8.2/10182 votesLoading...#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
8.0/10192 votesLoading...#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
8.0/10173 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10188 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10243 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10228 votesLoading...#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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7.7/10142 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10148 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10136 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10155 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10127 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.5/10317 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.5/10177 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.5/10145 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10131 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10126 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.5/1095 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.5/10108 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.4/10250 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.4/10199 votesLoading...#21 - 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.
7.4/10166 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10154 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10150 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10159 votesLoading...#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
The Best Episodes of The Dead Zone
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.
Genres:DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:USA Network
Episodes
80
Avg. Rating
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Best Episodes Summary
"Deja Voodoo" is the best rated episode of "The Dead Zone". It scored 8.2/10 based on 182 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".
