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TV series / 1999
Hippies
Episode directors
Martin Dennis
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.
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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.
Cast
Simon PeggRay Purbbs
Julian Rhind-TuttAlex Picton-Dinch
Sally PhillipsJill Sprint
Darren BoydHugo Yemp
John BenfieldDad
Geraldine McNultyMum
Simon KunzProfessor Rickman
Peter SerafinowiczRobin · Narrator (voice)
Rolf SaxonJerry Gurvitz
Kevin EldonPeter Mountstewart
Paul ShearerDesmond Kemp
Nigel WilliamsSalesman
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Peter YappSalesman
John BardonSecurity Guard
John LabanowskiPoliceman
Dora BryanDame Nelly Fletcher
Maggie HollandAuntie Peg
Camilla BullusVicky
Eleanor BronGloria
Clara BellarClaudette
Peter CooneyDr Terry Phelps
Arthur MathewsIrish Folk Singer
James WoolleyProfessor Curry
Roger WatkinsPoliceman Phil
Pearce QuigleyPoliceman Eric
John QuayleMr Wilcox
Tony XuProfessor Yang
Dave LambArt Ledger
Iain MitchellSimon Goblatt
Peter HowellJudge
Ben RidgewayAdrian
Alex DawsonCyril
Roland OliverUsher
James DohertyFilm Director (uncredited)
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