Post-apocalypse scifi series with two human classes [duplicate]

Question

I remember watching a scifi series when I was growing up - it was either in the late 80s or early 90s that I watched it. These are elements I can recall

1. The world was polluted or contaminated somehow
2. There were humans living in communities of a sort that had a higher level of technology that had cleaner air
3. The humans out in the polluted areas were more Mad Max-like and I think were mutated somehow or other
4. The 2 human elements were not friendly towards each other and there was a fair bit of conflict between them
5. Some of the cast for the humans in the community were more militarized and would go out to try and help people or to do repairs and such
6. I think that the terrain was more desert like for the most case

I don't remember much beyond these aside from the fact that I enjoyed the show. Does anybody recall the name of this show? I think that it was more serious than comedy, but I'm remembering from a child's perspective.

Answer 1

This may have been the pilot for a series that never aired, called "Island City". The show featured a team that lived in the nice, climate-controlled city, yet often went out into the surrounding wasteland to help others and/or police the savages.

From Wikipedia:

In the future, humanity develops a "fountain of youth" drug, but as many people around the world begin to take it, most begin to mutate into a barbaric proto-humanoid state. The few people immune to this side-effect of the drug band together and live in a futuristic city while the mutants live in the vast wasteland outside its gates.

Thanks to the wonders of Youtube, here's the intro.

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The show had some popular 90's actors in it but never took off. It was the answer to a question a while back, but in that case the OP was looking for it because of the color-coded crystals the city-dwellers wore to indicate genetic compatibility.

Answer 2

Could it possibly be Genesis II(1973), Planet Earth(1974) or Strange New World(1975), three different tv pilots based on the same concept by Gene Roddenberry (although he wasn't directly involved in the third attempt).

A man, or group of people who were cryogenicly frozen before a catastrophic world war is found and revived by people from a city or organisation called PAX. These people , who still has access to technology, are trying to return some semblance of order to this post apocalyptic world.

And yes there are mutants.

A lot of the concepts from these pilots later went into the show Andromeda.