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The New People
(1969 — 1970)
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THE NEW PEOPLE
45 Minute Drama
Science Fiction

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
1969 — 1970

BROADCASTER
ABC

SEASONS / EPISODES
1 Seasons / 17 Episodes

A drama series from 1969 in which a plane carrying a group of students crashes on a Pacific island. Luckily the island was previously home to a nuclear test programme and has all the comforts of home (presumably once destined to be blown up in a test), leaving the students free to establish their own society.

Co-created by Aaron Spelling (Charmed) and Rod Serling (Twilight Zone / Night Gallery), it appears that the programme has partly fallen into obscurity due to its bizarre running length — forty-five minutes.
Original Novels
The New People: They Came from the Sea

They Came from the Sea cover image
by Alex Steele
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Tempo
  • 1969
Back Cover Blurb
THE NEW PEOPLE is the most unusual story of its kind since LORD OF THE FLIES. The time is today — now. But for a group of young castaways on a remote island in the South Pacific, it suddenly became the Year One. They are survivors of a plane crash. They now have the chance to start a new life in a brand new world. Can The New People create a better society than the one they left behind?

THE NEW PEOPLE

David Moses plays GENE WASHINGTON. Bitter and hostile, he is unwilling to believe in the promise of a better world — for him

Peter Ratray plays GEORGE POTTER. As a marine, he had killed without hating — now he hates killing.

Zooey Hall plays ROBERT LEE, An angry young man who is trying to escape the guilts of his youth in the south.

Tiffany Bolling plays SUSAN BRADLEY. A senator's daughter, she wants her country to be all that the State Department says it is.