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Dead Zone, The
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi, produced in 2002,
Canada, USA
| IMDB Rating: |
7.70 out of 10 (725 votes) |
Storyline
Johnny Smith had the perfect life. Until he was in coma for six years. When he awoke, he found his fiance married to another man. His son doesn't know who he is. Everything's changed. Including Johnny. One touch, he can see things. Things that have happened. Things that will happen. You should see what he sees.
Season 1 (14 episodes, 0 downloadable)
Johnny continues to assist the skeptical Sheriff Walt Bannerman (Sarah's husband) with his investigation into the mysterious killings. Johnny soon realizes that in saving a potential victim, a new victim has taken the previous victim's place. In discovering that the killer may be closer than anyone thinks, Johnny is torn between wanting Sarah to be in his life again, and not meddling in her marriage and her relationship with her son, who is Johnny's biological son as well.
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Nicole de Boer, David Ogden Stiers, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Rogers, Rick Tae, Bill Mondy, Emily Holmes, Michael St. John Smith, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Kristen Dalton, Beverley Breuer, Fran Gebhard, Tyler Williamson, Janina Dall, Dominic Louis, Daniel Williamson, Janet Saint James, Marke Driesschen |
Johnny's relationship with reporter Dana Bright heats up when he invites over at his house for dinner for the evening so she can get an up-close and personal interview with him, and his sexual hormones put a damper on their impending intimacy forcing him to see his friends 'talk' to him, about their distaste for the ambitious but cynical woman. Johnny also has a vision of one of Dana's abusive boyfriends stalking her and coming to realize that her life may be in danger.
A vision of a devastating meteor striking a remote mountainside leads Johnny into the woods, where he injures himself. He seeks shelter for the night in a mountain cave, where a ghostly apparition of a Native American medicine man appears to him. Johnny is led into a dreamscape to unlock the mysteries of the shaman, who also had the so-called gift of the 'Dead Zone'--seeing into someone's future by a mere touch.
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Len Doncheff, Nicole de Boer, Michelle Harrison, Anthony Michael Hall, Christopher Attadia, Adam Beach, Bill Mondy, Samuel Patrick Chu, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Spencer Achtymichuk, Connor McLean |
A vision leads Johnny to save rowdy teens from a house fire and escalates the media circus over his psychic abilities, and Johnny confines himself to his house. Reverend Purdy pays Johnny a visit and persuades the troubled psychic that it is his destiny to help people with his visions and that he should not run and hide. Sarah becomes more uncomfortable and slightly jealous over Johnny's blossoming romance with Dana Bright, leading her to question her feelings towards him. Meanwhile, Greg Stillson, an ambitious and unscrupulous politician, arrives in town as part of his campaign for the U.S. Congress. Stillson's background story reveals that he will do ANYTHING to get what he wants, including lie, cheat, steal, blackmail, seduce, and possibly murder. Stillson's and Johnny's paths cross when Reverend Purdy joins Stillson's campaign as an advisor. When Johnny shakes Stillson's hand, he has a horrific vision of a nuclear Armageddon.
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Gary Chalk, Anthony Harrison, Nicole de Boer, David Ogden Stiers, Sean Patrick Flanery, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Campbell, Daniel Bacon, Malcolm Stewart, David Petersen, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Joey Aresco, Kristen Dalton, Pamela MacDonald, David Coles, Michaela Mann, Ted Friend, Kendall Saunders, Evan Smith, Rob Bruner, Jim Francis, Sandra Guerard, Spencer Achtymichuk, Anita Adams, Daniel Best, Craig Fraser |
Season 2 (19 episodes, 0 downloadable)
Still shaken by his visions of apparent nuclear devastation associated with Greg Stillson, Johnny grows increasingly obsessed with Stillson, whom he begins investigating secretly. But another mystery draws him back into the public eye: a test of Johnny's powers by a mysterious adversary who is as obsessed with Johnny as Johnny is with Stillson. When Walt forces Johnny into helping investigate the kidnapping of the young son of a wealthy corporate entrepreneur, Johnny is contacted by the kidnapper in a series of taunting mind games his God-fearing adversary forces on him in order to save the kidnapped boy.
