Mr. Bean: The Animated Series

*Mr. Bean: The Animated Series*
Mr. Bean: The Animated Series
	Title card for the first series
Genre	Animated series; Comedy
Created by	Rowan Atkinson
Based on	Mr. Bean; by Rowan Atkinson; and Richard Curtis;
Directed by	Tim Fehrenbach (series 2); Dave Osborne (series 3-4); Filippo Cigognini (series 4);
Voices of	Rowan Atkinson; Sally Grace; Matilda Ziegler;
Composers	Howard Goodall; John Greswell ("Bean Hypnotised")
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	169 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Rowan Atkinson; Katherine Senior (series 3); Peter Bennett-Jones (series 1-2); Christopher Skala (series 2); Claudia Lloyd (series 2); Tom Beattie (series 4);
Producers	Jill Thomas (series 1); Claudia Lloyd (series 1); Tom Beattie (series 2-3); Christopher Skala (series 3); Arnold Widdowson (series 4);
Editors	Mark Edwards (series 1); Thomas Ernst (series 1); Zsolt Iván Varga (series 1); Zoltán Varga H.S.E. (series 1); Ivan Varga (series 1); Graham Silcock (series 2-3); Luke Robinson (series 2); Adam Dymond (series 4);
Running time	11 minutes (episodes); 3 minutes (special)
Production companies	Tiger Aspect Productions (series 1–3); Richard Purdum Productions (series 1); Tiger Aspect Kids & Family (series 4);
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	2 March 2002 –; 30 August 2003
Network	CITV
Release	5 October –; 1 November 2004
Release	16 February 2015 –; 8 October 2019
Network	ITVX, Boomerang
Release	1 May 2025 –; present
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Mr. Bean: The Animated Series is a British animated sitcom produced by Tiger Aspect Productions in association with Richard Purdum Productions and Varga Holdings (for the first series). Based on the live-action television sitcom of the same title created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, the sitcom centres on Mr. Bean (Atkinson), Teddy, Irma Gobb (Matilda Ziegler), the Reliant Regal's mysterious driver, Mrs. Julia Wicket (Sally Grace) and her cat Scrapper. In February 2001, the series was officially announced, with it premiering shortly afterwards.

Debuting on 2 March 2002 and originally ending on 1 November 2004, the first series, featuring 52 episodes in total, was originally broadcast on ITV in a Saturday night slot. In October 2004, the sitcom left the Saturday night slot and was instead broadcast daily on CITV due to the show's popularity with younger audiences.

In July 2013, Studio-43 were brought to the light of Tiger-Aspect for the idea of a new animated series so that they could animate the series, but it wasn't until January 2014 that CITV publicly announced that a new animated series would be made, with Rowan Atkinson once again providing his voice for the role. 52 new episodes began airing on CITV.

Tiger Aspect served up for the third series, began airing on CITV in the UK, and across international markets on Boomerang and other Turner Kids channels in select markets.

In 2024, it was announced that the series has been commissioned for a fourth run, produced by Tiger Aspect Kids & Family, in partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery and ITVX, through deals agreed by Banijay Rights.