The Hippie Temptation
1967 | 50m | English
Popularity: 0.6 (history)
| Director: | Warren Wallace |
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| CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park. The Hippie Temptation! | |
| Release Date: | Aug 21, 1967 |
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| Director: | Warren Wallace |
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| Keywords | free love, san francisco, california, drug abuse, dystopia, teenage rebellion, generation gap, summer of love, runaway teen, bad trip, 1960s, hippies, trend, barefoot, vd, haight ashbury, uptight squares, free clinic, bummer, condesending, lazy, bandwagon, fad, pearl clutching |
| Production Companies | CBS News Productions |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: May 07, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Harry Reasoner | Uptight Narrator |
| Jerry Garcia | Dirty Hippie |
| Peter Coyote | Digger |
| Bob Weir | |
| Dr. David Smith | Haight Ashbury Free Clinic Doctor |
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| Warren Wallace | Director |
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