The New People
The New People
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The New People

5.8 / 10
1969
1 season
17 episodes
Drama

The New People is a short-lived 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a trip in Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the south Pacific Ocean. The crash killed several of the college students, and all but one of the adults, who was badly injured and later died. The surviving students were the only human life remaining on the island. The island was unusual in that it had been built up as a site for a potential above-ground nuclear test which never took place, leaving all of the buildings and supplies untouched and ready for use by the survivors.

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Cast

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  • Pilot

    1.Pilot

    22-09-196945m

    ""Richard Kiley guest stars in a Rod Serling story that sets the scene for this series. A planeload of American exchange students crash lands on a Pacific island. Once planned as...

  • Ep 2

    2.Panic in the Sand

    29-09-196945m

    ""The outbreak of a mysterious epidemic raises a point in medical ethics: who will be guinea pigs for a chemical that may cure -- or cause -- the malady?"" (TV Guide, September 29...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Tin God

    06-10-196945m

    ""[A] new look at the old issue of the rebel vs. the establishment. When Bob Lee injures a girl with his car, a committee decrees that he take care of her. On the other hand, Bob...

  • Ep 4

    4.Murderer!

    13-10-196945m

    ""The specter of murder haunts the New People when a youth is found dead at the foot of a cliff. Not that they lack a suspect: enigmatic Dan Stoner had both opportunity and motive...

  • Ep 5

    5.Comes the Revolution, We Use the Girls' Shower

    20-10-196945m

    ""Always a rebel, Stanley wages a slightly ludicrous campaign against building an aqueduct for the girls' showers. He sees the project in terms of an emerging power structure, a v...

  • Ep 6

    6.Lifeline

    27-10-196945m

    ""Several youths decide to leave the island by raft. A near-suicidal scheme to start with, the plan is further endangered by the inclusion of Christine Miller, a neurotic."" (TV...

  • Marriage-Bomano Style

    7.Marriage-Bomano Style

    03-11-196945m

    ""Van Heflin's daughter Kate plays her first major role in ""Marriage -- Romano [sic] Style."" Cara, a teen-ager reared in church tradition, runs away from an unsanctified marriag...

  • Is This Any Way to Run an Island?

    8.Is This Any Way to Run an Island?

    10-11-196945m

    ""Even in a society without rules, problems arise when everyone ""does his own thing."" The beach boys, for example, feel free to take the food -- and George, the others' quasi le...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Dark Side of the Island

    17-11-196945m

    ""The discovery of a shallow grave gives rise to fears that someone -- or something -- may inhabit the unexplored side of the island. The fear mushrooms into near hysteria when on...

  • Ep 10

    10.A Bride in Basic Black (1): The Courtship

    24-11-196945m

    ""A two-part story begins with ""A Bride in Basic Black: The Courtship."" Susan, frightened by Ben Geary's insistence that she live with him, demands a law protecting the women on...

  • A Bride in Basic Black (2): The Surrender

    11.A Bride in Basic Black (2): The Surrender

    01-12-196945m

    ""A two-part story concludes with ""A Bride in Basic Black: The Surrender."" Having failed to get a law protecting women, Susan fears nothing will stop arrogant Ben Geary from for...

  • The Pied Piper of Pot

    12.The Pied Piper of Pot

    08-12-196945m

    ""Wash takes issue with a self-proclaimed mystic who proposes to show the way to bliss through meditation and marijuana."" (TV Guide, December 8, 1969)

  • Ep 13

    13.Speed Kills

    15-12-196945m

    ""Mental illness -- and the problems of coping with it -- loom with dramatic suddenness when a normally happy-go-lucky guy erupts in murderous paranoic outbursts aimed at George.""...

  • Ep 14

    14.The Guns of Bomano

    22-12-196945m

    ""The election of an armed peace officer brings to the island the old issues of law and order, gun control and the role of police in society."" (TV Guide, December 22, 1969)

  • Ep 15

    15.The Prisoner of Bomano

    29-12-196945m

    ""Wash's fate is in doubt after he is imprisoned by fellow blacks. They're establishing their own society, and they don't trust him to ""keep the faith."""" (TV Guide, December 2...

  • Ep 16

    16.The Siege of Fern's Castle

    05-01-197045m

    """"The Siege of Fern's Castle"" examines pride and individual rights. The drama centers on Fern, a self-sufficient New Englander who's made a home in the wrecked plane -- and ref...

  • On the Horizon

    17.On the Horizon

    12-01-197045m

    ""The appearance of a distant fishing trawler raises the exciting hope of being rescued -- if the New People can agree that they want to signal the ship."" (TV Guide, January 12,...

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