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The first episode of the original Mr Bean series starring Rowan Atkinson was first broadcast on 1st January 1990. Since then Mr Bean has become known all over the world. Created by Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll, there were only 14 episodes ever made.




In 2002 the character was transformed into an animated series of 26 half hour episodes. The series remains entirely faithful to the original Mr Bean, with the character still living very much in the real world. Rowan Atkinson provides all of Mr Bean’s vocal sounds. The Animated Serieshas heralded a new era for one of the UK’s most successful characters of all time. Rowan Atkinson worked on the transformation to animated character and acted out every episode in front of the cameras so that the animators could capture the unique movement of Britain’s most infamous character.
Mr Bean is certainly something of a loner but he did have a girlfriend of sorts for a while. The delightfully named Irma Gobb appeared in only three episodes (including Merry Christmas Mr Bean, in which she was determined to extract a marriage proposal from her oddball boyfriend) but returned in the animated series