Where can I find the highest quality episodes of Mr.Bean?

I torrented a few episodes from 1337x, but they are quite compressed/low-quality. Is this the best there is or is there a higher quality version hidden somewhere? It wasn't originally filmed it at such a low quality, right?

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Yes, that is the quality of the original presentation. If anything it looks worse because it has been converted from film to a digital signal, as well as being stretched to be a bit larger than normal. Lmk if you young whippersnappers have any questions about this, I grew up watching this on VHS back in the dark times 👴
- Some was 16mm but probably mostly shot straight to vhs:
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096657/technical/?ref_=tt_spec_sm
  And the bbc was notoriously bad at not losing archival footage of tv shows
  
  I remember the VHS we watched was presented as a compilation of episodes with a new introduction and interludes so my guess is there was some kind of professional reproduction of the episodes themselves
- Bingo. Same goes for pretty much any show from the 90s and beyond that didn't get an HD remaster. It's the same quality with older shows on any legit streaming service.

It probably was broadcast at piss-poor quality, usually 520p
- *576i

Mr. Bean only exists at 576p DVD quality. It probably wasn't shot in high quality film, so no HD releases have been released.

this is a screengrab from the best quality amazon prime has, think it's all the same videotape

Looks better than I expected

Tbh that's actually pretty good for what is probably a VHS rip. They might not even be all that compressed compared to the original.

I don't know much about the series, but I found season 1 of it in 1080p on The RARBG - 17.6GB. That's all I could find in 1080p aside from some specials and the animated series. Possibly AI upscaled, if that matters (can't confirm either way tho)
Edit: Theres a bigger collection on Bitsearch, supposedly the complete series in 1080p. Looks to be about 28 episodes, but the total size is only 5.98GB. Again, not sure if AI upscaled, possibly worse quality than the first one, but more episodes?
- Yes, both are upscaled p2p releases
  
  Sorry for the potentially stupid question but what’s a p2p release? A Torrent?

It was made for British TV in the late 80s maybe.
It wasn't going to be done on 35mm with movie making kit. What you see there is probably the best it's going to be.

I pulled down Tubi’s 720p release and it’s good enough for a videotape based show.
Also, FT Depot on YouTube has nice 4K film scans of the two 20th Century Fox movie shorts of Mr. Bean from the 90s which are also must haves.
- Mr Bean Goes to a Premiere (1991) [4K] [Ftd-0595]
  Mr. Bean Cinema Policy Trailer (1997) [4K] [Ftd-0911]
  Official Mr. Bean channel has playlists with full episodes

I downloaded the whole lot as an AI upscale from the usual public trackers.

I watched a YouTube video several years ago that discussed how Mr. Bean live streams and compilations have flooded YouTube despite the original series not being that long. I can't find the video because the search results are indeed flooded with these

You can find most if not all episodes on YouTube as well. I don't think there are any high quality versions around anyway.

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