How about Donald “Oddball” Sutherland and his tank crew in Kelly’s Heroes?
They were proto-hippies, though…
Yeah, but even within Star Trek, the leader of the space hipppies (Skip Homeier, the aforementioned bald guy) played a motherfuckin’ Nazi! (“Patterns of Force”).
Whoa, man! I just blew my mind!
They were more beatniks or even proto-beatniks. I just saw Kelly’s Heroes again this week. I love that movie.
I seem to recall Sutherland saying that he was deathly ill while filming that movie. He had a very high fever and doesn’t remember most of it. So he wasn’t so much a proto-beatnik as delirious.
In the same way I’ve been “retired” since my first acting class at age 17. (Skippy, I see you finally realized that you lacked any talent whatsoever. Most of us figured it out sooner.)
Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves.
Wasn’t there an episode of Gomer Pyle where he encountered a small band of hippies? I think one of them was named “Moon Dog” or something like that. I remember they all dropped acid and sang “Blowin In The Wind”.
OK, I may be misremembering the dropping acid part…
Dude, don’t bogart the hash. It helps us all be mellow.
Half the episodes of Hawaii 5-0 had hippies in them, Steve McGarrett knew how to deal with them. Book em.
And they painted the USMC panel van in wild “hippy” colors, thereby winning the best camouflage contest. (I bet this is the last memory I have as age takes away all the important stuff.)
That’s one of the most boring acid parties I’ve ever seen.
Though I have to say it’s not one of the worst portrayals I’ve seen.
Actually, the name Moriarty (as in “Dean Moriarty”) is one of the reasons I thought of Oddball as a Beatnik, rather than a hippie.
Regarding the Gomer Pyle episode: The Colonel thought they were disguised Marines and laughed it all off. Rob Reiner was one of the Hippies. And, as always, Vietnam was never mentioned.
To be honest, I had no clue who Dean Moriarty was and I had to look it up, but yes, that is even more reason to consider them proto-beatniks and not Hippies. I knew/know hippies and I have seen TV hippies. That tank crew was not hippies. 
That reference does make far more sense than the Sherlock Holmes reference I never quite got.
I win.
It’s Otto Preminger’s Skidoo and starring Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Groucho Marx.
Trailer:
Jackie Gleason’s Trip
and Austin Pendleton in a short cameo! I’d advise against dropping Vitamin A in a high security prison, but that’s just me.
Yeah, it’s not even a cameo. He gets a ton of screen time and multiple scenes.
What about Beyond the Valley of the Dolls? I wasn’t there, but man that looked like one groovy scene.
“It’s my happening, baby, and it freaks me out!”
How could a sitcom, in the 1960s, about U.S. Marines, not mention Vietnam?!