Yes, you should assume this contains spoilers as I want to talk about specific episodes! I was looking over the episode list and it jogged my memory. I remember two episodes in particular. One I believe is the episode entitled Speed Kills. One of the boys finds gasoline and fixes up a sort of race car to drive around the island as fast as possible. There's a real discussion about what he's doing...i.e. should he be allowed? Does the group have a right to make rules for everyone? At the end, someone gets hit by the car and badly hurt. Of course, there is no doctor among the survivors, so suddenly the college student "fun" becomes a serious issue as the group must face up to reality and whether they need a pseudo "government" or let anarchy rule.The other episode I remember involved a "survivor" type guy who decides he needs a woman, so he just kidnaps one of the girls and holds her prisoner. His idea is they are going to be mates. No one's coming to rescue them, so they will have to live out their lives on the island. He wants a woman and she needs a man to take care of her, so he can't understand why she's not cooperating. It's awhile before anyone realises she's missing and when they do, only one guy is willing to go after her. This was 1969, remember? Women's Rights were a huge issue. He rescues the girl, but again, is there need for societal punishment for the crime? Anyone remember any more episodes? I noticed the parallel to LOST the first time I heard about that show, so I'm glad others see it as well. I think the person who said they thought the show was called The Young Americans might be confusing it with The Young Rebels (1970), another short-lived Spelling show which actually starred a young Louis Gossett Jr. as one of a group of young patriots during the American Revolution.

I really enjoyed this when it was on -- two hip and interesting shows (it was paired with David Steinberg's show right afterward) that my parents didn't really get, cute young actors and both highly topical (well, Steinberg was more satirical). Or as topical as you got in 1969.Yes (as noted above) Vietnam was on all our minds. This show struggled with issues we were confronting, at a level a young person like me could relate to. Frankly it taught skepticism of war but also cynicism about the human condition as the young idealists struggled again and again with the same dilemmas. Kind of a Lord of the Flies with less murder and more food. And girls.I also remember being impressed with the innovative (and of course completely failed) time format, which I've never seen tried again.

I really loved this series when it was on from 1969 - 1970. I was a teenager at the time and it really appealed to most of my friends back then.Interesting concept for a group of young college age kids on a plane that crashes in the Pacific. They are survivors and try their best to form an organized society when they realize they might not be rescued. They ultimately realized what life is like as an adult. I have hunted for this for a long time, and I had forgotten the title. It's been over 30 years and the theme of this short lived series still stuck in my mind. I finally remembered Tiffany Bollings name as one of the stars, so I was able to find the title finally. Rod Serling and others involved with this show could have done so much more with it. I recommend watching it, if it is ever brought back into syndication as old shows sometimes are. I sadly doubt that anyone would put a series this short onto video or DVD, but I'd watch it again if they did.

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.