Hair by Mr. Bean of London

Hair by Mr. Bean of London
Season	1
Episode	14
Air date	November 15, 1995 (direct-to-video release) August 2001 (ABC, Australia broadcast) November 2001 (TV3 - New Zealand broadcast) January 2, 2002 (France) Sometime 2005 (RTÉ One - Irish broadcast) August 13, 2006 (ITV broadcast) August 25, 2006 (Nickelodeon UK)
Written by	Robin Driscoll, Rowan Atkinson (episode writers) Richard Curtis (Additional Material writer)
Directed by	John Birkin
Previous	Goodnight Mr. Bean
Next	The Best Bits of Mr. Bean

Hair by Mr. Bean of London is the fourteenth episode of the live-action TV series. This episode was produced in 1995 by ITV It was originally released on VHS as an "unseen" episode on November 15 of that year. it wasn't aired on TV until its ABC Australian broadcast six years later in August 2001.

For all across of 10 English uploads on both the official channel and Classic Mr. Bean channel masses 225 million views on YouTube as of 2025, with the 5th reupload being the highest viewed out of all 10 uploads.

Synopis

At a barbershop, Bean inadvertently holds the fort for the barber when he is distracted by an important phone call; resulting in him giving several customers terrible haircuts. Later, Bean heads to a fête, where he cheats at all the games and enters Teddy into a children's pet show, where his inanimacy allows Bean to pass all the obedience tests with flying colours. After a train journey, Bean accidentally lost his ticket and unsuccessfully sneaks out past the station's guard (Robin Driscoll) inside a mail bag.

Plot

Act One: The barber shop

At a barber shop, Mr. Bean decides to get a haircut like Prince Charles' as seen in a calendar picture. Bean keeps looking down to read a comic book during his haircut, making it difficult for the barber, Derrick, to cut his hair. Suddenly, the phone in Derrick's office rings, so Derrick goes to his office and answers it. While Bean waits for Derrick to return, he pretends to be a barber and gives an imaginary person a haircut. While pretending, a boy, Jamie, and his mother enter the shop. Jamie's mother asks Bean, thinking he is a real barber, to give her son a haircut; Bean agrees to do so. When she leaves the shop to get her purse, Bean gives Jamie a bowl cut, using a bowl on his head as a cutting guide. He then uses an electric hair clipper, which cuts off a small piece of Jamie's hair when he plugs it in, to shave a gap down the middle of Jamie's head. Jamie likes the haircut, which Bean hides with Jamie's cap when his mother returns to the shop to pay Bean. Derrick returns to finish Bean's haircut, but the phone rings again, so he returns to his office to answer it. Bean decides to give two more customers haircuts. Bean trims the second customer's hair while reading his magazine at the same time, resulting in him accidentally cutting off his ponytail. Furthermore, when Bean uses an electric hair clipper during the haircut of the third customer, Roger, his toupée gets stuck to the clipper and comes off his head. Unable to free Roger's toupée, Bean hides it and creates one for him using hair mousse and bits of hair he finds on the floor. Bean then finishes the second customer's haircut and pretends he did not cut off his ponytail by showing him a mirror with a picture of one. After he pays Bean and leaves, Bean finishes Roger's haircut. As Derrick returns to finish Bean's haircut, Roger, who has not yet realised his toupée was replaced, thanks and pays Derrick as he leaves, confusing Derrick. As Derrick follows Roger and calls for him to return to the shop, Jamie and his mother, the latter upset with Derrick because of her son's haircut, return. The second customer, who is also upset with Derrick because of his haircut, also returns. Meanwhile, Bean sneaks past the bickering customers and Derrick, using the picture of Prince Charles on the calendar as a disguise. Roger, who is also upset with Derrick because of his haircut, angrily returns to the shop and greets "Prince Charles". The act ends with Bean leaving the barber shop as all three customers bicker with Derrick, demanding to know where his "assistant" is.

Jamie's awful hair cut

Act Two: The fête

Bean goes to a fête and parks his Mini in a sheep pen after scaring the sheep away by honking at them. He plays a wire loop game and cheats by turning off and unplugging the buzzer alarm. Then, he plays "Hit the Headmaster" (in which George Webb is the headmaster) but gets carried away and starts throwing objects like tinned peas and cereal boxes at the headmaster. He almost throws a chair but is stopped thanks to a nearby teacher.

Act Three: The pet show

Bean manages to enter Teddy into a pet show. The tests are the obedience, don't eat the sausage and cone zig-zag. Teddy wins first place by passing all of the tests with Bean's help. Bean is awarded a huge bone but gets honey for Teddy instead and throws the bone at the crowd, which causes mayhem among the kids and the dogs.

