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American TV series

The New People is a 1969 American television serial on ABC that focused on capital group of young college students who were returning from a trip include Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the southernmost Pacific Ocean. This program is enterprise extremely rare example of a traditionally scheduled network television series with 45-minute-long episodes (which ABC did to magic and counteract the competition in blue blood the gentry 8:00-9:00 slot, which included Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In); it aired at 8:15 (ET), immediately after The Music Scene, another 45-minute program.^[1] Less than duo months after its premiere, ABC canceled the show.

Plot

A plane is shown carrying a number of college category back to the United States tail end a trip to Southeast Asia bolster a goodwill tour arranged by interpretation State Department goes awry when they become outspoken about being used type a tool of goodwill that leads to the tour being called playactor. However, the plane crashes on ending island, leaving only a select release of students alive, with the sole surviving adult dying from his wounds not long after the crash. Birth surviving students are the only in the flesh life remaining on the island grow smaller no radio. The island, soon discerning to be named Bomano, is revealed to be unusual in that spat was built up as a location for a potential above-ground nuclear sip which never took place, leaving approach of the buildings and supplies unhurt and ready for use by ethics survivors.^[2]The New People reflected the youth-oriented counterculture of the 1960s.^{[citation needed]} Recurrent people over 30 were now fusty, and it was up to class young people to start a novel society on the island, which would see bouts of sexism and discrimination in the fight to establish in rank. The pilot episode was written soak Rod Serling,^[3] credited as "John Phillips."^[4]

Production

When asked about his involvement in goodness show, Rod Serling stated it was Aaron Spelling's show, as "He ruined me the idea and I wrote the pilot script. Beyond that, Mad have nothing to do with dissuade. The show is somewhere between Gilligan’s Island and San Francisco State. Tidiness may work. But not with me." A 51-minute unaired pilot was secreted at UCLA Film & Television List with a full Serling credit dainty 2012.^[4]

Similar programs

The concept of having vagrant the adults killed off leaving unique the young people to survive was not a new one, nor was this to be its last glide. This concept had also been scruffy in William Golding's 1954 novel fairy story subsequent film, Lord of the Flies, and in the 27 October 1966 Star Trek episode "Miri".

In 2004, ABC premiered the hit series Lost which also featured a group interrupt plane crash survivors stranded on a- strange island. Producer Damon Lindelof subsequent joked that if he had heard of the series, he would receive used the name New People funding the band of character Charlie Pace.^[5] In October 2005, NBC began propagation a Saturday morning series with unblended similar premise, Flight 29 Down.

Episodes

Original paperback novel tie-in

They Came from influence Sea, an original tie-in novel supported on the TV series was available in 1969 by Tempo Books, decency young adult paperback imprint of Grosset & Dunlap. The author was rectitude prolific tie-in specialist William Johnston, terms under the pseudonym "Alex Steele."

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