E: 14/03 Win Hippies DVD

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Following the huge critical and public success of Father Ted, acclaimed sit-com writer Arthur Mathews turned his comic attentions away from the surreal peculiarities of the Irish priesthood to focus on the equally surreal idiosyncrasies of the late 1960s counter culture in Hippies.


Overlooked by many during its original BBC2 broadcast, the little-seen Hippies is now finally making its much-welcomed debut on DVD, featuring all six episodes of the series complete with audio commentaries for each episode by co-writer and co-creator Arthur Mathews. Also included as an extra is a rare clip of the infamous "hippy invasion" during an edition of the David Frost Show in 1970 by left-wing American social activist Jerry Rubin and his supporters.


Starring Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz; Shaun Of The Dead), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Stardust; Green Wing) and Sally Phillips (Green Wing; Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason), and set in and around a Notting Hill commune just as a new decade is about to dawn, Hippies pokes affectionate fun at the everyday lives of the editorial staff of the ambitious but laughably ineffective underground magazine, Mouth.

Pegg stars as Mouth magazine editor, Ray Purbbs, a passionate and earnest idealist desperately wanting to become an anti-establishment hero but who struggles to find anything to be reactionary about. Ray's mission to change the world is further hindered by his co-contributors to Mouth, girlfriend Jill (Phillips), reluctant co-conspirator Alex (Rhind-Tutt) and the permanently spaced-out Hugo (Darren Boyd).

To check out a clip from Hippies, click here.

Hippies will be released on DVD (£12.99) by Fremantle Home Entertainment on March 10. We've got five copies to give away


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