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  • BBC Two

Hippies

  • 1999
  • Ended
  • Comedy
  • ~30m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 7.3/10

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.

Latest: Miniseries · 1999

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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.

  1. E1. Protesting Hippies

    Nov 12, 1999 · 30m

    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.

  2. E2. Hairy Hippies

    Nov 19, 1999 · 30m

    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.

  3. E3. Sexy Hippies

    Nov 26, 1999 · 30m

    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.

  4. E4. Hippy Dippy Hippies

    Dec 3, 1999 · 30m

    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.

  5. E5. Muddy Hippies

    Dec 10, 1999 · 30m

    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.

  6. E6. Disgusting Hippies

    Dec 17, 1999 · 30m

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

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