About this season
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.
Episodes (13)
1. Dead at 21
Aired 15 June 1994
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.
2. Brain Salad
Aired 22 June 1994
Ed checks into a hospital for brain surgery, and learns disheartening news about Victor Heisenberg.
3. Love Minus Zero
Aired 29 June 1994
Ed and Maria meet a cyb who wants to run away with them, but is ignorant of her condition.
4. Shock the Monkey
Aired 6 July 1994
Ed and Maria search for Victor Heisenberg's grave and become involved with animal-rights activists.
5. Gone Daddy Gone
Aired 13 July 1994
Maria's con-artist father tracks her down.
6. Use Your Illusion
Aired 20 July 1994
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.
7. Live for Today
Aired 27 July 1994
Ed and Maria's feelings for each other are tested after partying with a surfer and his friends.
8. Tie Your Mother Down
Aired 3 August 1994
Ed prepares to give himself up when Winston kidnaps his mother, but Maria suspects a trap.
9. Cry Baby Cry
Aired 10 August 1994
Winston trails Ed and Maria as they search for an abandoned baby's mother.
10. Life During Wartime
Aired 17 August 1994
The host of a pirate TV show offers to help Ed and Maria expose the project.
11. Hotel California
Aired 24 August 1994
Ed and Maria visit Cali, a 35 year-old cyb, to discover the secret of his longevity.
12. In Through the Out Door (1)
Aired 31 August 1994
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.
13. In Through the Out Door (2)
Aired 7 September 1994
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.