'The Hippie Temptation' (1967) CBS TV special

A terrifically tittersome time capsule investigating the enthusiastically drug-positive, flaccidly flower powering hippie/Haight Ashbury movement of the late 1960s. The generously LCD-laced languor herein frequently makes for a splendidly far out viewing experience! The notable reputation of this entertainingly sensationalistic, iconically psychedelicized CBS TV special is richly deserved, as much of the groovier, brightly beaded material immortalized by this CBS TV special remains psychotronically choice! 

The Hippie Temptation is a veritable goldmine for funky vintage footage freaks, this heady, sombre-voiced expose of grubbily freaked out, fuzzy headed acid heads is a timelessly time travelling trip. There are myriad groovy quotes from stiffly authoritative doctors, and frustratingly dull, inarticulate stoners alike. There's one particularly choice moment when a polite, middle-class acid casualty calmly explains how he recently experienced the divine luminescence of god in all things while on a trip, and his palpably uptight mother immediately scolded him by saying without a hint of irony that "He'll only see god when he's dead!!??" WTF!!! Events conclude amicably with some turned on live footage of the grateful dead playing to an enthusiastically frugging open-air crowd.

“Turning away from challenge into dreamy narcosis!”

“Acid ate my chromosomes, man!”