Hippies is a six-part British television comedy series broadcast on BBC 2 from 12 November to 17 December 1999.
Hippies is set in 1969 during the 'Swinging Sixties' and follows the misadventures of Ray Purbbs (Pegg), who is the editor of a counterculture magazine called Mouth (a parody of Oz and International Times), which he produces in his flat in Notting Hill Gate.
The series was Mathews and Linehan's immediate follow up to the hugely popular and highly successful Father Ted.
As such it received a significant amount of pre-release hype which viewers felt let down by after watching the first few episodes, as it did not meet their expectations.
[citation needed] A second series was commissioned, but was never made after Mathews was put off by the negative critical reaction.