The Dead Zone (1983)
Not exactly Sci-Fi, but for anyone who wants to see the original Movie which lead to the series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085407/
[quote]Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the ability to foretell a person's future simply by touching his or her hand. After seeing several examples, Walken's doctor Herbert Lom becomes convinced that Walken can not only predict the future, but also has the power to change it. This ability is given its severest test when Walken shakes the hand of ruthless political candidate Martin Sheen�?