8.2/10180 votesLoading...#1 - Deja Voodoo
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 7/20/2003
Johnny meets a beautiful woman in danger is reminded again of the potentially dire consequences of even the smallest of choices.
Director: James Head, Mike Rohl
Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel, Karl Schaefer
8.0/10190 votesLoading...#2 - Cabin Pressure
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/2/2003
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 injured Johnny is forced to take his seat and direct the pilot with his visions to take the proper steps to save the plane.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel
8.0/10171 votesLoading...#3 - Playing God
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/30/2003
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 getting in the accident. 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.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: David Benz, Craig Silverstein
7.8/10185 votesLoading...#4 - Precipitate
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/9/2003
Johnny must stop a series of bad future visions based on the blood donations he receives from six different donors.
Director: Jefery Levy
Writer: Teddy Tenenbaum
7.7/10239 votesLoading...#5 - Unreasonable Doubt
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/14/2002
Johnny is summoned to jury duty on a murder trial. Johnny starts to get visions which lead him to believe the accused is innocent. He is the only not-guilty vote
Director: Rob Lieberman
Writer: Michael Taylor
7.7/10225 votesLoading...#6 - Shaman
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/8/2002
While travelling out in the wilderness Johnny is plagued by visions of a meteor hitting a mountain and people vanishing. To find out which mountain it is he goes out into the wilderness and injures his leg. Taking refuge in a cave, Johnny picks up a fragment and has a vision of an Indian shaman in the past...who can see Johnny as well.
Director: Rachel Talalay
Writer: Joe Menosky
7.7/10174 votesLoading...#7 - Plague
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 7/13/2003
Johnny is troubled by a disturbing vision of a sudden viral epidemic that cuts a swath through the children of his town.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel
7.7/10140 votesLoading...#8 - Visions
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 8/17/2003
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.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Craig Silverstein
7.7/10134 votesLoading...#9 - Tipping Point (1)
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 8/22/2004
The continuing strain of visions takes its toll on Johnny while he and Rebecca try to bring Stillson to justice for Rachel's murder, and Reverend Purdy confesses his sins.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Karl Schaefer
7.6/10152 votesLoading...#10 - The Man Who Never Was
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/9/2003
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 family moving in. Johnny gets visions of people going through his own home as well 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.
Director: James Head
Writer: David Benz
7.6/10146 votesLoading...#11 - Cycle of Violence
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 8/8/2004
While at the school Johnny gets a vision of a student going on a shooting spree and must find out who it is before it's too late.
Director: Ellie Kanner
Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel
7.5/10316 votesLoading...#12 - Wheel of Fortune (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/16/2002
Johnny Smith was leading an idyllic small-town life: working as a high school science teacher, engaged to the love of his life, Sarah, and being a devoted son to his widowed mother, Vera, who lives nearby. But after a near-fatal car accident puts him in a deep coma, Johnny awakens six years later to find everything has changed: Sarah is now married to someone else, local sheriff Walt Bannerman; the child they are raising is actually Johnny's son and knows nothing about his real father; and Johnny's mother Vera has passed away, leaving Johnny's finances under the thumb of Reverend Purdy, an influential religious leader who is also his mother's former lover. But, most importantly, Johnny himself has changed: he now finds himself with the gift (or curse) of second sight.
Director: Rob Lieberman
Writer: Michael Piller
7.5/10129 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.5/10124 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.5/10125 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.5/1093 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.5/10107 votesLoading...#17 - Ambush
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10248 votesLoading...#18 - What It Seems (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/23/2002
With the help of his new friend Bruce, Johnny attempts to stop the Bangor Strangler from claiming another victim.
Director: Rob Lieberman
Writer: Michael Piller
7.4/10196 votesLoading...#19 - The Siege
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/11/2002
Conrad Hurley, a disgruntled electrician fired by the town council, goes into the bank with a shotgun and a revolver, tries to rob it, and takes everyone present (including Sara) hostage. Waiting outside for Sara, Johnny gets a vision of a future massacre and goes in to try to alter the future he perceives. Guided by his visions and scrambling wildly to adapt to the altering futures he keeps seeing in which he dies, Sara dies, Conrad dies, and/or everyone dies each time he changes something, Johnny soon becomes Conrad's unlikely ally. Finally Johnny manages to earn Conrad's trust and manage to talk him into releasing the hostages and giving himself up.
Director: Michael Shapiro
Writer: Philip DeGuere Jr.
7.4/10175 votesLoading...#20 - Destiny
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/15/2002
In the past Johnny Smith as a child and Greg Stilson, the son of a Bible salesman, briefly meet and Johnny has a future vision of danger. In the present Johnny has a vision of a restaurant graduation party tragedy and warns his employer, the father of a student. Stilson, now a Senatorial candidate being backed by Rev. Purdy, comes to town after the tragedy and Johnny gets visions of catastrophe in Stilson's wake. Johnny and Sara get together while in flashback we see how Stilson has been a total bastard all of his life, and that Johnny came out of his coma just as Stilson was sworn in as state representative. When they meet at a rally Johnny shakes Stilson's hand and sees him as the source of catastrophe - Washington D.C. devastated by a nuclear holocaust.
Director: Rob Lieberman
Writer: Craig Silverstein
7.4/10162 votesLoading...#21 - Descent (1)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/2003
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's funeral as he is taken away in the ambulance. (To be continued)
Director: James Head
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
7.4/10146 votesLoading...#22 - Scars
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/2003
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.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Craig Silverstein
7.4/10157 votesLoading...#23 - Zion
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 4/6/2003
Johnny goes to 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.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Joe Menosky, Michael Piller
7.4/10143 votesLoading...#24 - Looking Glass
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 7/25/2004
Lawyer twins use Johnny to help prove his visions can be false and an invasion of privacy but Johnny believes his visions of a murder are real.
Director: James Head
Writer: James Morris, Shintaro Shimosawa
7.3/10197 votesLoading...#25 - The House
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/21/2002
Johnny moves into his new house and starts having visions of a tub filled with blood. He also sees visions of his dead mother, and comes to believe that Rev. Purdy killed his mother. The facts seem to suggest that Purdy did indeed engage in a cover-up concerning the death of Johnny's mother. In a final confrontation Johnny touches Purdy and gains a vision of Purdy finding Johnny's mother dead by suicide. Realizing what the death of a child can drive a parent to do, he goes to the aid of a local neighbor girl whose brother died on a military mission and whose mother is preparing to kill herself.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Michael Piller
The Best Episodes of The Dead Zone
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Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.
Genres:DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:USA Network
Best Episodes Summary
"Deja Voodoo" is the best rated episode of "The Dead Zone". It scored 8.2/10 based on 180 votes. Directed by James Head, Mike Rohl and written by Jill E. Blotevogel, Karl Schaefer, it aired on 7/20/2003. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Cabin Pressure".