This is the first two episodes of the television series. They originally aired as two separate episodes, part two ("What It Seems") airing the week after part one ("Wheel of Fortune"). They were edited together into one movie for the DVD release and subsequent television airings. The movie eliminates episode titles whatsoever and is just called The Dead Zone. In the original episodic television airings of the second half of the movie, also known as "What It Seems", it included the show's normal opening credits and theme song.
The DVD has an alternate ending in which the final battle takes place in a forest, along with an introduction by Shawn Piller about why the new ending was used.
Campbell Lane (Barker #2) also appeared in Stephen King's "Needful Things" (1993).