The New People
(1969)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 1
On the Horizon
Episode 17 - 1-12-1970
""The appearance of a distant fishing trawler raises the exciting hope of being rescued -- if the New People can agree that they want to signal the ship."" (TV Guide, January 12, 1970)
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The Siege of Fern's Castle
Episode 16 - 1-05-1970
""""The Siege of Fern's Castle"" examines pride and individual rights. The drama centers on Fern, a self-sufficient New Englander who's made a home in the wrecked plane -- and refuses to leave when a dangerous mine is beached near-by."" (TV Guide, January 5, 1970)
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The Prisoner of Bomano
Episode 15 - 12-29-1969
""Wash's fate is in doubt after he is imprisoned by fellow blacks. They're establishing their own society, and they don't trust him to ""keep the faith."""" (TV Guide, December 29, 1969)
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The Guns of Bomano
Episode 14 - 12-22-1969
45m
""The election of an armed peace officer brings to the island the old issues of law and order, gun control and the role of police in society."" (TV Guide, December 22, 1969)
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Speed Kills
Episode 13 - 12-15-1969
45m
""Mental illness -- and the problems of coping with it -- loom with dramatic suddenness when a normally happy-go-lucky guy erupts in murderous paranoic outbursts aimed at George."" (TV Guide, December 15, 1969)
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The Pied Piper of Pot
Episode 12 - 12-08-1969
""Wash takes issue with a self-proclaimed mystic who proposes to show the way to bliss through meditation and marijuana."" (TV Guide, December 8, 1969)
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A Bride in Basic Black (2): The Surrender
Episode 11 - 12-01-1969
""A two-part story concludes with ""A Bride in Basic Black: The Surrender."" Having failed to get a law protecting women, Susan fears nothing will stop arrogant Ben Geary from forcing her to live with him."" (TV Guide, December 1, 1969)
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A Bride in Basic Black (1): The Courtship
Episode 10 - 11-24-1969
""A two-part story begins with ""A Bride in Basic Black: The Courtship."" Susan, frightened by Ben Geary's insistence that she live with him, demands a law protecting the women on the island -- a proposal underscored by another girl's accusation of rape against Bob Lee."" (TV Guide, November 24, 1969)
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The Dark Side of the Island
Episode 9 - 11-17-1969
""The discovery of a shallow grave gives rise to fears that someone -- or something -- may inhabit the unexplored side of the island. The fear mushrooms into near hysteria when one of the girls disappears."" (TV Guide, November 17, 1969)
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Is This Any Way to Run an Island?
Episode 8 - 11-10-1969
""Even in a society without rules, problems arise when everyone ""does his own thing."" The beach boys, for example, feel free to take the food -- and George, the others' quasi leader, feels just as free not to get involved."" (TV Guide, November 10, 1969)
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Marriage-Bomano Style
Episode 7 - 11-03-1969
""Van Heflin's daughter Kate plays her first major role in ""Marriage -- Romano [sic] Style."" Cara, a teen-ager reared in church tradition, runs away from an unsanctified marriage, her emotional trauma intensified by the imminent birth of a baby."" (TV Guide, November 3, 1969)
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Lifeline
Episode 6 - 10-27-1969
45m
""Several youths decide to leave the island by raft. A near-suicidal scheme to start with, the plan is further endangered by the inclusion of Christine Miller, a neurotic."" (TV Guide, October 27, 1969)
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Comes the Revolution, We Use the Girls' Shower
Episode 5 - 10-20-1969
""Always a rebel, Stanley wages a slightly ludicrous campaign against building an aqueduct for the girls' showers. He sees the project in terms of an emerging power structure, a virtual assault on the spirit of unfettered man."" (TV Guide, October 20, 1969)
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Murderer!
Episode 4 - 10-13-1969
45m
""The specter of murder haunts the New People when a youth is found dead at the foot of a cliff. Not that they lack a suspect: enigmatic Dan Stoner had both opportunity and motive. But how should they handle the tragedy?"" (TV Guide, October 13, 1969)
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The Tin God
Episode 3 - 10-06-1969
""[A] new look at the old issue of the rebel vs. the establishment. When Bob Lee injures a girl with his car, a committee decrees that he take care of her. On the other hand, Bob Lee has spent a lifetime not doing the things required of him."" (TV Guide, October 6, 1969)
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Panic in the Sand
Episode 2 - 9-29-1969
""The outbreak of a mysterious epidemic raises a point in medical ethics: who will be guinea pigs for a chemical that may cure -- or cause -- the malady?"" (TV Guide, September 29, 1969)
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Pilot
Episode 1 - 9-22-1969
""Richard Kiley guest stars in a Rod Serling story that sets the scene for this series. A planeload of American exchange students crash lands on a Pacific island. Once planned as an atomic test site, the sanctuary offers a completely provisioned village. The survivors, a microcosm of their generation—white and black militants, leftists and rightists, glue sniffers and middle-of-the-roaders—must now suit their actions to their ideas and create a society of their own."" (TV Guide, September 22, 1969)
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