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COLLECTION · Series · 1999

Hippies

Hippies is a 1999 BBC Two comedy miniseries created by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, and written by Mathews. The six-episode series stars Simon Pegg, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, and Darren Boyd as four wannabe hippies in 1969 swinging London, who run a counterculture magazine and strive to be as trendy as society will allow... even if they fail at every turn.

Source: TMDB
* 7.3 (13)ComedyUnited Kingdom
Creators
Graham Linehan · Arthur Mathews
Countries
United Kingdom
Studios
BBC Two · TalkBack Productions
Runtime
30 min/ep
Release
12/11/1999
Score
7.3 / 10 (13)
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Seasons and episodes
Miniseries
6 episodes · 1999

Four wannabe hippies in 1969 swinging London run a counterculture magazine and strive to be as trendy as society will allow... even if they fail at every turn.

Protesting Hippies
Episode 1. Protesting Hippies
1999-11-12 · 30 min

Jerry Gurvitz, self-styled 'Biggest Freak in the World', visits from Los Angeles. Eager to impress, Ray puts on a protest. Jerry takes a fancy to Ray's girlfriend and then finds an unattended bag of drugs.

Hairy Hippies
Episode 2. Hairy Hippies
1999-11-19 · 30 min

Ray and Alex grow beards; so does Jill...Ray is also putting on a new age-themed play but there are tensions in the cast with Ray's directing performance.

Sexy Hippies
Episode 3. Sexy Hippies
1999-11-26 · 30 min

Free Love — Ray wants it, Alex is getting it, Jill is withholding it, and Hugo is banned from thinking about a specific part of it. Everyone else is just so liberated; even Alex's mother.

Hippy Dippy Hippies
Episode 4. Hippy Dippy Hippies
1999-12-03 · 30 min

The hippies have a whole print run stolen so they call the police; who they have just been really rude about. Jill is invited to sketch Rickman in a very natural pose.

Muddy Hippies
Episode 5. Muddy Hippies
1999-12-10 · 30 min

The hippies attend a typical summer pop festival in a cold, wet, muddy field in the rain with terrible toilets. Ray unwisely purchases a car.

Disgusting Hippies
Episode 6. Disgusting Hippies
1999-12-17 · 30 min

Ray rashly allows two schoolboys to write and edit an issue and quickly finds himself in court on a charge of obscenity.

Cast by season
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg
Ray Purbbs
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Alex Picton-Dinch
Sally Phillips
Sally Phillips
Jill Sprint
Darren Boyd
Darren Boyd
Hugo Yemp
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Keywords
hippiemagazineminiseriescounter-culturesitcom1960s
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