Hippies (1999–1999)

TV ShowEndedBBC TwoComedy1 season, 6 episodes
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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.

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Season016Episodes1999Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01Hippies S01E01Protesting HippiesNovember 12, 1999—Jerry Gurvitz, self-styled 'Biggest Freak in the World', visits from Los Angeles. Eager to impress, Ray puts on a protest. Jerry takes a fan
  2. S01E02Hippies S01E02Hairy HippiesNovember 19, 1999—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 directin
  3. S01E03Hippies S01E03Sexy HippiesNovember 26, 1999—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
  4. S01E04Hippies S01E04Hippy Dippy HippiesDecember 3, 1999—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 Rick
  5. S01E05Hippies S01E05Muddy HippiesDecember 10, 1999—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. S01E06Hippies S01E06Disgusting HippiesDecember 17, 1999—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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Simon PeggSimon PeggRay PurbbsJulian Rhind-TuttJulian Rhind-TuttAlex Picton-DinchSally PhillipsSally PhillipsJill SprintDarren BoydDarren BoydHugo Yemp

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