Act Four: The railway station

Mr. Bean gets off a train at London St Pancras railway station. Unfortunately, he accidentally lost his ticket and decided to sneak through the ticket barrier. However, he ends up hiding inside a mailbag to be sent to Moscow. After several failed attempts, he hides inside a mailbag and crawls towards the gate. When the guard leaves as the clock chime sounds, Bean climbs onto the gate, but two members of station staff turn the gate around, at which point Bean crawls off the gate (while celebrating that he has successfully made it through) but ends up falling onto the railway tracks. Two porters put the mailbag (with Bean still trapped inside) onboard a train carrying cargo and mail that is destined for Moscow. During the credits, short clips of a cargo ship sailing over a rough sea (most likely carrying the mail and cargo from the train earlier), a steam train in France, and Russian soldiers marching in Moscow's Red Square (showing that Bean has certainly ended up in Russia).

Cast

• Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean
• Tony Haase as Derrick (barber)
• Colin Wells as the man with a ponytail
• Frederick Treves as the Colonel
• George Webb as the headmaster
• Robin Driscoll as the railway station security guard
• C.J. Allen as Roger
• Susie McKenna as Jamie's mum
• Jamie Yeates as Jamie
• Matthew Ashforde as himself

Production

As per the other episodes, studio sequences were recorded before a live audience at Teddington Studios.

On the door of the railway coach next to the English inscription of "MOSCOW", some mock Cyrillic writing is visible "НПУЛЦА" (npultsa) instead of "МОСКВА". During the end credits, the footage shown of Red Square was taken in the former Soviet Union despite this episode having premiered almost 4 years after its dissolution. Co-writer Robin Driscoll made a cameo appearance as the railway guard—his first credited appearance since "Mr. Bean Goes to Town". The original recording of the choral theme by the Choir of Southwark Cathedral, was used in the opening titles. However, the end credits incorrectly credited it to the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Act 1 inspired the Mr. Bean: The Animated Series episode "Haircut", while Act 2 inspired the Mr. Bean: The Animated Series episode "Scrapper Cleans Up". A train scene inspired by Act 3 was featured in the film Mr. Bean's Holiday.

Alternate Version

Because Mr. Bean contains little to no dialogue, episodes that air on Francophone networks are aired in English with French subtitles. That is not the case with this episode, as it was actually dubbed in French. There are other differences: the "Hit the Headmaster" sequence is completely cut out; different background music is used at the pet show; and none of the stock footage after the train to Moscow closes its doors is used, with the ending credits simply playing over a black screen, and the French voice cast are actually credited as well.

Broadcast

"Hair by Mr. Bean of London" was first released on VHS in 1995 as a video exclusive and until 2006, it was the only episode never to air on any British television network. This episode was broadcast overseas and received its Irish premiere on RTÉ One in 2005—it also aired on ABC in Australia in August 2001 and on TV3 in New Zealand in November 2001.

The episode was first screened on United Kingdom television on 13 August 2006, when it was shown on satellite, pay TV and cable channel Comedy Central Extra (then known as Paramount Comedy 2) and 25 August 2006 on Nickelodeon UK but for some time, it remained the only full-length episode not to air on terrestrial television in the UK. It has since been broadcast on ITV3 and ITV4.

Errors

• The electric clipper Mr. Bean uses does not sound like a real electric clipper.

Trivia

• This is the last episode of the 1990s and the 20th century.
• This is the first episode since "The Trouble with Mr. Bean" and the last in the series in which the choir sings "Finis partis primae".
• The intro used the old Mr. Bean introductory song, by the Choir of Southwark Cathedral, but it was credited to the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford at the end of the episode.
• This episode, along with "The Best Bits of Mr. Bean" are the only two episodes to use the blinking animation variant of the 1993 Tiger Aspect Productions logo.
• This is the second time Mr. Bean loses his train ticket, first is in Mr. Bean Rides Again.

Gallery

• TBA

Videos

Go to here: Hair by Mr. Bean of London/Videos

In Other Languages

Language	Title
Arabic	تصفيف الشعر على يد مستر بين من لندن
Bulgarian	Прически от Мистър Бийн от Лондон
Cantonese	「倫敦Mr. Bean髮型屋」
Dutch	Kapsels door Mr. Bean uit Londen
French	Mr Bean coiffé au poteau
German	Frisuren von Mr. Bean aus London
Hebrew	תסרוקות מאת מר בין מלונדון
Hindi	लंदन के मिस्टर बीन द्वारा हेयरकट
Italian	Capelli di Mr. Bean di Londra
Polish	Fryzury od Pana Beana z Londynu
Portuguese	Cabelos por Mr. Bean de Londres
Russian	Прически от мистера Бина из Лондона
Spanish	Cabello por Mr. Bean de Londres
Swedish	Frisyrer av Mr. Bean från London