Hippies - Season 1 - Eps 1: 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.
About Hippies
Title: Hippies
First Air Date: 1999-11-12
Last Air Date: 1999-12-17
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.2/10 (from 12 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 6
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: TalkBack Productions
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Simon Pegg
Ray Purbbs
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Alex Picton-Dinch
Sally Phillips
Jill Sprint
Darren Boyd
Hugo Yemp