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The Best Episodes of The Dead Zone

Genres:DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:USA Network

Every episode of The Dead Zone ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Dead Zone!

Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.
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  • Deja Voodoo
    8.2/10(186)
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    #1 - Deja Voodoo

    Season 2 Episode 15

    Aired 7/20/2003

    Johnny meets a beautiful woman in danger and is reminded again of the potentially dire consequences of even the smallest of choices.

    Director: James Head

    Writer: Karl Schaefer

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  • Cabin Pressure
    8.0/10(197)
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    #2 - Cabin Pressure

    Season 2 Episode 8

    Aired 3/2/2003

    On a flight to Washington with Purdy, Johnny is hit with a vision of their plane crashing.

    Director: Mike Rohl

    Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel

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  • Playing God
    8.0/10(179)
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    #3 - Playing God

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 3/30/2003

    When Johnny is reunited with two close friends from high school, one of whom is awaiting a heart transplant, he is tormented by a vision of the other becoming the donor.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: N/A

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  • Precipitate
    7.8/10(191)
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    #4 - Precipitate

    Season 2 Episode 5

    Aired 2/9/2003

    When Johnny is injured and infused with a blood product stemming from six different people, he begins having visions through the donors' eyes and learns one of them will die unless he intervenes.

    Director: Jefery Levy

    Writer: Teddy Tenenbaum

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  • Unreasonable Doubt
    7.7/10(247)
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    #5 - Unreasonable Doubt

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 7/14/2002

    Johnny is called to serve on a jury and uses his powers to uncover the real facts in the case.

    Director: Rob Lieberman

    Writer: Michael Taylor

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  • Shaman
    7.7/10(232)
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    #6 - Shaman

    Season 1 Episode 12

    Aired 9/8/2002

    Johnny's visions reach across time when he joins forces with a psychic Native American shaman from centuries past to avert a major disaster.

    Director: Rachel Talalay

    Writer: Joe Menosky

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  • Plague
    7.7/10(180)
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    #7 - Plague

    Season 2 Episode 14

    Aired 7/13/2003

    When J.J. falls prey to a deadly new virus sweeping across the Northeast, Johnny must use his powers to solve a medical mystery in time to save his son's life.

    Director: Mike Rohl

    Writer: N/A

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  • Visions
    7.7/10(145)
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    #8 - Visions

    Season 2 Episode 19

    Aired 8/17/2003

    Johnny sets out to discover the secret of a mysterious man who appears to be stalking him, but who actually has a life-changing message for Johnny.

    Director: Michael Robison

    Writer: Craig Silverstein

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  • Cycle of Violence
    7.7/10(149)
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    #9 - Cycle of Violence

    Season 3 Episode 9

    Aired 8/8/2004

    When Johnny has visions of a school shooting, the principal focuses on a particularly outspoken student as the likeliest culprit while Johnny struggles to confirm the identity of the shooter.

    Director: Ellie Kanner

    Writer: N/A

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  • Tipping Point (1)
    7.7/10(137)
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    #10 - Tipping Point (1)

    Season 3 Episode 12

    Aired 8/22/2004

    As problems with his dead zone become life threatening, Johnny must decide if brain surgery is an option, knowing he will lose the psychic abilities that may help prevent Armageddon.

    Director: Michael Robison

    Writer: Karl Schaefer

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  • The Man Who Never Was
    7.6/10(159)
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    #11 - The Man Who Never Was

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 3/9/2003

    A terrifying vision leads to Johnny's involvement with a man who suddenly disappears.

    Director: James Head

    Writer: David Benz

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  • Saved
    7.6/10(128)
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    #12 - Saved

    Season 4 Episode 11

    Aired 8/28/2005

    When Stillson's girlfriend disappears, he must reluctantly turn to Johnny Smith for help in locating her.

    Director: James Head

    Writer: Christina Lynch, Loren Segan

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  • Independence Day
    7.6/10(129)
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    #13 - Independence Day

    Season 5 Episode 2

    Aired 6/25/2006

    Johnny has a vision of a dead Bruce in a multi-car accident on the highway, but finds that his every effort to stop it only makes things worse.

