Are You Being Served? with his script for "Beane's of Boston". Jeremy Lloyd's "Laugh-In" partner, Alan Sues, was cast as Mr. Humphries, a decision Lloyd regretted, saying Sues had been miscast. Other cast included future "Magnum PI" star John Hillerman as Mr. Peacock, Charlotte Rae as Mrs. Slocombe, and Lorna Patterson as Miss Brahms. Ultimately, CBS passed on "Beane's of Boston" and a full series was not produced. An Australian adaptation, also called "Are You Being Served?", ran for two series and sixteen episodes from 1980 to 1981 on Network Ten. It starred John Inman as Mr Humphries, who travels to Australia on loan
Tee Off, Mr. Bean soap using a grater was later reused in an episode of "Mr. Bean: The Animated Series" titled "Spring Clean", while the scene where Mr. Bean went inside the washing machine and is spun around is reused at the end of the episode "Goldfish". Bean drinking the detergent and getting in the drier are usually edited out of reruns on Nickelodeon (UK and Ireland), along with the scene where the car explodes due to the golf ball inside the car's exhaustion pipe. Tee Off, Mr. Bean "Tee Off, Mr. Bean" is the twelfth episode of the British television series "Mr. Bean",