The New People(1969)
Drama
First Air Date: 1969-09-22
Average Runtime: 45m
Rating: 6.2
Votes: 5
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 17
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.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 17E01
Pilot
Air Date: 1969-09-22
""Richard Kiley guest stars in a Rod Serling story that sets the scene for this series. A planeload of American exch...
E02
Panic in the Sand
Air Date: 1969-09-29
""The outbreak of a mysterious epidemic raises a point in medical ethics: who will be guinea pigs for a chemical that...
E03
The Tin God
Air Date: 1969-10-06
""[A] new look at the old issue of the rebel vs. the establishment. When Bob Lee injures a girl with his car, a comm...
E04
Murderer!
Air Date: 1969-10-13
""The specter of murder haunts the New People when a youth is found dead at the foot of a cliff. Not that they lack ...
E05
Comes the Revolution, We Use the Girls' Shower
Air Date: 1969-10-20
""Always a rebel, Stanley wages a slightly ludicrous campaign against building an aqueduct for the girls' showers. H...
E06
Lifeline
Air Date: 1969-10-27
""Several youths decide to leave the island by raft. A near-suicidal scheme to start with, the plan is further endan...
E07
Marriage-Bomano Style
Air Date: 1969-11-03
""Van Heflin's daughter Kate plays her first major role in ""Marriage -- Romano [sic] Style."" Cara, a teen-ager rea...
E08
Is This Any Way to Run an Island?
Air Date: 1969-11-10
""Even in a society without rules, problems arise when everyone ""does his own thing."" The beach boys, for example,...
E09
The Dark Side of the Island
Air Date: 1969-11-17
""The discovery of a shallow grave gives rise to fears that someone -- or something -- may inhabit the unexplored sid...
E10
A Bride in Basic Black (1): The Courtship
Air Date: 1969-11-24
""A two-part story begins with ""A Bride in Basic Black: The Courtship."" Susan, frightened by Ben Geary's insistenc...
E11
A Bride in Basic Black (2): The Surrender
Air Date: 1969-12-01
""A two-part story concludes with ""A Bride in Basic Black: The Surrender."" Having failed to get a law protecting w...
E12
The Pied Piper of Pot
Air Date: 1969-12-08
""Wash takes issue with a self-proclaimed mystic who proposes to show the way to bliss through meditation and marijua...
E13
Speed Kills
Air Date: 1969-12-15
""Mental illness -- and the problems of coping with it -- loom with dramatic suddenness when a normally happy-go-luck...
E14
The Guns of Bomano
Air Date: 1969-12-22
""The election of an armed peace officer brings to the island the old issues of law and order, gun control and the ro...
E15
The Prisoner of Bomano
Air Date: 1969-12-29
""Wash's fate is in doubt after he is imprisoned by fellow blacks. They're establishing their own society, and they ...
E16
The Siege of Fern's Castle
Air Date: 1970-01-05
""""The Siege of Fern's Castle"" examines pride and individual rights. The drama centers on Fern, a self-sufficient ...
E17
On the Horizon
Air Date: 1970-01-12
""The appearance of a distant fishing trawler raises the exciting hope of being rescued -- if the New People can agre...
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