Hippies (1999)

Name: Hippies
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7
Cast: Simon Pegg, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, Darren Boyd

Comedy

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.

IMDb rating: 7.0 (499 votes)
Episode average: 6.8 -0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1999)

6.78 avg 6 episodes 6.2 → 6.7

Mid-peak

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Protesting Hippies	6.2	26
2	Hairy Hippies	6.7	25
3	Sexy Hippies	7.7	26
4	Hippy Dippy Hippies	6.9	22
5	Muddy Hippies	6.5	22
6	Disgusting Hippies	6.7	21