Overview

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.

Created by Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews

Network

• BBC Two

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Simon Pegg

  Ray Purbbs

  6 eps

• 

  Julian Rhind-Tutt

  Alex Picton-Dinch

  6 eps

• 

  Sally Phillips

  Jill Sprint

  6 eps

• 

  Darren Boyd

  Hugo Yemp

  6 eps

Themes

• hippie
• magazine
• miniseries
• counter-culture
• sitcom
• 1960s

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