The Worst Episodes of The Dead Zone
Every episode of The Dead Zone ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Dead Zone!
Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "The Dead Zone" is "Lotto Fever", rated 6.1/10 from 102 user votes. It was directed by Michael Robison and written by Daniel Truly. "Lotto Fever" aired on 7/23/2006 and is rated 0.2 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Combination".
6.1/10 102 votes#1 - Lotto Fever
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 7/23/2006
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
6.3/10 140 votes#2 - The Combination
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 8/10/2003
Johnny tries to prevent a boxer from dying in the ring.
Director: James Head
Writer: Michael Taylor
6.3/10 124 votes#3 - Still Life
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 7/10/2005
A painter's daughter and model has disappeared and Johnny tries to help locate her, but is swept into a web of obsession and hidden secrets.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Juan Carlos Coto
6.3/10 108 votes#4 - Symmetry
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 7/30/2006
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
Writer: Christina Lynch, Loren Segan
6.4/10 94 votes#5 - Transgressions
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 8/12/2007
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: N/A
6.5/10 128 votes#6 - Instinct
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 8/15/2004
A series of wild and domestic animal attacks lie at the heart of a mystery that Johnny must solve before the entire town is destroyed.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Erin Maher, Kay Reindl
6.5/10 102 votes#7 - Ego
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 6/24/2007
Johnny investigates a psychiatrist after a vision shows her being shot, he uncovers several patients who would like her dead.
Director: Rachel Talalay
Writer: N/A
6.5/10 101 votes#8 - Drift
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 8/19/2007
While on a trip to visit Bruce, Johnny views a racehorse being stolen in a vision. He also realizes that he may have lost the chance to reunite with Sarah and J.J. thanks to Stilson's efforts.
Director: Holly Dale
Writer: Scott Shepherd
6.6/10 186 votes#9 - Enemy Mind
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/28/2002
While helping to track down a runaway, Jill, who is involved with drugs, Johnny is exposed to a drug that causes him to start getting weird (weirder than usual) visions. He insists on trying to find Jill, despite the concerns of Bruce and Sarah. Confusing matters further is that Jill's boyfriend is in trouble with his supplier. The boyfriend gets killed and Jill and Johnny go on the run. In the final showdown, Johnny manages to fight past his hallucinations and knock the drug dealer off a high ledge, while Jill is reunited with her mother.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: David Benz
6.7/10 234 votes#10 - Enigma
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/7/2002
Johnny becomes involved in helping an elderly patient find a long-lost love.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Joe Menosky
6.7/10 125 votes#11 - The Collector
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/19/2005
When a friend of Sara's goes missing, Johnny becomes involved trying to find her twisted abductor...before he kills the missing woman.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: James Morris, Shintaro Shimosawa
6.7/10 118 votes#12 - Grains of Sand
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 7/31/2005
When an immigrant woman dies, Johnny is determined to take care of her baby and reunite it with the father.
Director: James Head
Writer: Christina Lynch, Loren Segan
6.7/10 117 votes#13 - Coming Home
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 8/21/2005
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
Writer: Christina Lynch, Loren Segan
6.7/10 97 votes#14 - Vortex
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 8/6/2006
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
6.7/10 96 votes#15 - Interred
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 7/15/2007
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: N/A
6.8/10 133 votes#16 - Speak Now
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 8/1/2004
Johnny has a vision of himself interrupting a wedding, and becomes involved to determine why the marriage should or shouldn't be stopped, while dealing with the repercussions of Sarah's decision to abandon him and marry Walt.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Christina Lynch, Loren Segan, Moira Kirland
6.8/10 134 votes#17 - The Last Goodbye
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 7/24/2005
Johnny gets a vision of a rock star who is believed to have died...but Johnny realizes he's still alive.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: James Morris, Shintaro Shimosawa
6.8/10 147 votes#18 - A Very Dead Zone Christmas
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/2005
Johnny prepares for a Christmas celebration and has to deal with a visit by Alex, an amnesiac Santa, three young brothers without a family, and... turducken.
Director: James Head
Writer: Karl Schaefer
6.8/10 108 votes#19 - Articles of Faith
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/9/2006
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
6.8/10 116 votes#20 - Big Top
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 7/8/2007
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
6.9/10 187 votes#22 - Dinner With Dana
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/25/2002
A jealous ex-lover stalks Dana as her affair with Johnny heats up.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: Michael Taylor
6.9/10 162 votes#23 - Misbegotten
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/23/2003
Johnny is kidnapped by three women who take him to a haunted house - each has their own reasons. Penny is romantically obsessed with Johnny and wants to have his baby, Maddy plans on making a "Blair Witch" style Internet event and sell it to Rev. Purdy, and Anita is seemingly obsessed with the mystery of the family who was killed there. While Dana and Sara reluctantly go through the piles of "fan mail" that Johnny receives, 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. With the women's help the police arrive just in time as Anita/Nicholas goes berserk. Johnny manages to restrain her long enough to save his life and Anita is taken away.
Director: Nick Marck
Writer: Andrew Dettmann
6.9/10 146 votes#24 - Dead Men Tell Tales
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/16/2003
Johnny becomes involved with the mob when his visions lead him to help a mobster whom he sees being gunned down.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Daniel Goldin, Michael Piller
6.9/10 93 votes#25 - Revelations
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 8/13/2006
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: James Morris, Shintaro Shimosawa
