<P> The story in the book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but this is never explicitly stated in the book . </P> <P> A film adaptation was produced in 1983, and a little - known short - lived television series appeared in 1990, picking up where the movie left off . A stage adaptation was written by Christopher Sergel and published in 1990 . </P> <P> Ponyboy Curtis, a teenaged member of a loose gang of "greasers", is leaving a movie theater when he is jumped by "Socs", the greasers' rival gang . Several greasers, including Ponyboy's two older brothers--the paternal Darry and the popular Sodapop--come to his rescue . The next night, Ponyboy and two greaser friends, the hardened Dally and the quiet Johnny, meet Cherry and Marcia, a pair of Soc girls, at a drive - in movie theater . Cherry spurns Dally's rude advances, but Ponyboy ends up speaking civilly with Cherry, emotionally connecting with a Soc for the first time in his life . </P> <P> Afterward, Ponyboy, Johnny, and their wisecracking friend Two - Bit begin to walk Cherry and Marcia home, when they are stopped by Cherry's boyfriend Bob, who badly beat up Johnny a few months back . Bob and the greasers exchange taunts, but Cherry prevents a fight by willingly leaving with Bob . Ponyboy gets home at two in the morning, enraging Darry until he suddenly slaps Ponyboy . Pony runs out the door and meets up with Johnny, expressing his anger at Darry's increasing coldness in the wake of his parents' recent deaths in a car crash . </P>

What are the names of the gangs in the outsiders