mutated washing (including a shrunken Teddy) from the drier, Bean needs to retrieve his trousers from the lady's washing. He resorts to climbing into a drier to find them just as the lady returns and closes it with Bean still inside.

Act 2: Bean plays a game of 'Crazy Golf'. He scores a hole-in-one on the first hole, then on the second hole he hits the ball onto open grass. The owner forces him to obey a rule of having to get the ball back to the course by only touching it with his club. He then hits the ball out of the golfing grounds and this takes Bean on a very elaborate journey as the ball ends up on a bus, inside a lady's shopping, on a boy's ice-cream, up the exhaust pipe of a Proton car, down a sewer, on a rubbish cart and finally onto a village green. Bean hitchhikes a lift back to the golf course with the ball still on the patch of turf it landed on, which Bean cut out of the green. As the sun sets, he finally taps the ball into the hole with a final score of 3,427.

• The Vauxhall Omega car that stops to give Bean a lift has music playing on the car stereo, the music is the (already established) theme tune to The Vicar of Dibley, another Richard Curtis comedy. The music was also composed by Howard Goodall
• Bean drinking the detergent and getting in the drier are usually edited out of repeats on children’s channel Nickelodeon UK.
• Reliant gag - Bean attempts to hitchhike back to the golf course, the first car that approaches is the blue Reliant. Evidentially in an effort to reconcile their differences the Reliant driver pulls over and opens the passenger door. Bean pretends he's not seen him and the Reliant drives off.
• Different theme song performance (this version was later used in "The story of Mr. Bean" documentary opening)

Act 1: Mr. Bean has to go to a hospital after getting his hand stuck in a teapot, but loses patience while waiting his turn. First, he starts a fight to clear two men from the queue, then steals a ticket from another more seriously injured patient, although eventually manages to lose his place anyway. Frustratedly, he throws his token into the dustbin, only to get his other hand caught in the dustbin.

Act 2: Bean irritates a Queen's Guard with a camera by dressing him up with flowers and things. He trims the Guard's mustache into a Hitler style, and impales his Teddy on the Guard's bayonet. Just before he can take the photo, the charge is called, and the Guard walks away, Teddy and all.

Act 3: Bean prepares for bed but has trouble falling asleep. After trying several methods for getting to sleep, he finally falls asleep by counting sheep with a calculator, and then falls out of bed.

• This was the last episode produced for ITV
• Different theme song performance (this version was later used in "The story of Mr. Bean" documentary opening)

Act 1: Bean goes to Derrick's barber shop for a haircut. Just as he is about to have it cut, the barber has to take a telephone call. While waiting, three other customers come in assuming Mr. Bean is the hairdresser, and he ends up cutting their hair very badly. They later return and blame Derrick for their awful haircuts, while Mr. Bean sneaks off hiding his face under a calendar of Prince Charles.

Act 2: Bean goes to a fair and cheats at the indoor games. First, he plays the Electro wire by switching it off at the plug. Then he plays "Hit the Headmaster" and gets a bit carried away.

Act 3: Bean enters a dog show and uses Teddy as his pet — he wins a huge bone but gets the honey for Teddy, throwing the bone back into the tent and creating mayhem among the kids and the dogs.

Act 4: Bean goes to a railway station. Unfortunately, he has lost his ticket, and decides to sneak past the guards. However, he ends up hiding inside a post office bag destined for Moscow.

The episode was filmed in 1995 and was included as an extra on the VHS and DVD releases but was not originally aired on UK television until 25 August 2006, when it was shown on satellite and cable channels Nickelodeon UK and Paramount Comedy 2, but remains the only full-length Mr Bean episode not to air on UK terrestrial television.