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Dead at 21

Dead at 21

★ 6.7/10•1994•25m•NR•Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Dead at 21 is a television series broadcast by MTV in 1994. The series ran for eleven thirty-minute episodes with a two-part final episode. The series was created by Jon Sherman, and written by Sherman, P.K. Simonds and Manny Coto.

StatusEnded
Runtime25m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJun 15, 1994

Episodes

E1

Dead at 21

The victim of a government experiment to create superintelligent humans learns the cause of the strange dreams he has been having—and that he will self-destruct by his 21st birthday unless he finds the scientist who ""created"" him by implanting a chip in his brain. He becomes a fugitive when he and Maria, a girl who crashed his 20th birthday party, are accused of killing another ""cyb"" actually shot by a government agent named Winston, bent on tracking down all the cybs and killing them. Ed's only hope for survival is a doctor who worked on the project, Victor Heisenberg.

Jun 15, 1994

E2

Brain Salad

Ed checks into a hospital for brain surgery, and learns disheartening news about Victor Heisenberg.

Jun 22, 1994

E3

Love Minus Zero

Ed and Maria meet a cyb who wants to run away with them, but is ignorant of her condition.

Jun 29, 1994

E4

Shock the Monkey

Ed and Maria search for Victor Heisenberg's grave and become involved with animal-rights activists.

Jul 6, 1994

E5

Gone Daddy Gone

Maria's con-artist father tracks her down.

Jul 13, 1994

E6

Use Your Illusion

Ed and Maria find their exploits chronicled in a comic book created by a cyb who's plotting to kill the senator in charge of the neurocybernetics project.

Jul 20, 1994

E7

Live for Today

Ed and Maria's feelings for each other are tested after partying with a surfer and his friends.

Jul 27, 1994

E8

Tie Your Mother Down

Ed prepares to give himself up when Winston kidnaps his mother, but Maria suspects a trap.

Aug 3, 1994

E9

Cry Baby Cry

Winston trails Ed and Maria as they search for an abandoned baby's mother.

Aug 10, 1994

E10

Life During Wartime

The host of a pirate TV show offers to help Ed and Maria expose the project.

Aug 17, 1994

E11

Hotel California

Ed and Maria visit Cali, a 35 year-old cyb, to discover the secret of his longevity.

Aug 24, 1994

E12

In Through the Out Door (1)

Winston finally catches up with Ed and Maria, who are hiding out in Los Angeles. Once captured, Ed is taken to a facility where he meets with others like him and is told that there may be a way to counteract the rapidly deteriorating chip in his head.

Aug 31, 1994

E13

In Through the Out Door (2)

Maria discovers that everything isn't as it seems at the retreat where Ed hooks up with others like him. As things spiral out of control, Winston may be their only hope for escape but Maria is shocked when it appears that all of the subjects, including Ed, have terminated.

Sep 7, 1994

Actors

Whip Hubley

Whip Hubley

Jack Noseworthy

Jack Noseworthy

Lisa Dean Ryan

Lisa Dean Ryan

Andrea Roth

Andrea Roth

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