Original title
Hippies
Released
11/12/1999
Origin country
GB
Genre
Comedy
Production companies
TalkBack Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
6
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.
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.
Jerry Gurvitz, the self-styled "Biggest Freak in the World" is visiting London from Los Angeles. Eager to impress, Ray puts on a protest. Jerry takes a fancy to Ray's girlfriend and then Jerry finds an unattended bag of drugs.
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 performance as Director.
Free Love - Ray wants it, Alex is getting it 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.
The Hippies have a whole print run of their magazine stolen so have to call the police; who they have just been really rude about. Jill is invited to sketch Rickman in a very natural pose.
The Hippies attend a typical British summer pop festival in a cold, wet, muddy, field in the rain with terrible toilets. Ray unwisely purchases a car.
Ray rashly allows two schoolboys to write and edit an issue of the magazine and finds himself in court on a charge of obscenity.
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