Hippies(1999)

Hippies is a 1999 BBC comedy miniseries following four wannabe counterculturists in swinging London, 1969. Simon Pegg, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, and Darren Boyd play ambitious but hapless characters determined to launch their own underground magazine and embrace the hippie lifestyle—only to stumble at every opportunity. Created by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, the six-part series mines comedy from the gap between their bohemian aspirations and their consistent, spectacular failures. A sharp satire of the era's youth culture and the desperate scramble to stay ahead of the trend curve, Hippies captures the absurdity of trying too hard to be authentically cool.