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Hippies

Hippies
★ 7.4/10•1999•30m•15•Comedy
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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.

StatusEnded
Runtime30m
LanguageEN
First Air DateNov 12, 1999

Episodes

Episode 1 - Protesting HippiesE130m

Protesting Hippies

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.

Nov 12, 1999

Episode 2 - Hairy HippiesE230m

Hairy Hippies

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.

Nov 19, 1999

Episode 3 - Sexy HippiesE330m

Sexy Hippies

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.

Nov 26, 1999

Episode 4 - Hippy Dippy HippiesE430m

Hippy Dippy Hippies

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.

Dec 3, 1999

Episode 5 - Muddy HippiesE530m

Muddy Hippies

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.

Dec 10, 1999

Episode 6 - Disgusting HippiesE630m

Disgusting Hippies

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

Dec 17, 1999

Actors

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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