"The Dead Zone" (2002) TV series 2002-2007

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Creators:

Michael Piller
Shawn Piller

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Release Date:

16 June 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

You should see what he sees.

Plot:

Johnny Smith has been leading an idyllic small-town life. Employed as a science teacher, Johnny takes...

Plot Keywords:

Psychic Power | Psychic | Sheriff | Dark Hero | Illuminati

Awards:

1 win & 15 nominations

Cast

Anthony Michael Hall	...	Johnny Smith / ... (81 episodes, 2002-2007)
Chris Bruno	...	Sheriff Walt Bannerman / ... (63 episodes, 2002-2007)
Nicole de Boer	...	Sarah Bracknell Bannerman / ... (62 episodes, 2002-2007)
John L. Adams	...	Bruce Lewis (56 episodes, 2002-2007)
David Ogden Stiers	...	Reverend Eugene 'Gene' Purdy (39 episodes, 2002-2007)
Bill Mondy	...	Deputy Roscoe / ... (34 episodes, 2002-2006)

Also Known As:

Stephen King's Dead Zone (USA)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M | Singapore:NC-16 | Netherlands:12 | USA:TV-14 | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Crescent Entertainment

Trivia:

Started originally as a pilot for a series to be shown on the UPN network in the fall of 2001. When UPN decided not to run it, the USA Network picked it up.

Goofs:

Continuity: Johnny's hairstyle changes back and forth several times during the episodes "Wheel of Fortune" and "What It Seems" because of reshoots that were done a year after the initial filming.

Quotes:

Reverend Purdy: I know this isn't the life you would've chosen. But is the life that has chosen YOU. And you cannot deny the possibility that some other force is guiding you, choosing what you see.
Johnny Smith: Just say his name Reverend, I know you're dying to.
Reverend Purdy: Destiny, Johnny. It is your destiny to help people. I truly believe that.

Movie Connections:

Follows The Dead Zone (2002) (V)

i hope it gets better...

i thought i might add a review as well. i have seen 5 episodes so far and have to say i'm not really impressed. in fact i am amazed that the series made it into 5 seasons, so i certainly hope it gets much better.

i hoped so as well before i saw episode 4 in season 1 called "enigma". it would be a fair so-so episode much later after a few years of the show, where the writers ran out of ideas - but to see something like that in the first season, where you want to hook up people on it (and not bore them to death), is really weird. OK, maybe the episode looked better on paper - lets go for the next one "unreasonable doubt". better than the last one (but OK, that wasn't hard to manage) but still not even good.

the scheme is always the same: psychic guy touches someone/something, has a vision (some of them are technically very nice!) and is always right about it. after that he has to convince the others that he's right. where is the suspense in that? his visions are too clear - and i wonder how he can get always the "important" information (that can carry on the plot) out of a person/object and not one other from the millions of possibilities. strangely enough, neither the main character nor anyone else gets thoughts about that fact.

i'll give this series another try when i'm really really bored and there are no other series to watch - otherwise i might end up being grumpy about the wasted time. but it might be that i rather start watching the x-files on DVD again, even though i know all of them, they don't bore me when i'm seeing it a second or third time - in contrary to "the dead zone", which bored me the first time i watched it and i definitely won't see it a second time...