Hippies

Hippies was a six-part British television comedy series broadcast from 12 November to 17 December 1999. It was created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, the writing partnership most famous for Father Ted, but the scripts were written by Mathews alone. It starred Simon Pegg, Sally Phillips, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Darren Boyd. Hippies is set in 1969 in 'Swinging London' and is set around Ray Purbbs (Pegg), who is the editor of a counterculture m... more

Hippies was a six-part British television comedy series broadcast from 12 November to 17 December 1999. It was created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, the writing partnership most famous for Father Ted, but the scripts were written by Mathews alone. It starred Simon Pegg, Sally Phillips, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Darren Boyd. Hippies is set in 1969 in 'Swinging London' and is set around Ray Purbbs (Pegg), who is the editor of a counterculture magazine called Mouth (a parody of Oz, International Times, Frendz and other underground magazines of the time), which he produces in his flat in Notting Hill Gate. He is aided by Alex Picton-Dinch (Rhind-Tutt), Hugo Yemp (Boyd) and Jill Sprint (Phillips), Sprint is also Purbbs' girlfriend, or he thinks she is his girlfriend. The series delved into late 1960s culture and involved the characters in various ridiculous situations in this setting. The series was Mathews and Linehan's immediate follow up to the hugely popular and highly successful,... less