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Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

hensroad-1 I loved this show when it was aired in 1969. My Mom didn't allow us to watch it as it was very controversial at that time. I remember the episode in which one girl got pregnant, and then, before I found out what happened, my Mom came downstairs and whooped on me for watching it. She thought it was "filthy". Crazy. It really does have a lot of parallels with Lost. This didn't last, as many good and interesting shows don't. But I would sure love to see it again. It's funny how this one has stuck with me over the years. I agree with many of the other reviewers that this was undertaken as an experiment and was a concept and effort born of the times. What I enjoyed most was the pushing of the envelope of what kinds of social structures are possible in such an isolated environment. I would have liked to see it last longer and explore these ideas even more.

Little-Mikey A group of (young) college students survived a plane crash only to find themselves stranded on a deserted island that was originally slated as a site for a nuclear bomb test that never occurred.On the island is a perfect recreation of a small town, complete with houses, stores and all the comforts of home, 1950s style.The rumor that Rod Serling wrote the story under an assumed alias, is very believable. It has all the marks of THE TWILIGHT ZONE.The survivors, being college students, saw their new environment as the perfect place to PARTY! Then, they realized that they were stranded and as good as it was with all the comforts of home, there was a very good chance that they may be never be rescued. Although they had no fear of being nuked by a government that didn't know that there was anyone living on that island, they realized that this island was picked because it was outside of any established flight paths. Their only hope of being rescued would be if another pilot flying a plane would also fly off course.So they needed to create a society of their own, with their own set of laws.What kind of society would they create? What kind of order would they have? How would they enforce their laws? Although I have a very good memory of prime time TV throughout the middle to late 1960s, my mind sometimes plays tricks on me and although I remember this program right down to the time and the network that aired it, I could've sworn that it was called THE NOW GENERATION and my search for this program landed me in a really interesting web site which included information on a budget album from 1970, COME TOGETHER by a group called THE NOW GENERATION that was supposedly so bad that the album (featuring a very young Jimmy Buffett) has become some sort of collector's item.THE NEW PEOPLE was not a hit and even though it was canceled by popular demand, that doesn't mean it was a bad show, just that it was a tiny contender up against the TV giants of the time like ROWAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN, THE LUCY SHOW and the tale end of GUNSMOKE. On DVD, this show could sell quite well. How about it?

stephenvincent It is ironic that the top show on TV in the early 21st century, "Lost" echos greatly the rarely seen 1969 TV series, "The New People'. Like "Lost", "The New People" concerned the survivors of a plane crash in the pacific. "The New People' however was a reflection of the social issues of the day and in the pilot episode it featured the only adult in Richard Kiley. Kiley did a superb job in the clash of generations and made the pilot episode seem like a 1969 episode of The Twilight Zone.All of the existing episodes of the New People aired only once on US TV and have never been even surfaced on internet tape trading sites. Recently however all of the episodes have been found at the UCLA video library. It would be great, now that "Lost" is such a big hit, to show people....new people, (ahem) what the original plane crash survivor show was like...and issue these episodes as a boxed set....for Christmas....perhaps even track down the original cast for commentary....etc......The New People shouldn't be lost forever.....(ahem)

gmr-4 Rod Serling as "Creator" is deceptive. He was probably in an executive capacity with little "creative" contribution. In other words, they used his august name.If memory serves, this programme did not last a full season, and its 45 minute running time is a mystery. THE NEW PEOPLE was very much a product of its time, inspired much less by LORD OF THE FLIES than MOD SQUAD. It showed. To be honest, however, during the late '60s -- which I remember very well -- more than one middle-aged individual wondered how well all these griping young people could do if they were left to re-shape society. It is a small detail that starting from scratch in an environment red of tooth and claw is not the best way to test a high-falutin' hypothesis. The only "old guy" dies a long and expository death in the first episode, and life, such as it is, begins for the new society. Of course, by 1970 both great powers had high resolution spy satellites, although with non-Pacific targets, and it would be a matter of maybe two or three casualty filled years before things would be put to right. If they ever gave it a thought, that is probably how the "creators" planned to end the series.For some bizarre reason, however, I found the theme attractive. Perhaps as a failed man in his middle-20s, I wanted to be off by myself on a non-desert isle with a nice high mountain at centre from which to watch the Sun go down and the Moon come up.