

The Burning Zone
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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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Pilot
03-09-199660mAfter hibernating for 15,000 years, a malevolent virus is released from an ancient tomb in Costa Rica. A top team of specialists is assembled to research it. Infection causes blo...
- Ep 2
2.The Silent Tower
10-09-199660mDr. Cassian, the new team leader, sends the biocrisis team to investigate a Chicago high-rise. A mysterious rash of suicides caused by hallucinations has led to 79 deaths in the t...
- Ep 3
3.St. Michael's Nightmare
17-09-199660mThe team travels to Philadelphia to search for the cause of violence and death that have occurred the last two years during the Festival of St. Michael, a celebration of good's vic...
- Ep 4
4.Arms of Fire
24-09-199660mCassian's biocrisis team investigates two cases of spontaneous human combustion at a poor urban high school. The team traces the cause to an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company.
- Ep 5
5.Night Flight
01-10-199660mDuring the flight back from a small island country, Marcase, Shiroma and Hailey must fight an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever. Faced with a 5-hour flight, they must find a cure in t...
- Ep 6
6.Lethal Injection
15-10-199660mA sinister government black-project uses death row inmates as guinea pigs to make contact with the afterlife. It nearly costs Marcase his life, and Cassian must find a way to shut...
- Ep 7
7.Touch of the Dead
29-10-199660mCassian is infected with a bacteria that will kill him in 48 hours. While searching for an antidote, the team uncovers a government conspiracy.
- Ep 8
8.Hall of the Serpent
12-11-199660mCassian's niece falls under the spell of a self-proclaimed healer who claims to be able to cure deadly diseases. He appears to heal people-until they defy him. The team infiltrat...
- Ep 9
9.Blood Covenant
19-11-199660mA doctor, angry with the US government for the death of his wife and for abandoning him in Zaire threatens to infect Orlando's main blood supply with malaria unless a billion dolla...
- Ep 10
10.Faces in the Night
26-11-199660mWhen Dr. Shiroma is abducted by a serial killer who only kills his victims during the full moon, the team races to discover the killer's identity before she becomes his next victim...
- Ep 11
11.Midnight of the Carrier
07-01-199760mThe team removes a capsule from the head of an old man. This leads to the shocking discovery of white supremacists in the CIA and occultism in the Third Reich. During the operati...
- Ep 12
12.Critical Mass
28-01-199760mDr. Brian Taft, a neuropathologist, is enlisted by Cassian to help investigate the death of a LA fireman. After being exposed to a meteorite, the fireman grew fatal brain tumors a...
- Ep 13
13.Death Song
04-02-199760mSeveral recovering Hodgkin's patient's bones are suddenly breaking into multiples fractures. Cassian and Taft investigate the gruesome deaths. Hailey becomes involed with a famou...
- Ep 14
14.The Last Endless Summer
11-02-199760mWhen several surfers come down with a fatal but undetectable disease that causes organ failure overnight, Cassian's team is called in to assist. A medical student, with a promisin...
- Ep 15
15.The Last Five Pounds are the Hardest
18-02-199760mSeveral people across the US are found dead or in a coma. The only connection is Metabathin, a diet pill. While Taft's investigation can find nothing wrong with Metabathin, Cassi...
- Ep 16
16.Elegy For a Dream
29-04-199760mTaft's football-playing nephew falls victim to a flesh-eating bacterium that may cause him to lose his arm. Contaminated tattoo ink is spreading the bacterium around Chicago.
- Ep 17
17.A Secret in the Neighborhood
06-05-199760mWhen a boy collapses at an amusement park with burns in his mouth and throat, chemical weapons are suspected. The team suspects a government installation has a hazardous chemical...
- Ep 18
18.Wild Fire
13-05-199760mA drug-resistant Cholera breaks out in Detroit. Tainted pearls smuggled from the South Pacific are the source of contamination. Cassian's team rushes to develop a cure before it...
- Ep 19
19.On Wings of Angels
20-05-199760mA secret project goes wrong when a prison escapee, who was exposed to a deadly experimental drug, kidnaps Taft and orders him to save his life or die.
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