Mr. Bean Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean Format Physical Comedy Created by Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton Starring Rowan Atkinson Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of episodes 14 (List of episodes) Production Running time 30
minutes Broadcast Original channel ITV Picture format 4:3, 16:9
Original run January 1, 1990 - October 31, 1995 External links IMDb profile TV.com summary Mr. Bean is a British comedy television series of 14 half-hour episodes starring Rowan Atkinson as the eponymous title character. It was written by Rowan Atkinson, Robin Driscoll, Richard
Curtis and Ben Elton. The self-titled first episode was broadcast on 1
January 1990, with the final episode, "Goodnight, Mr. Bean", on 31
October 1995. The series followed the exploits of Mr. Bean, described
by Atkinson as "a child in a grown man's body", in solving various
problems presented by everyday tasks and often causing disruption in
the process.
During its five year run the series gained large UK
audience figures, including 18.74 million for the 1992 episode "The
Trouble With Mr Bean", and was the recipient
of a number of international awards, including the Rose d'Or. The show
has been sold in over 200 territories worldwide, and has inspired two
feature films and an animated cartoon spin-off
The title acharcter, played by Atkinson,
is a slow-witted, sometimes ingenious, and generally likeable buffon
who brings various unusual schemes and connivances to everyday tasks.
He lives alone in his small flat in Highbury, North
London, and is almost always seen in his trademark tweed jacket and
skinny red tie. Mr. Bean rarely speaks, and when he does it is
generally only a few mumbled words. His first name (he names himself
"Bean" to others) and profession, if any, are never mentioned, though
he has been shown in the first episode to have a strong knowledge of
trigonometry. (In the first film adaptation, on his passport "Mr."
appears under the "first name" field and he is shown employed as a
guard at London's National Gallery. In Mr Bean's Holiday, "Rowan" is
seen on his passport name field. In a Blind Date parody, when asked of
his first name, he responds "Mr.") Mr. Bean often seems unaware of
basic aspects of the way the world works, and the programme usually
features his attempts at what would normally be considered simple
tasks, such as going swimming, redecorating or taking an exam. The
humour largely comes from his original (and often absurd) solutions to
any problems and his total disregard for others when solving them, his
pettiness, and occasional malevolence.
Mr. Bean (Rowan Sebastian Atkinson)
with His Wife
(Sunetra Sasatry)
Birth Date/Place: January,09 1955 In Newcastle-upon-Tyne,UK.
Son : Benjamin Atkinson
Daughter: Lily Atkinson
with His Wife
(Sunetra Sasatry)
Birth Date/Place: January,09 1955 In Newcastle-upon-Tyne,UK.
Son : Benjamin Atkinson
Daughter: Lily Atkinson
At the beginning of episode
two onwards, Mr. Bean falls from the sky in a beam of light,
accompanied by a choir singing Ecce homo qui est faba - Behold the man
who is a bean. These opening sequences were initially in black and white
in episodes 2 and 3, and were intended by the producers to show his
status as an "ordinary man cast into the spotlight". However, later
episodes showed Mr. Bean dropping from the night sky in a deserted
London street, against the backdrop of St. Paul's Cathedral; later, in
the animated series, he was shown to be an alien. Atkinson himself has acknowledged that Bean "has a slightly alien aspect to him"
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