‘The Dead Zone’ Remains One of Stephen King’s Most Overlooked TV Adaptations

While some of King’s projects turned out better than others, in 1991 he decided to take full creative control with Golden Years, a sci-fi thriller he’d originally envisioned as a novel. He wrote the first five episodes of what he called a “novel for TV” and planned out the remaining two, hoping it would become a long-running series. Unfortunately, CBS canceled the show after all seven episodes aired, and the project was abandoned.








