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Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Dead Zone Season 4 Episode 7 - Grains of Sand
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    #1 - Grains of Sand

    S4:E7

    When an immigrant woman dies, Johnny is determined to take care of her baby and reunite it with the father.

    Director:James Head
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Dead Zone Season 4 Episode 8 - Vanguard
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    #2 - Vanguard

    S4:E8

    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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  3. The Dead Zone Season 4 Episode 9 - Babble On
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    #3 - Babble On

    S4:E9

    Johnny has been getting visions of his dead father, who is apparently trying to warn him of some coming disaster.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writer:Adam Targum

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  4. The Dead Zone Season 4 Episode 10 - Coming Home
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    #4 - Coming Home

    S4:E10

    Johnny gets a vision of death concerning Sara's father, who is apparently being stalked by a "Shadow Man" who is preying on an old folks' community home.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writers:Christina Lynch, Loren Segan

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  5. The Dead Zone Season 4 Episode 11 - Saved
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    #5 - Saved

    S4:E11

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

    Director:James Head
    Writers:Christina Lynch, Loren Segan

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  6. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 1 - Forbidden Fruit
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    #6 - Forbidden Fruit

    S5:E1

    Johnny races to find a way to stop the wedding of Miranda Ellis and Greg Stillson, while a political crisis develops that brings Stillson one step closer to the White House.

    Director:Shawn Piller
    Writers:Christina Lynch, Loren Segan

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  7. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 2 - Independence Day
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    #7 - Independence Day

    S5:E2

    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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  8. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 3 - Panic
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    #8 - Panic

    S5:E3

    Johnny is trapped in his house with J.J. and another neighborhood teen by vicious killers, and discovers a family secret while trying to keep one step ahead of the intruders.

    Director:Kevin Speckmaier
    Writer:Adam Targum

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  9. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 4 - Articles of Faith
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    #9 - Articles of Faith

    S5:E4

    Johnny helps in the investigation of a hate-crime commited by the son of a neo-Nazi, but soon has reason to believe the boy's confession may be false.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writer:Michael Taylor

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  10. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 5 - The Inside Man
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    #10 - The Inside Man

    S5:E5

    Johnny ends up taking the place of the inside man in a museum robbery to stop the crime and prevent several deaths, but soon finds he may have to help them escape to prevent innocent people from being killed.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writer:Karl Schaefer

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  11. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 6 - Lotto Fever
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    #11 - Lotto Fever

    S5:E6

    Johnny must deal with an angry man who got winning Lotto tickets from Johnny after meeting him... but is now frustrated with all the problems the money brought with it.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writer:Daniel Truly

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  12. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 7 - Symmetry
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    #12 - Symmetry

    S5:E7

    After Johnny is attacked, he begins to experience visions of his attacker's life and the life of one of the attacker's victims.

    Director:Rachel Talalay
    Writers:Christina Lynch, Loren Segan

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  13. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 8 - Vortex
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    #13 - Vortex

    S5:E8

    To save a child, Johnny infiltrates a compound belonging to a cult, but soon finds that the place is loaded with explosives and must stop a confrontation between the cult leader and the FBI before the entire place goes up.

    Director:Alexandra La Roche
    Writer:Michael Taylor

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  14. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 9 - Revelations
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    #14 - Revelations

    S5:E9

    A woman claiming to be Purdy's lost-long daughter arrives in Cleaves Mills. Johnny has a vision of the woman causing harm to Purdy, who ignores Johnny's warning. While investigating the woman, Johnny learns of Purdy's secret past.

    Director:John L. Adams
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 10 - Into the Heart of Darkness
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    #15 - Into the Heart of Darkness

    S5:E10

    The Collector returns, seeking his revenge on Johnny. Now Johnny must race against time to save a newly pregnant Sara from his grasp.

    Director:James Head
    Writers:Shintaro Shimosawa, James Morris

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  16. The Dead Zone Season 5 Episode 11 - The Hunting Party
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    #16 - The Hunting Party

    S5:E11

    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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  17. The Dead Zone Season 6 Episode 1 - Heritage
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    #17 - Heritage

    S6:E1

    Johnny views visions of his friends in danger at a festival. He believes he has averted the disaster, but a fire later claims two people changing Johnny's life and the world's fate.

    Director:James Head
    Writer:Ann Lewis Hamilton

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  18. The Dead Zone Season 6 Episode 2 - Ego
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    #18 - Ego

    S6:E2

    Johnny investigates a psychiatrist after a vision shows her being shot, he uncovers several patients who would like her dead.

    Director:Rachel Talalay
    Writer:Matt McGuinness

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  19. The Dead Zone Season 6 Episode 3 - Re-Entry
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    #19 - Re-Entry

    S6:E3

    Johnny gets a vision of disaster on a private space mission and is forced to work with Stillson to save the crew.

    Director:Tim Southam
    Writers:Jim Dunn, Sam Ernst

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  20. The Dead Zone Season 6 Episode 4 - Big Top
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    #20 - Big Top

    S6:E4

    Johnny visits an "Alice in Wonderland"-themed circus and becomes part of a ten year old murder. Johnny later realizes that J.J. may have inherited a part of his psychic powers.

    Director:Nick Copus
    Writer:Richard Hatem

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  21. The Dead Zone Season 6 Episode 5 - Interred
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    #21 - Interred

    S6:E5

    Johnny has a vision of a man who has been buried alive. Johnny, with the help of Turner, rushes to locate the man.

    Director:James Head
    Writer:Katie Wech

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  22. The Dead Zone Season 6 Episode 6 - Switch
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    #22 - Switch

    S6:E6

    Johnny is taking a train trip when he has a vision of someone throwing a woman from the train. Johnny goes to help and becomes romantically involved with her, but soon suspects that she's a fraud.

    Director:Paolo Barzman
    Writer:Scott Lew

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  23. The Dead Zone Season 6 Episode 7 - Numb
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    #23 - Numb

    S6:E7

    Sarah must take unexpected actions to save Johnny's life after he goes into a coma.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writer:Dana Greenblatt

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  24. The Dead Zone Season 6 Episode 8 - Outcome
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    #24 - Outcome

    S6:E8

    Johnny must turn to a friend of Sarah's for help when he gets a vision of an imminent bus station bombing.

    Director:Érik Canuel
    Writers:Jim Dunn, Sam Ernst

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  25. The Dead Zone Season 6 Episode 9 - Transgressions
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    #25 - Transgressions

    S6:E9

    Johnny becomes involved in a murder case involving a young woman and demonic possession, where everything isn't as it seems.

    Director:James Head
    Writer:Katie Wech

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Grains of Sand" is the worst rated episode of "The Dead Zone". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by James Head and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/31/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Vanguard".