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.
CreatorsGraham Linehan, Arthur Mathews
Protesting Hippies
Nov 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 fancy to Ray's girlfriend and then finds an unattended bag of drugs.
Hairy Hippies
Nov 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 directing performance.
Sexy Hippies
Nov 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 else is just so liberated; even Alex's mother.
Hippy Dippy Hippies
Dec 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 Rickman in a very natural pose.
Muddy Hippies
Dec 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.
Disgusting Hippies
Dec 17, 1999
Ray rashly allows two schoolboys to write and edit an issue and quickly finds himself in court on a charge of obscenity.