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Sean Patrick Flanery, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Mondy, Stephen J.M. Sisk, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Chris Bruno, Angela Moore, John L. Adams, Kristen Dalton, Rob LaBelle, Kendall Saunders, Johanna Olson, Eric Schaeffer, Jim Francis, Spencer Achtymichuk, Eileen Pedde, Nicole de Boer, David Ogden Stiers |
As Walt begins to wonder what's really going between Johnny and his wife Sarah, a group of four teenagers disappear into an abandoned copper mine that was owned by Johnny's grandfather. Walt brings Johnny in to help with the rescue. Soon, Johnny 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 by a falling beam. The teens are rescued, but Johnny gets a vision of Walt's funeral as he is taken away in the ambulance...
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Nicole de Boer, David Ogden Stiers, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Mondy, Shaun Johnston, Chris Bruno, Raugi Yu, Nicki Clyne, Kristen Dalton, Colby Johannson, Lesley Ewen, Bill Switzer, Johanna Olson, Frederick Pleasure II, Angelo Renai, Zook Matthews, Paul Kloegman, Sharmin Mackay |
Walt ends up in a coma after being injured during the mine rescue. Johnny tries to use his powers to reach Walt in his mind and lead him back to consciousness. But while inside Walt's mind, and reliving how he first met Sarah, among other things, Johnny realizes that he is not the only person inside Walt's memories. There is also a mysterious man, who is Walt's father, trying to make him go into the light...
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James Handy, Nicole de Boer, David Ogden Stiers, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Mondy, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Kristen Dalton, Suleka Mathew, Simon Hayama, Johanna Olson, Holly Burke, Spencer Achtymichuk |
Johnny must stop the release of a new anti-wrinkle cream, called Revivatin, based on his vision of it causing birth defects in the future. Johnny is forced to team up with Dana to try to fight the greedy bureaucratic company as well as find a reclusive research analyst named Thomas Berke, who may know the way to detect the product defect before it hits the market in the next few days.
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David Ogden Stiers, Stacy Grant, Anthony Michael Hall, David Julian Hirsh, Patti Allan, Reg Tupper, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Kristen Dalton, Mitra Loraz, Alistair Abell, Nicola Crosbie, Tonjha Richardson, Johanna Olson, Spencer Achtymichuk, Steve Dunbar, Jerry Wasserman, Nicole de Boer |
After getting hit by a car while saving a little boy's life, Johnny gets a blood transfusion of blood from six different donors, in which for the next few weeks he's reluctantly forced to 'see' through the eyes of his donors. When a disturbing future vision shows that one of his donors will die, Johnny and Bruce must try to stop a series of bad events all coinciding at a public square where the death will take place at 3:00 PM.
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Anthony Michael Hall, Patricia Drake, John Tench, Patricia Idlette, John L. Adams, Suleka Mathew, Jacques Lalonde, Jesse Cadotte, Laura Drummond, Brad Kelly, Courtney Kramer, John Shaw, Paul Magel, Jim Bremner, Matthew Visser, Brandon Visser |
As Johnny continues investigating the past of the charismatic, but closeted evil sociopath, Greg Stillson, he confides in Bruce about his vision of the future at the end of Stillson's run for power. After he gets an intimidating visit from Stillson to persuade him to stop investigating him, Johnny decides to back up Stillson's congressional rival, Harrison Fisher, a long-time incumbent. However, a vision shows a dark secret that Fisher has involving his service in the Vietnam War, which leads Johnny to debate with himself whether revealing the truth about Fisher is more important than the unscrupulous Stillson's defeat.
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Nicole de Boer, David Ogden Stiers, Sean Patrick Flanery, Anthony Michael Hall, L. Harvey Gold, Gerald McRaney, Robert Wisden, Kwesi Ameyaw, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Alana Husband, Jim Francis, Sandra Guerard |
While on his way to meet with Reverend Purdy, Johnny is kidnapped by three women who take him to a remote farmhouse reputed to be haunted. Each of them have their own reasons. Penny is romantically obsessed with Johnny and wants to have his baby. Maddy is a documentary film maker who plans on making a "Blair Witch" style Internet event and sell it to Rev. Purdy. Anita is Maddy's lover who is seemingly obsessed with the mystery of the family who was killed there over 20 years ago. Elsewhere, Dana and Sarah reluctantly go through the piles of "fan mail" that Johnny receives to look for clues to his disappearance. While Walt and Bruce try to find him, Johnny himself unravels the mystery through his visions, and discovers that the young son Nicholas who survived is responsible... and that Anita is that boy, dressed as a woman... and still has homicidal tendencies.