    Director: Chris Bruno

    Writer: Adam Targum

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  • Wheel of Fortune (1)
    7.5/10(323)
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    #14 - Wheel of Fortune (1)

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 6/16/2002

    After six years in a coma following a near-fatal car accident, Johnny awakens to find he has the gift of second sight.

    Director: Rob Lieberman

    Writer: N/A

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  • Looking Glass
    7.5/10(146)
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    #15 - Looking Glass

    Season 3 Episode 7

    Aired 7/25/2004

    Johnny fights to prevent identical twin law students from using him and his visions to commit the perfect murder.

    Director: James Head

    Writer: James Morris, Shintaro Shimosawa

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  • Vanguard
    7.5/10(133)
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    #16 - Vanguard

    Season 4 Episode 8

    Aired 8/7/2005

    Johnny must help a former student, now a researcher for a plastics company, with a future of destruction setting off the doomsday of Johnny's visions.

    Director: James Head

    Writer: Juan Carlos Coto

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  • The Hunting Party
    7.5/10(97)
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    #17 - The Hunting Party

    Season 5 Episode 11

    Aired 8/27/2006

    Johnny tries to thwart the assassination of the Vice President and protect the man that Janus' secret conspiracy has set up to take the blame, but it soon becomes clear that Janus has his own plans to assure Stillson's ascension to the White House.

    Director: Kevin Speckmaier

    Writer: Adam Targum

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  • Ambush (1)
    7.5/10(109)
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    #18 - Ambush (1)

    Season 6 Episode 12

    Aired 9/9/2007

    While further investigating Walt's death, Johnny determines a link between him and his successor, Anna Turner.

    Director: Erik Canuel

    Writer: Dana Greenblatt

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  • What It Seems (2)
    7.4/10(255)
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    #19 - What It Seems (2)

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 6/23/2002

    Johnny uses his psychic powers to help solve a serial murder case.

    Director: Rob Lieberman

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Siege
    7.4/10(202)
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    #20 - The Siege

    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 8/11/2002

    Johnny attempts to manipulate the events during a hostage situation in a bank but each time he makes a move, the ending changes for the worse.

    Director: Michael Shapiro

    Writer: Philip DeGuere Jr.

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  • Destiny
    7.4/10(179)
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    #21 - Destiny

    Season 1 Episode 13

    Aired 9/15/2002

    When Johnny's prediction of a tragic fire comes true, the incident brings him unwanted media coverage, as well as the attention of Greg Stillson, a very ambitious young candidate for Congress.

    Director: Rob Lieberman

    Writer: N/A

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  • Descent (1)
    7.4/10(168)
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    #22 - Descent (1)

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 1/12/2003

    Johnny struggles to rescue four teens trapped in a collapsing mine, all while reliving - and in some way trying to redeem - sins from his family's past.

    Director: James Head

    Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe

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  • The Outsider
    7.4/10(157)
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    #23 - The Outsider

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 2/2/2003

    Johnny takes on a major corporation to prevent the mass marketing of a drug he foresees will cause terrible birth defects years down the line.

    Director: Michael Robison

    Writer: N/A

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  • Scars
    7.4/10(153)
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    #24 - Scars

    Season 2 Episode 6

    Aired 2/16/2003

    Johnny's decision to join the reelection campaign of Stillson's chief opponent, Harrison Fisher, has unintended consequences.

    Director: Armand Mastroianni

    Writer: N/A

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  • Zion
    7.4/10(163)
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    #25 - Zion

    Season 2 Episode 12

    Aired 4/6/2003

    The death of Bruce's father, Pastor David Lewis leads Bruce on an amazing journey down the "road not taken."

    Director: Michael Robison

    Writer: N/A

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    0

Best Episodes Summary

"Deja Voodoo" is the best rated episode of "The Dead Zone". It scored 8.2/10 based on 186 votes. Directed by James Head and written by Karl Schaefer, it aired on 7/20/2003. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Cabin Pressure".