Hippies

151999•30m•7.4/10

Comedy

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7.4/10(14)

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.

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Production

TalkBack Productions

Language

Status

Ended

First Aired

November 12, 1999

Last Aired

December 17, 1999

Networks

BBC Two

Created By

Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

Protesting Hippies

Air date: 1999-11-12

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

Air date: 1999-11-19

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

Air date: 1999-11-26

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

Air date: 1999-12-03

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.