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Erin Karpluk, Bill Mondy, Michael St. John Smith, Alicia Coppola, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Kristen Dalton, Beatrice Zeilanger, Peter Nicholas, Lucas Margetson, Tracey Gold, Carlos Joe Costa, Nicole de Boer, David Ogden Stiers, Anthony Michael Hall |
Johnny and Reverend Purdy are traveling on a plane to Washington for a seminars conference 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 though, but closed-minded, air marshal Kelly Park, 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 injured, Johnny is forced to take his seat and direct the pilot with his visions to take the proper steps to save the plane.
Isolating himself from a demanding public, Johnny gets visions of himself disappearing after making contact with something belonging to an elderly shut-in, Jeffrey Grissom, brought in by his delivery man. Johnny briefly visits him and Grissom talks about wondering where his old home was. When Johnny returns the next day with information, 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 family moving in. Johnny gets visions of people going through his own home as well. Unable to convince, Walt, Bruce, or even Sarah about his suspicions, Johnny strikes out on his own and gets close enough to the people following him to get a vision of Grissom in a new home and visits him there. Grissom reveals he is a retired spy kept buried by the U.S. government due to valuable knowledge in his head. The government agents show up to threaten Johnny and make him "vanish" as well.
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Rachel Hayward, Winnie Hung, Nicole de Boer, Adrien Dorval, Anthony Michael Hall, Adam Harrington, D. Harlan Cutshall, Zak Santiago, Jessica Amlee, Chris Bruno, David Thomson, Robert Culp, John L. Adams, Deryl Hayes, Kristen Dalton, Suleka Mathew, Jennifer Kitchen, Amanda Wood, Veronika Hadrava, Chelan McKenzie |
Johnny inadvertently becomes involved with the local mafia when his visions lead him to help mobster Cathan Donnegal, whom he sees being gunned down by a local hood, Mickey. When Donnegal's thugs threaten Johnny to make him help them investigate, the visions lead Johnny to a mobster's mole, Nina, who has connections to the shady Greg Stillson. Stillson is back in town, seeking to buy up the land of an old Indian gambling casino to pocket more money for his political campaign; and his right-hand man/thug, Sonny Elliman, also shares time with the thrill-seeking Nina.
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Niesha Trout, Steven Cree Molison, Jim Francis, Nicole de Boer, Mark Acheson, Sean Patrick Flanery, Anthony Michael Hall, John Mann, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, William MacDonald, Anthony Ulc |
A wild and immature old high school friend, Jason Moore, comes to see Johnny, Sarah, and their friends for a high school reunion. Jason however reveals that he's dying from a terminal heart condition and asks for a vision of his future. 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 soon realizes even if he saves Kate and gets Jason a heart through Purdy's connections, someone else who would have received the heart will die. Johnny tracks down the drunk driver, Patrick Hanchin, and confronts him, but sees that even if Johnny stops him from killing Kate, he'll hit a school bus. Trapped in a web of fate where anything he does will make things worse, Johnny decides on a painful choice to allow fate to run its course.
Johnny goes to the funeral of Bruce's father in Indiana and after touching both Bruce and of his dead father at the same time, somehow gives Bruce a long vision of an alternate reality of what Bruce's life would have been like if he had never met Johnny; Bruce is an church elder at his church with his father Rev. David Lewis, who's alive and in conflict with his son over his choices in life. This leads Bruce to try to find Johnny who has shut himself off from everyone he knows and to Bruce to stumble upon a plot by Johnny to assassinate Greg Stillman before he gets elected president and brings on a nuclear holocaust.
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Mark Rolston, Nicole de Boer, David Ogden Stiers, Sean Patrick Flanery, Anthony Michael Hall, Carrie Fleming, Lorena Gale, Nathaniel DeVeaux, John L. Adams, Judith Maxie, Louis Gossett Jr., Dee Jay Jackson, Carlton Watson, Jim Francis, J.R. Messado, Zoe Naomi Bridgeman, C.J. Jackman-Zigante, Alex Topoh |
Four months after Kate Moore's death, Johnny's friends decide to stage an intervention to shake him out of his guilt. As Bruce drives him to Purdy's lakeside resort where he, Sarah, Walt, and Dana are awaiting their arrival, Johnny senses that a major storm is brewing. Johnny and Bruce have a series of misadventures from losing their car, to helping people from a destroyed roadside diner, to hitching a ride with a overbearing tourist family, then having an encounter with the same roadside carnival on the night of his car accident, all of which leads to Johnny being forced to try to come to terms with his destiny in order to save the people he loves from a inexplicable tornado.
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Frank Whaley, Nicole de Boer, David Ogden Stiers, Anthony Michael Hall, Lisa Marie Caruk, Robert Picardo, Jane Lynch, Campbell Lane, Chris Bruno, Richard Hendery, John L. Adams, Anne Marie DeLuise, Kristen Dalton, Brian Drummond, Taras Kostyuk, Johanna Olson, Katharine Horsman |
While at a school science fair, Johnny gets a disturbing vision of a group of children getting extremely ill. Johnny persuades Walt to quarantine the building and eventually the children begin to get sick. Johnny realizes that without his help the children will die, including JJ. With the assistance of Rev. Purdy, Johnny must help Walt and the local health inspector, Jim Pratt, try to identify as well as find the source of the mysterious virus before it kills off the entire town.
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Stephen Tobolowsky, Nicole de Boer, David Ogden Stiers, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Mondy, P. Lynn Johnson, Jennifer Clement, Kaaren de Zilva, Michael Adamthwaite, Chris Bruno, Jason Diablo, Peter Grasso, Genevieve Buechner, Keith Gordey, Amber Borycki, Dax Belanger, Anita Brown, Jennifer Anne Lee, Spencer Achtymichuk, Lucas McCann, Richard Chen See |
A very strange night for Johnny begins when, during an evening out with Bruce at a local restaurant, Johnny is forced into a series of changing visions to help a young woman he's romantically attracted to, and each vision has both of them begin killed by mysterious assailants, making Johnny relive the evening over and over until he finds a way to break the circle of time to a satisfying revelation.
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Eric Breker, Anthony Michael Hall, Gerard Plunkett, David Lewis, Reiko Aylesworth, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Kristen Dalton, Miguelito Macario Andaluz, Brendan Beiser, Darren Hird |
Johnny is forcibly recruited by a shadowy agency called the Goverment Remote Viewing Unit who wants his help to identify and find the fugitive Osama Bin Laden in hiding in Pakistan. Using captured items from an aide to Bin Laden, Johnny is able to make progress, until he learns from fellow psychics at the facility that the strike operation may be walking into a trap, and with only a satellite radio con wave, Johnny ends up being the only one with the visions to help the US strike steam escape from a deadly trap.
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J.B. Bivens, Anthony Michael Hall, Alex Zahara, Donnelly Rhodes, Karin Konoval, John L. Adams, Gary Hetherington, Jason Griffith, Scott Hylands, Trevor Jones, Parm Soor, Shawn Reis, John Burnside, Tamara Lashley, Terra C. MacLeod, Tony Ali, Chris Lawrence |
After getting a vision during a weekend camping trip with Sarah, Walt, and JJ, Johnny sets out with them to search for a plane crash site in the deep woods, in which they are taken hostage by a corrupt park ranger and a murderous couple seeing Johnny's help to find the crash site to retrieve a mysterious case that contains $2 million. Johnny must find a way to help stop the evil trio after another vision has them killing them after they find the plane wreck. Also, Johnny has another unsettling vision of a black-clad figure with burn scars on his face.
Johnny has a vision of a young and rising boxer, named Danny Avila, getting killed in a boxing ring fighting a middleweight champion. When Johnny goes public with the knowledge, he inadvertently makes matters worse when the greedy promoter, Jimmy D., plans to make it a full-stage event of the evening. Johnny and Bruce then try other measures to try to ensue Avila survives, but each vision is the same of the young boxer dying.
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Frank Whaley, David Ogden Stiers, Ken Pogue, Glenn Plummer, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Jarrett, Greg Serano, Jay Kramer, John L. Adams, Alexandra Castillo, Doug Abrahams, Alfonso Quijada, Brian Kenny, Jim K. Chan, Teddy Atlas, Max Kellerman, Joe Tessitore |
As Johnny continues attending family events with Sarah, Walt, and JJ, whom the youngster is still unaware that Johnny is his natural father, Johnny sets out to uncover the mystery of the mysterious man with facial radiation burns on his face, which a tip from the mystery man himself leads Johnny to a house in White Plains, New York with Bruce where Johnny discovers that the man Christopher Wey, a hotshot building contractor, also as the gift/curse of 'the Dead Zone' after he lands in a coma and wakes up years in the future after the nuclear holocaust that destroys the surface of the world. Wey needs Johnny's help to save the life of his wife and young daughter, as well as prevent him from entering a coma so Johnny can find out how and when the upcoming nuclear war starts in the first place.
