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?

erjent I too was a very young 10 at the time. For some reason I always thought the show was called "The Young American's". I remember the plane crash, and their attempt to form a new Utopia. I don't recall individual story lines or the characters, but I also remember it followed David Steinberg's show. I do remember that Three Dog Night played Eli's Coming on that. I would love to see it again, but it would probably be like watching My Three Son's grow up and get real long(shoulder length) hair. Would original copies of this still be archived anywhere? Send an e-mail if available.

popsgone As most have read the plot, the show was both exciting and spenseful. The Young(New) People found out that growing up was not as easy as they believed. I was upset when they cancelled this program. It was cancelled when a young lady became pregnant out of wedlock. Big Mistake back then................

Brian Washington Even though I was only three years old at the time this show came out, for some reason it stuck with me. One reason is the fact that it is one of the few failures in the illustrious career of the master television writer Rod Serling. It also marked one of the few failures for Aaron Spelling, who had just produced the Mod Squad and would later go on to dominate the 1970's with such shows as Charlie's Angels and the Love Boat. Another reason is the concept of the show. The whole concept of this show was that a plane carrying a group of college students on the way back from a trip abroad gets caught in a storm and crashes on a seemingly deserted island. However, this seemingly deserted island was an abandoned nuclear test site, which was completely stocked with enough provisions to keep them alive almost indefinitely. They then go about creating their own society complete with their own rules as they try to survive on the island. This show definitely was a product of its time, the late 1960's, when youth rebellion was was very prevalent. I think that this would have been better if instead of being a weekly series that it should have been either a movie of the week or maybe a mini-series and maybe it would have been remembered better.