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Hippies is a six-part British television comedy series broadcast on BBC 2 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.
Original Release
11/12/1999 on BBC
US Release
04/14/2000
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Simon Pegg | Ray Purbbs |
Julian Rhind-Tutt | Alex Picton-Dinch |
Sally Phillips | Jill Sprint |
Darren Boyd | Hugo Yemp |
John Benfield | Dad |
Geraldine McNulty | Mum |
Simon Kunz | Professor Rickman |
Peter Serafinowicz | Robin / Narrator |
Paul Bigley | Hippy / Hippy Friend |
Moses Rockman | Hippy in Urinal / Dope Smoking Hippy In Court |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Protesting Hippies | Friday, 12 November 1999 |
2 | Hairy Hippies | Friday, 19 November 1999 |
3 | Sexy Hippies | Friday, 26 November 1999 |
4 | Hippy Dippy Hippies | Friday, 03 December 1999 |
5 | Muddy Hippies | Friday, 10 December 1999 |
6 | Disgusting Hippies | Friday, 17 December 1999 |
Directors
Writers
Creators
Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan
Cast
Name | Character |
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Simon Pegg | Ray Purbbs |
Julian Rhind-Tutt | Alex Picton-Dinch |
Sally Phillips | Jill Sprint |
Darren Boyd | Hugo Yemp |
John Benfield | Dad |
Geraldine McNulty | Mum |
Simon Kunz | Professor Rickman |
Peter Serafinowicz | Robin / Narrator |
Paul Bigley | Hippy / Hippy Friend |
Moses Rockman | Hippy in Urinal / Dope Smoking Hippy In Court |
Eleanor Bron | Gloria |
Dave Lamb | Art Ledger |
Rolf Saxon | Jerry Gurvitz |
John Quayle | Mr Wilcox |
Iain Mitchell | Simon Goblatt |
Kevin Eldon | Peter Mountstewart |
Dora Bryan | Dame Nelly Fletcher |
Clara Bellar | Claudette |
Peter Howell | Judge |
Tony Xu | Professor Yang |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Peter Fincham | Executive Producer |
Jenny Hay | Producer |
Geoffrey Perkins | Producer |