Counterculture of the 1960s of Timothy Leary to "Turn on, tune in, drop out", hoped to change society by dropping out of it. Looking back on his own life (as a Harvard professor) prior to 1960, Leary interpreted it to have been that of "an anonymous institutional employee who drove to work each morning in a long line of commuter cars and drove home each night and drank martinis ... like several million middle-class, liberal, intellectual robots." As members of the hippie movement grew older and moderated their lives and their views, and especially after US involvement in the Vietnam War ended in the
Drop the Dead Donkey most previously had only been in single episodes. The ending contradicted the already thoroughly contradicted novel "Drop The Dead Donkey 2000" by Hamilton and Alistair Beaton (1994) , in which the company is almost destroyed in a bomb blast at the turn of the millennium. Five VHS videos, each featuring three selected episodes of "Drop The Dead Donkey", were released during the 1990s. There was also a sixth, called "The Writer's Choice", which featured six episodes plus 50 classic moments chosen by the writers Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume