Hippies - Season 1 - Eps 6: Disgusting Hippies

1999-12-1730 min⭐ 7.2/10

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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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: Unknown

Synopsis

Swinging London, 1969. From his flat in Notting Hill Gate, Ray Purbbs edits an 'underground' (that is, counterculture) magazine, Mouth, assisted by his fellow hippies Alex, Jill and Hugo. Ray is passionate about protest, ludicrously enthusiastic about every hip trend and convinced he is (or could be) a major player in the battle between the Establishment and the alternative society. Alex - though he comes from a wealthy background and seems more interested in golf than altering society - is coolness personified, a man so laid-back he seems to exist outside of reality. Jill embraces all the new-found liberty afforded her gender and claims to espouse free love, though this attitude doesn't stretch to her 'boyfriend', Ray, long been deprived of her carnal interest. Hugo is spectacularly vague, almost brilliant in his obliqueness. Led by Ray, the quartet jump on every trendy bandwagon and comprehensively fail to make the slightest bit of difference in all they do. The gang are pretty useless at everything - in fact, they're not even that good at being hippies.

Cast

Julian Rhind-Tutt

Julian Rhind-Tutt

Sally Phillips

Sally Phillips

Jill Sprint

Simon Pegg

Simon Pegg

Ray Purbbs

Darren Boyd

Darren Boyd

Geraldine McNulty

Geraldine McNulty

John Benfield

John Benfield

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