Dead Zone (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dead zone |
| Original title | The Dead Zone |
 | |
| Country of production | United States , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2002-2007 |
| length | 44 minutes |
| Episodes | 80 in 6 seasons |
| genre | Drama , mystery |
| Theme music |
Jeff Buckley - New Year's Prayer (Seasons 1-3) Blues Saraceno - Dead Zone Epic (Seasons 4-6) |
| idea |
Michael Piller Shawn Piller |
| First broadcast | June 16, 2002 (USA) on USA Network |
| German-language first broadcast |
August 31, 2005 on RTL II |
Dead Zone is a US-Canadian television series based on the book of the same name, Dead Zone - The Assassination attempt by Stephen King .
The series was produced by the Lions Gate studios for the US cable broadcaster USA Network and was broadcast there from June 16, 2002. The German-language first broadcast took place in February 2005 on Syfy . The series was first broadcast on German free TV on August 31, 2005 on the private broadcaster RTL II .
The series was developed by the long-time and now deceased Star Trek producer Michael Piller and his son Shawn Piller , who were also responsible for the production of the series together with Lloyd Segan . The Dead Zone was originally developed for the United Paramount Network (UPN), but the series switched to the USA Network before the first season was broadcast .
For the scripts, Michael Piller had set up an open story proposal process known from Star Trek , to which theoretically any interested hobby writer can contribute with a creative idea. For each new season there was a writer's guide that was publicly available on the Internet , which summarized where the series was at the end of the season and how the suggestions for individual episodes should be made in order to have the highest possible chance of realization.
USA Network announced on December 19, 2007 that the series would be discontinued at the end of the sixth season.
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The main character is former teacher John Robert Smith from Penobscot County in the US state of Maine , who woke up from a six-year coma after an accident and since then has visions of the future and the past when he touches objects or people. The television series is based on the book . The role constellation has been changed to make it more TV-friendly. Sarah no longer marries a nameless lawyer, but has a son from Johnny and is the wife of the sheriff Bannermann , with whom Johnny has to work in many episodes. The black physiotherapist Bruce and the opaque television preacher Reverend Gene Purdy , who is Johnny's guardian during his coma , were newly introduced as friends of Johnny's . Elements from the book appear especially in the first season, including the search for serial killer Frank Dodd and the fire at Cathy's Steakhouse . From the end of the first season, the common thread of the series across all seasons is John Smith's fight against the unscrupulous politician Greg Stillson , who could one day cause the nuclear end of the world. The assassination from the novel and the film adaptation also appears in a vision that Bruce has with Johnny's help, which shows what would have happened if he hadn't met Johnny. In the sixth season, a new path is finally taken in the story. Sheriff Walt Bannerman is killed trying to save Gene Purdy from his burning church. Shortly before, Purdy killed Stillson's "man in the background" - Malcolm Janus - who until then did not shrink from any unscrupulous method of paving Stillson's way into the White House . When Johnny shakes hands with the now incumbent Vice President, he receives a vision in which Armageddon is missing. The future seems to be saved, but after Walt's death his computer is confiscated. Investigations are now being initiated against her predecessor by the new female sheriff Anna Turner, as he apparently had secret accounts.
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| actor | character | Main role | Supporting role | German voice actors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Michael Hall | Johnny Smith | 1-6 | Sascha Draeger | |
| Nicole de Boer | Sarah Bracknell Bannerman | 1-6 | Jennifer Bottcher | |
| Chris Bruno | Sheriff Walter "Walt" Bannerman | 1-5 | 6th | Wolfgang Wagner |
| John L. Adams | Bruce Lewis | 1-6 | Jan-David Rönfeldt | |
| Spencer Akhtymichuk | Johnny "JJ" Bannerman | 1-5 | ||
| Connor Price | Johnny "JJ" Bannerman | 6th | ||
| David Ogden Stiers | Reverent Gene Purdy | 1-6 | Klaus Nietz | |
| Sean Patrick Flanery | Greg Stillson | 1-6 | Stephan Schwartz | |
| Bill Mondy | Deputy Roscoe | 1-6 | ||
| Carry chalk | James Stillson | 1-4 | ||
| Kristen Dalton | Dana Bright | 1-2, 5th | Marion von Stengel | |
| Johanna Olson | Kate | 2-6 | ||
| Frank Whaley | Christopher Wey | 2-3 | ||
| Sarah Wynter | Rebecca Caldwell | 3-4 | Marion Martienzen | |
| Martin Donovan | Malcolm Janus | 4-6 | ||
| Laura Harris | Miranda Ellis | 4-5 | ||
| Jennifer Finnigan | Alex Sinclair | 4, 6 | ||
| Cara Buono | Anna Turner | 6th | Eva Michaelis |