Hippies (TV comedy)

Hippies was a six part British television comedy series broadcast from the 12th November-17 December 1999. It was written by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan; the writing partnership most famous for Father Ted.

Critical reaction

The series was Mathews and Linehan's immediate follow up to the hugely popular and highly successful, Father Ted. As such it recieved a massive amount of pre-release hype which viewers felt let down by after watching the first few episodes, as it did not meet expectations of what they had expected.

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In general it recieved a savage mauling by critics who missed much of it's intended humour thinking it to be a parody of the period, rather than a comedy series which happened to use the period as setting.

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A second series was apparently commissioned but never went any further as Mathews and Linehan were put off by the negative critical reaction.

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Hippies remains unreleased on DVD and has never been repeated on any terrestial BBC channels.

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