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The New People

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  • 1969-1970
  • 1 Season
  • ABC
  • Drama
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A group of young people crash-land on a deserted island that was a never-used atomic bomb test site. With the world thinking that they were all killed, "The New People" set out to form a civilization free from the problems and mistakes that their parents made, a task that soon becomes much more challenging than they had anticipated.

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Tiffany Bolling
Susan Bradley
Zooey Hall
Bob Lee
David Moses
Gene Washington

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Episode 0

Episode #1.0

Mon, Sep 22, 1969

In the pilot episode, a group of American college students is ordered to come home from a trip to Southeast Asia that is plagued by several problems. However, the plane carrying the students back home is caught in a storm and crashes on Bomano Island, which at one time was a proposed nuclear test site. After the one surviving adult dies, the students decide that as long as they are on the island they will form their own society and try to avoid the mistakes the older generation made back home.

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