• Air date: 05 Jan '03 19 episodes
      The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone was an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show, credited as "based on characters" from Stephen King's 1979 novel of the same name, first aired in 2002, and was produced by Lionsgate Television and CBS Paramount Network Television for the USA Network. The show was originally commissioned for UPN, but the network later dropped the show and it was picked up instead by USA. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for its first five seasons. The sixth and last season was billed as "The season that changes everything" and production was moved to Montreal. The Dead Zone was expected to be renewed for a seventh season, however due to low ratings and high production cost the series was canceled in December 2007, without a proper series finale. Some rumors spread that Syfy would pick up the series after it was...
  • List of Episodes (19)
    • 1. Valley of the Shadow

      05 Jan '03
      The season premiere finds Johnny still shaken by his Armageddon visions and growing increasingly obsessed with Stillson, whom he's secretly investigating. But another mystery draws him back into the public eye: a test of Johnny's powers by an adversary who is as obsessed with him as Johnny is with Stillson.
    • 2. Descent (1)

      12 Jan '03
      As Walt begins to wonder what's between Johnny and his wife Sara, a group of teenagers disappear into an abandoned copper mine that was owned by Johnny's grandfather. Walt brings Johnny in to help with the rescue and Smith soon begins to get visions not only of the teens but of the miners who died in an incident in 1949 brought on by his grandfather's actions. The ghost miners seem to be striking back at Johnny and Walt is seriously injured. The teens are rescued but Johnny gets a vision of Walt
    • 3. Ascent (2)

      19 Jan '03
      Johnny uses his powers to reach into Walt's comatose mind and lead him back to consciousness.
    • 4. The Outsider

      02 Feb '03
      Johnny must stop the release of a new anti-wrinkle cream based on his vision of it causing birth defects in the future.
    • 5. Precipitate

      09 Feb '03
      Johnny must stop a series of bad future visions based on the blood donations he receives from six different donors.
    • 6. Scars

      16 Feb '03
      After learning Stillson's congressional rival, a long-time incumbent is a war veteran with a dark secret. Johnny ponders whether the truth is more important than Stillson's defeat.
    • 7. Misbegotten

      23 Feb '03
      Johnny is kidnapped by three women who take him to a haunted house - each has their own reasons. Penny is romantically obsessed with Johnny and wants to have his baby, Maddy plans on making a "Blair Witch" style Internet event and sell it to Rev. Purdy, and Anita is seemingly obsessed with the mystery of the family who was killed there. While Dana and Sara reluctantly go through the piles of "fan mail" that Johnny receives, Johnny himself unravels the mystery through his visions, and discovers t
    • 8. Cabin Pressure

      02 Mar '03
      Johnny and Rev. Purdy are traveling on a plane when Johnny gets a vision of the plane crashing and eventually determines that the pilot will put the plane into a dive as the engine explodes. He manages to convince the air marshal he's telling the truth but he sees the same vision of destruction compliments of the co-pilot and realizes both men are trying to save the plane. Using his gift Johnny determines the wings are covered with ice due to an instrument malfunction. When the co-pilot is injur
    • 9. The Man Who Never Was

      09 Mar '03
      Isolating himself from a demanding public, Johnny gets visions of himself disappearing after making contact with something belonging to a shut-in, Jeffrey Grissom, brought in by his delivery man. Johnny briefly visits him and Grissom talks about wondering where his old home was, then Johnny returns the next day with information to find out Grissom and any trace of him have completely disappeared. Johnny is determined to follow up when he gets a vision of people removing Grissom and the new famil
    • 10. Dead Men Tell Tales

      16 Mar '03
      Johnny becomes involved with the mob when his visions lead him to help a mobster whom he sees being gunned down.
    • 11. Playing God

      30 Mar '03
      A wild old high school friend, Jason, comes to see Johnny seeking a vision of the future as he will be dying of a heart condition. Johnny sees him receiving a successful heart transplant and gives him the good news, but later gets a vision of Jason's sister Kate being killed in a driving accident and becoming the donor. Johnny later gets a vision of the other driver's license plate while Jason takes a turn for the worse, then sees a vision of him and Kate arguing which leads to her going out and
    • 12. Zion

      06 Apr '03
      Johnny goes the funeral of Bruce's father and somehow gives Bruce visions of what Bruce's life would have been like if he had never met Johnny.
    • 13. The Storm

      06 Jul '03
      In the aftermath of Kate's death, Johnny's friends stage an intervention to shake him out of his guilt, but as Bruce drives him to Purdy's lakeside resort, he senses a storm is brewing. Now Johnny is forced to try to come to terms with his destiny in order to save the people he loves.
    • 14. Plague

      13 Jul '03
      Johnny is troubled by a disturbing vision of a sudden viral epidemic that cuts a swath through the children of his town.
    • 15. Deja Voodoo

      20 Jul '03
    • 16. The Hunt

      27 Jul '03
      Johnny is recruited to help the CIA track down Osama Bin Laden.
    • 17. The Mountain

      03 Aug '03
      Johnny, Walt, Sarah, and JJ get involved in a search for $2 million on a missing plane.
    • 18. The Combination

      10 Aug '03
      Johnny tries to prevent a boxer from dying in the ring.
    • 19. Visions

      17 Aug '03
      Johnny tries to determine who the mysterious hooded man in his visions are and aid him in the present, while determining more about what the future holds for him personally.