![]() ![]() Her upbringing was strict, her childhood lonely. Her father was a corporate lawyer, her mother an artist. Peggy Lipton was born into a well-to-do upper middle-class family of Russian-Jewish ancestry. Along with Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), I Spy (1965), Mannix (1967) and Mission: Impossible (1966), it was also among the first shows to feature an interracial cast. As a police drama with a difference, Mod Squad (1968) was a counterculture trend-setter which addressed previously neglected (or taboo) issues such as the Vietnam War, child abuse, police brutality, racism and drugs. With her expressive brown eyes and trademark long blonde hair, sylphlike Peggy Lipton was one third of a streetwise urban trio who - at least to baby boomers in the 60s - represented a more anti-authoritarian point of view. To millions of TV viewers she became familiar as the reformed juvenile delinquent, turned undercover cop, Julie Barnes. ![]() She was a groovy and sexy icon of the late hippie era. ![]()
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