Hippies
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1999
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Ray Purbbs is the editor of a 'radical' magazine. He wants to change the world for the better, but doesn't know how. Stars Simon Pegg, Sally Phillips, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Darren Boyd, Geraldine McNulty and John Benfield
Press clippings
Laugh Lines: from Dad's Army to Hippies
Bruce Dessau's guide to TV comedy: Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews' underrated sitcom Hippies, starring Simon Pegg, could have been fathered by Dad's Army.
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 19th March 2010What a bad trip, man
Hippies failed on every score. The late-Sixties were reduced to a series of lazy buzz words, such as John Lennon and The Pill. Furthermore, the characterisation offered nothing more than an amateur snapshot of some silly and pointless people engaged in an endless round of self-fulfilling prophecy. Worse than this, much worse than this, was that Hippies failed to raise one small smile, which is no small achievement on the part of the writers who brought us Father Ted.
Pete Clark, Evening Standard, 15th November 1999