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Frank Whaley, Nicole de Boer, Ione Skye, Anthony Michael Hall, Vincent Gale, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Hrothgar Mathews, Gerry Rousseau, Brenna O'Brien, Spencer Achtymichuk |
Season 5 (11 episodes, 11 downloadable)
Miranda is going ahead with her marriage to Stilson, for all the wrong reasons, and Johnny begs her to keep the faith that he will find a way out. It's discovered that Stilson's wedding will be televised on Faith Heritage. Meanwhile, someone has leaked information on the nation's most vulnerable terrorist targets; Johnny and Bruce discover it was Janus. The two endeavor to put a stop to the plan, not knowing what the plan really is.
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Martin Donovan, David Ogden Stiers, Laura Harris, Sean Patrick Flanery, Anthony Michael Hall, Pascale Hutton, Don S. Davis, Carrie Genzel, John L. Adams, Terence Kelly, Joris Jarsky, Clay St. Thomas, Mike Cleven, Vince Fera, Candice Macalino |
It's July 4, and Bruce and Johnny are headed to Boston for the harbor fireworks. On the way out of town, Johnny foresees Bruce's death in a car accident. Later, the pair are stuck with a few hundred newfound friends on a locked-down stretch of Interstate 95. Johnny's visions begin to foresee a multiple fatality pileup occurring, and tries to stop people from leaving; meanwhile, a dangerous escaped felon is loose somewhere near the highway.
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Anthony Michael Hall, Christian Bocher, Ben Cotton, Matthew Currie Holmes, Dylan Bruno, Georgia Craig, John L. Adams, Nolan Gerard Funk, Chelan McKenzie, Ryf Van Rij, Lena Bookall |
Randy, a teenage neighbor of Johnny Smith, comes home to find his father shot in the head. Escaping from two hired killers who want his own head as well, Randy runs to Johnny Smith's house, with the gunmen hot on his trail. Johnny's visions prevent him from fatal run-ins with the killers, and to see that they have cut phone and power to the house. As the group race to stay one step ahead of the killers who have now broken in, Johnny learns (as has Bannerman, who arrives on the scene solo only to get held hostage) that Randy and his father were unwitting witnesses to a mob hit. Johnny begins to get visions of his father Herb as a young boy during WWII. The visions, which show Herb convincing his father to harbor the family of his Japanese friend from an angry mob, also expose to John a few secrets of the house that give them a few advantages over the ruthless intruders.
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Robert Egger, Sam Charles, Issey Lamb, Emiko Abe, Kevin Durand, Eric Breker, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Mondy, Dustin Milligan, Darren Moore, Christopher Heyerdahl, Chris Bruno, Jim Codrington, Angelo Renai, Spencer Achtymichuk |
William Cotton, a new Faith Heritage minister with political ambitions who preaches of tolerance, and his son Darryl are new residents of Cleaves Mills. Darryl is a former member of the Seattle Korps, a white supremacist youth organization with online connections. When a young Muslim boy is killed in an apparent hate crime, Johnny picks up visions of Darryl committing an assault with a baseball bat, which is consistent with the victim's wounds. While the sheriff's office follows the lead, a visiting former love interest of Johnny's, reporter Dana Bright, and Josh Blake, editor of the Faith Heritage student paper, reveal that Reverend Cotton was formerly the leader of a neo-nazi organization. While Cotton tries to spin his past, Darryl confesses to the murder in exchange for a racially charged television appearance. Johnny begins to have doubts, and discovers that the murder of the Muslim boy was the result of a whole different kind of intolerance.
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David Ogden Stiers, Robin Nielsen, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Mondy, Andrew Wheeler, Agam Darshi, Chris Bruno, Jesse Moss, John L. Adams, Kristen Dalton, Dhirendra, Mitra Loraz, Kristian Ayre, Patricia Isaac, Chenier Hundal |
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