The Dead Zone Season 1 Episodes

Episode 0

Unaired Pilot

Thu, Jan 22, 2026

Episode 1

Wheel of Fortune

42 mins

Johnny Smith's life seems idyllic, he has a loving mother and is dating the love of his life, Sarah. But he is in a car accident and ends up in a coma for 6 years. When he wakes up he discovers he has an unusual ability; when he touches someone, he can sense something about them or someone close to them. He sensed that a person's child was in danger and that his doctor's mother is alive and not dead as he was told. He would later sense a serial killer and tries to tell the Sheriff Walt Bannerman who is now married to Sarah. And he doesn't believe Johnny so he and his therapist, Bruce tries to find the killer themselves.

Episode 2

What It Seems

44 mins

Johnny continues to assist the skeptical Sheriff Walt Bannerman (Sarah's husband) with his investigation into the mysterious killings. Johnny soon realizes that in saving a potential victim, a new victim has taken the previous victim's place. In discovering that the killer may be closer than anyone thinks, Johnny is torn between wanting Sarah to be in his life again, and not meddling in her marriage and her relationship with her son, who is Johnny's biological son as well.

Episode 3

Quality of Life

43 mins

Johnny gains trust in his abilities while trying to save a high school athlete from a heart attack.

Episode 4

Enigma

44 mins

Johnny uses his psychic powers to trace an old man's lost love.

Episode 5

Unreasonable Doubt

44 mins

Johnny tries to convince fellow jurors that a defendant is not guilty.

Episode 6

The House

43 mins

Johnny experiences disturbing visions in his home that lead him to discover the truth about his Mother's death.

Episode 7

Enemy Mind

42 mins

Johnny is exposed to a hallucinogenic drug while trying to save a teenage runaway from her deadly fate on the streets.

Episode 8

Netherworld

42 mins

Overloaded with visions of a fiery explosion, Johnny Smith must distinguish between dream and reality.

Episode 9

The Siege

43 mins

Johnny attempts to manipulate events during a bank robbery, but with each move he makes, the ending changes for the worse.

Episode 10

Here There Be Monsters

44 mins

Johnny has a terrifying vision of residents in a small New England town accusing him of witchcraft.

Episode 11

Dinner with Dana

43 mins

Johnny's relationship with reporter Dana Bright heats up when he invites over at his house for dinner for the evening so she can get an up-close and personal interview with him, and his sexual hormones put a damper on their impending intimacy forcing him to see his friends 'talk' to him, about their distaste for the ambitious but cynical woman. Johnny also has a vision of one of Dana's abusive boyfriends stalking her and coming to realize that her life may be in danger.

Episode 12

Shaman

44 mins

A vision of a devastating meteor striking a remote mountainside leads Johnny into the woods, where he injures himself. He seeks shelter for the night in a mountain cave, where a ghostly apparition of a Native American medicine man appears to him. Johnny is led into a dreamscape to unlock the mysteries of the shaman, who also had the so-called gift of the 'Dead Zone'--seeing into someone's future by a mere touch.

Episode 13

Destiny

44 mins

A vision leads Johnny to save rowdy teens from a house fire and escalates the media circus over his psychic abilities, and Johnny confines himself to his house. Reverend Purdy pays Johnny a visit and persuades the troubled psychic that it is his destiny to help people with his visions and that he should not run and hide. Sarah becomes more uncomfortable and slightly jealous over Johnny's blossoming romance with Dana Bright, leading her to question her feelings towards him. Meanwhile, Greg Stillson, an ambitious and unscrupulous politician, arrives in town as part of his campaign for the U.S. Congress. Stillson's background story reveals that he will do ANYTHING to get what he wants, including lie, cheat, steal, blackmail, seduce, and possibly murder. Stillson's and Johnny's paths cross when Reverend Purdy joins Stillson's campaign as an advisor. When Johnny shakes Stillson's hand, he has a horrific vision of a nuclear Armageddon.