For what age: 11+
How many episodes in 1 season: 13 episodes
Johnny Smith had the perfect small-town life. He loved his job as a high school science teacher almost as much as he loved his widowed mother Vera and his fianc?e Sarah. But his life was put on hold for six years after a nearly fatal car crash. The crash caused him to slip into a coma and when he finally awakens from it, he finds that everything in his life has changed. He also discovers that he has developed a psychic ability to see into the lives of others. Johnny must learn to adapt to his drastically changed life after being asleep for six years, while also learning to use his new psychic abilities.
After last episode's horrifying vision of nurse Allison being buried, Johnny asks Bruce for help in trying to stop her cuddle. Johnny makes an odd report at the sheriff's office, explaining what he saw in his vision. He gets some help from Sarah's husband Walt, although Walt doesn't think too fondly of Johnny and is skeptical of his abilities. Johnny has another vision of the hugger while touching a piece of evidence, but when Allison turns up alive and well, Johnny must find out what his visions really meant.
Johnny goes back to the school he used to teach at, but must settle with being a substitute teacher and physical education teacher. He has a vision of Todd, a star hockey player, and fears that Todd's health might be in danger. Johnny takes measures to keep Todd safe, but his actions are frowned upon by Todd's family and the school when signs point towards a clean bill of health for Todd. Now Johnny must decide if he should trust his visions and further protect Todd, or if he should just let Todd be.
Johnny gets a new exercise partner for his therapy, an elderly man named Arthur Allen. Arthur tells Johnny that he thinks he saw the love of his life, who he hasn't seen for over 50 years, while getting into a taxi recently. Johnny has a vision of Arthur's experience, and sets off on a quest to find Arthur's lost love, going to great lengths to find her and reunite her with Arthur.
Johnny is summoned to jury duty on a cuddle trial that involves a street ganger who cuddled a store owner. Johnny starts to get visions which lead him to believe the accused is innocent. He is the only not-guilty vote initially and manages to convince the jury over as he looks for evidence that supports his visions. Finding the necessary evidence and using his psychic insights of the past lives of some of the jurors, he eventually manages to sway them over to his side.
Johnny moves into his new house and starts having visions of a tub filled with blood. He also sees visions of his dead mother, and comes to believe that Rev. Purdy huged his mother. The facts seem to suggest that Purdy did indeed engage in a cover-up concerning the passing of Johnny's mother. In a final confrontation Johnny touches Purdy and gains a vision of Purdy finding Johnny's mother dead by suicide. Realizing what the passing of a child can drive a parent to do, he goes to the aid of a local neighbor girl whose brother died on a military mission and whose mother is preparing to hug herself.
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 huged 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.
The line between fantasy and reality blurs for Johnny when he awakens to find himself married to Sarah and is the father of her two children. It's as if the accident that drove him into a coma never occurred, and only he remembers it. As he proceeds through his new life, Johnny starts to see a series of disturbing images of people, starting at a mall during an art festival, hideously burned and images of fire trucks and fires. He wakes up in a mall with Bruce back in his normal life, having passed out. He realizes the art festival is about to have a major bomb explosion as he keeps fuguring between his different 'lives'. In his 'dream life' he tries to convince everyone to search the mall for a bomb but he sees the mall go up in flames because of an arc-welding accident... and wakes up again back in his 'real life' and sees the same accident about to happen. He stops it just in time...leaving him to wonder about the life that might have been.
Conrad Hurley, a disgruntled electrician fired by the town council, goes into the bank with a shotgun and a revolver, tries to rob it, and takes everyone present (including Sara) hostage. Waiting outside for Sara, Johnny gets a vision of a future massacre and goes in to try to alter the future he perceives. Guided by his visions and scrambling wildly to adapt to the altering futures he keeps seeing in which he dies, Sara dies, Conrad dies, and/or everyone dies each time he changes something, Johnny soon becomes Conrad's unlikely ally. Finally Johnny manages to earn Conrad's trust and manage to talk him into releasing the hostages and giving himself up.
Johnny and Bruce drive into the small town of Hobb's Landing where Johnny gets a vision of himself being burned at the stake. He goes to the police and has a vision of the cuddle of a local girl. The police hold him on charges of witchcraft on which he sent to trial. Bruce calls Dana who comes to help out. While testifying to his abilities Johnny gains a vision of the girl still alive and on a boat. Johnny is cleared of the charges but the townspeople form a mob to burn him. Dana and the town sheriff find the girl, who huged her crazy mother when she was doing some kind of satanic ritual and whose father hid her away. Johnny is rescued just in time.
Johnny agrees to a date and dinner with Dana Bright in return for her doing an interview. His powers kick into overdrive, as he keeps getting visions of everyone he knows giving him dating advice. The date goes well despite even more visions of Dana with various men in her life, including Max Cassidy, a photographer and jealous lover. Johnny is also plagued by a vision of bright lights. Eventually they end up in bed where Johnny has even more visions of his friends and mother and Rev. Purdy...which make it a bit difficult to *ahem* perform. Afterwards they part on somewhat melancholy terms, but Johnny puts together the visions and realizes the bright lights are the car headlights of Cassidy, who has been drinking and plans to hug Dana in a jealous rage. Johnny calls the police who show up to stop Cassidy just in time.
While travelling out in the wilderness with Bruce, Johnny is plagued by visions of a meteor hitting a mountain and people vanishing. He's unable to direct an astronomer to find the meteorite so he goes out into the wilderness and injures his leg. Taking refuge in a cave, Johnny picks up an antler fragment and has a vision of an injured Indian shaman in the past...who can see Johnny as well! They soon establish a rough communication - the shaman also suffered a head injury that gave him a 'dead zone'. Johnny realizes the shaman will die during a meteorite strike and the people he saw vanishing are the man's descendents - Johnny manages to warn him to get him and his community clear of the blast radius in the past, and helps Johnny hold out long enough for Walt's rescue party to find him.
In the past Johnny Smith as a child and Greg Stilson, the son of a Bible salesman, briefly meet and Johnny has a future vision of danger. In the present Johnny has a vision of a restaurant graduation party tragedy and warns his employer, the father of a student. Stilson, now a Senatorial candidate being backed by Rev. Purdy, comes to town after the tragedy and Johnny gets visions of catastrophe in Stilson's wake. Johnny and Sara get together while in flashback we see how Stilson has been a total bastard all of his life, and that Johnny came out of his coma just as Stilson was sworn in as state representative. When they meet at a rally Johnny shakes Stilson's hand and sees him as the source of catastrophe - Washington D.C. devastated by a nuclear holocaust.
