The New People
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.
Ep 1Pilot
""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 an atomic test site, the sanctuary offers a completely provisioned village. The survivors, a microcosm of their generation—white and black militants, leftists and rightists, glue sniffers and middle-of-the-roaders—must now suit their actions to their ideas and create a society of their own."" (TV Guide, September 22, 1969)
Panic in the Sand
""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, 1969)
The Tin God
""[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 Lee has spent a lifetime not doing the things required of him."" (TV Guide, October 6, 1969)
Murderer!
""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. But how should they handle the tragedy?"" (TV Guide, October 13, 1969)
Comes the Revolution, We Use the Girls' Shower
""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 virtual assault on the spirit of unfettered man."" (TV Guide, October 20, 1969)
Lifeline
""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 Guide, October 27, 1969)
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