Johnny Smith (Dead Zone)

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This page is about the television series version of the Stephen King character.

John Robert Smith
First appearance	"Wheel of Fortune (Part 1)"
Created by	Stephen King, and Michael Piller
Portrayed by	Anthony Michael Hall Evan Smith (9) Kai-Read Friedman Christopher Walken
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Gender	male
Age	40
Family	Johnathan Smith (grandfather, deceased) Herbert Smith (father, deceased) Vera Smith (mother, deceased) J. J. Bannerman (son)
Children	Johnny "J.J." Bannerman Jr.

John Robert Smith is a fictional character originally appearing in the Stephen King novel, The Dead Zone, then in the film and the television series of the same name.

In the television series Johnny was introduced in the pilot episode, "Wheel of Fortune (Part 1)". Born in 1967, Johnny taught Biology at Cleaves Mills High School until a horrific car crash on 6 June 1995 put him into a six-year coma from which he awoke on 1 September 2001. Since that time, he has experienced psychic visions, triggered by physical contact, of the future and the past; he has repeatedly used these visions to aid Penobscot County Sheriff Walter T. Bannerman, the man who had married Johnny's own fiance, Sarah Bracknell, and subsequently helped her raise Johnny's son J.J. while Johnny was comatose.