It was first released on VHS as an exclusive direct-to-video episode in 1995, and was not broadcast on television in the United Kingdom until eleven years later, on 13 August 2006.
As the credits roll, we see footage of a ship sailing through a rough sea, a French steam train, and a group of soldiers marching in Red Square, indicating that Bean indeed ended up in Russia.
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".
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[1] and on TV3 in New Zealand in November 2001.[when?].
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.