The Burning Zone
The Burning Zone

The Burning Zone

1996 1 Seasons 19 Episodes ⭐ 7.5 Drama

The Burning Zone is a television drama broadcast on the UPN network as part of its 1996–97 lineup. It ran for 19 episodes. The series was rerun on SciFi Channel in the mid-to-late 1990s. The Burning Zone featured a team of American agents who could be almost instantly dispatched almost anywhere in the world to fight biological warfare and naturally occurring biohazards. The series is believed to be cashing in on the success of the New York Times bestseller The Hot Zone, which spawned biological disaster movies like Outbreak. There was a villainous organization known as "The Dawn" that was responsible for some of the threats the team faced. The members of "The Dawn" were shadowy and never fully exposed but their goals and aims were clear: To allow disease and pestilence of a biological nature restore the Earth by rendering extinct the most virulent pestilence of all—mankind.

The Burning Zone is a television drama broadcast on the UPN network as part of its 1996–97 lineup. It ran for 19 episodes. The series was rerun on SciFi Channel in the mid-to-late 1990s. The Burning Zone featured a team of American agents who could be almost instantly dispatched almost anywhere in the world to fight biological warfare and naturally occurring biohazards. The series is believed to be cashing in on the success of the New York Times bestseller The Hot Zone, which spawned biological disaster movies like Outbreak. There was a villainous organization known as "The Dawn" that was responsible for some of the threats the team faced. The members of "The Dawn" were shadowy and never fully exposed but their goals and aims were clear: To allow disease and pestilence of a biological nature restore the Earth by rendering extinct the most virulent pestilence of all—mankind.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Pilot

After hibernating for 15,000 years, a malevolent virus is released from an ancient tomb in Costa Rica. A top team of sp

EP 2

The Silent Tower

Dr. Cassian, the new team leader, sends the biocrisis team to investigate a Chicago high-rise. A mysterious rash of sui

EP 3

St. Michael's Nightmare

The team travels to Philadelphia to search for the cause of violence and death that have occurred the last two years dur

EP 4

Arms of Fire

Cassian's biocrisis team investigates two cases of spontaneous human combustion at a poor urban high school. The team t

EP 5

Night Flight

During the flight back from a small island country, Marcase, Shiroma and Hailey must fight an outbreak of hemorrhagic fe

EP 6

Lethal Injection

A sinister government black-project uses death row inmates as guinea pigs to make contact with the afterlife. It nearly

EP 7

Touch of the Dead

Cassian is infected with a bacteria that will kill him in 48 hours. While searching for an antidote, the team uncovers

EP 8

Hall of the Serpent

Cassian's niece falls under the spell of a self-proclaimed healer who claims to be able to cure deadly diseases. He app

EP 9

Blood Covenant

A doctor, angry with the US government for the death of his wife and for abandoning him in Zaire threatens to infect Orl

EP 10

Faces in the Night

When Dr. Shiroma is abducted by a serial killer who only kills his victims during the full moon, the team races to disco

EP 11

Midnight of the Carrier

The team removes a capsule from the head of an old man. This leads to the shocking discovery of white supremacists in t

EP 12

Critical Mass

Dr. Brian Taft, a neuropathologist, is enlisted by Cassian to help investigate the death of a LA fireman. After being e

EP 13

Death Song

Several recovering Hodgkin's patient's bones are suddenly breaking into multiples fractures. Cassian and Taft investiga

EP 14

The Last Endless Summer

When several surfers come down with a fatal but undetectable disease that causes organ failure overnight, Cassian's team

EP 15

The Last Five Pounds are the Hardest

Several people across the US are found dead or in a coma. The only connection is Metabathin, a diet pill. While Taft's

EP 16

Elegy For a Dream

Taft's football-playing nephew falls victim to a flesh-eating bacterium that may cause him to lose his arm. Contaminate

EP 17

A Secret in the Neighborhood

When a boy collapses at an amusement park with burns in his mouth and throat, chemical weapons are suspected. The team

EP 18

Wild Fire

A drug-resistant Cholera breaks out in Detroit. Tainted pearls smuggled from the South Pacific are the source of contam

EP 19

On Wings of Angels

A secret project goes wrong when a prison escapee, who was exposed to a deadly experimental drug, kidnaps Taft and order

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