The New People — Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Episode synopsis

""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)

About 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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E2Panic in the Sand
• E3The Tin God
• E4Murderer!
• E5Comes the Revolution, We Use the Girls' Shower
• E6Lifeline
• E7Marriage-Bomano Style
• E8Is This Any Way to Run an Island?
• E9The Dark Side of the Island
• E10A Bride in Basic Black (1): The Courtship
• E11A Bride in Basic Black (2): The Surrender
• E12The Pied Piper of Pot
• E13Speed Kills