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The New People is a 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 (improbably) supplies untouched and ready for use by the survivors. The trip to Southeast Asia was a goodwill tour arranged by the State Department showcasing what American youth were like, but it went awry when one of the students disrupted it, feeling that what they were doing was fake and a way to gloss over what was going on in the country and with relations to the Vietnam war.
Original Release
09/22/1969 on ABC
US Release
09/22/1969
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tiffany Bolling | Susan Bradley |
Zooey Hall | Bob Lee |
Peter Ratray | George Potter |
Jill Jaress | Ginny Loomis |
Dennis Olivieri | Stanley Gabriel |
Clive Clerk | Jack |
Elizabeth Berger | Laura |
Dennis Redfield | Rube |
Lee Stanley | Ben Boyer / Steve |
Jim McMullan | Ben Geary |
# | Title | Air Date |
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0 | Episode #1.0 | Monday, 22 September 1969 |
1 | Panic in the Sand | Monday, 29 September 1969 |
2 | The Tin God | Monday, 06 October 1969 |
3 | Murderer! | Monday, 13 October 1969 |
4 | Comes the Revolution, We Use the Girls' Shower | Monday, 20 October 1969 |
5 | Lifeline | Monday, 27 October 1969 |
6 | Marriage - Bomano Style | Monday, 03 November 1969 |
7 | Is This Any Way to Run an Island? | Monday, 10 November 1969 |
8 | The Dark Side of the Island | Monday, 17 November 1969 |
9 | A Bride in Basic Black: the Courtship | Monday, 24 November 1969 |
10 | A Bride in Basic Black: the Surrender | Monday, 01 December 1969 |
11 | The Pied Piper of Pot | Monday, 08 December 1969 |
12 | Speed Kills | Monday, 15 December 1969 |
13 | The Guns of Bomano | Monday, 22 December 1969 |
14 | The Prisoner of Bomano | Monday, 29 December 1969 |
15 | The Siege of Fern's Castle | Monday, 05 January 1970 |
16 | On the Horizon | Monday, 12 January 1970 |
17 | On the Horizon (1) | Monday, 12 January 1970 |
Directors
Charles S. Dubin, Corey Allen, Nicholas Webster, George McCowan, Harry Harvey Jr., William Wiard
Writers
Rod Serling, Harold Gast, E. Arthur Kean, Patrick Rodriguez, Charles McDaniel, Gwen Bagni, Edwin Blum, John W. Bloch, Paul Dubov, Lou Shaw, Edward J. Lakso, Anthony Terpiloff, George Kirgo
Creators
Lawrence Gordon, Aaron Spelling
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tiffany Bolling | Susan Bradley |
Zooey Hall | Bob Lee |
Peter Ratray | George Potter |
Jill Jaress | Ginny Loomis |
Dennis Olivieri | Stanley Gabriel |
Clive Clerk | Jack |
Elizabeth Berger | Laura |
Dennis Redfield | Rube |
Lee Stanley | Ben Boyer / Steve |
Jim McMullan | Ben Geary |
Pegi Boucher | Nedda |
Mark Jenkins | Phil Peters / Phil |
Elaine Princi | Sally |
Renny Roker | Fisher / John |
Philip Chapin | Caffey |
Mary Gail Hobbs | Meg |
Gordon Hoban | Freddie |
Harvey Fisher | Walter |
Steve Cory | Will / Phil |
Dan Spelling | Secondari |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Aaron Spelling | Executive Producer |
Danny Thomas | Executive Producer |
Harold Gast | Producer |
Shelley Hull | Producer |