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The Sentinel
1996 - 1999 7.1 (65 votes) 4 Seasons
Genres
Drama Crime Action & Adventure
Networks
UPN
Created By
Danny Bilson
Paul De Meo

The Sentinel

Overview

The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.

Key Crew

Producer: Gail Morgan Hickman

Top Cast

Richard Burgi
Richard Burgi

Jim Ellison

Garett Maggart
Garett Maggart

Blair Sandburg

Bruce A. Young
Bruce A. Young

Simon Banks

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1996)

No overview available.

10 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Switchman
1996-03-20

The sole survivor of an Army plane crash in the Peruvian hinterlands, Jim Ellison subsisted for nearly two years on his raw animal instincts. When he returned to America and became a police lieutenant, Jim discovered that the abilities that had kept him alive in the jungle now gave him extraordinary senses of perception. With the help of Captain Simon Banks and a grad student Blair Sandburg, Jim now attempts to use these powers to apprehend a terrorist bomber called the Switchman.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Siege
1996-03-27

The town of Cascade is brought to its knees when Garrett Kincaid, a notorious criminal that Jim Ellison had arrested years before, seizes control of the town's police station with the help of his gang of felons.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: The Killers
1996-04-03

After witnessing the death of undercover officer Danny Choi at the hands of a sniper named Tommy Juno, Jim uses his enhanced vision to identify and apprehend the killer. But the case against Juno is thrown out of court when its decided that no human could possibly have seen as far as Ellison had claimed.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: The Debt
1996-04-10

When Blair unknowingly moves into an apartment next to the drug lab of a local gang (dubbed the 357), Jim suddenly finds himself embroiled in the beginnings of an all-out gang war.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Cypher
1996-04-24

Blair and Jim, along with forensics specialist Carolyn Plummer, suspect that a series of seemingly unrelated murders are actually the work of a serial killer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Night Train
1996-05-01

Jim and Blair are assigned to escort Derek Wilson, a key witness in a local homicide case, on his train ride from Oregon to the courthouse in Cascade. Wilson has essential information that will link his employer to charges of arson and murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Rogue
1996-05-08

While guest-lecturing in Blair's anthropology class, Jim saves the entire building from a deadly gas leak only to discover that the leak was designed to distract the campus' attention while a canister of the Ebola virus was being stolen from the hazardous materials lab.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Love and Guns
1996-05-15

After stopping an armored car heist, Ellison is struck by the high-tech weaponry at the criminals' disposal.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Attraction
1996-05-22

Jim's sentinel abilities detect something strange at the crime scenes of all the recent jewelry robberies but he's unable to figure out exactly what's causing the reaction.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Vow of Silence
1996-07-17

Blair forces Jim to take a vacation at a remote monastery. Initially reluctant, Ellison begins to enjoy the solitude until one of the monks is found dead.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1996)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Flight
1996-09-04

During a flight to South America, Captain Banks and his son Daryl crash land in the Peruvian jungle and eventually stumble across a shady lumbering operation run by a man named Reischer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Out of the Past
1996-09-11

Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Deep Water
1996-09-18

At an unrelated auto accident by the river, evidence surfaces which implicates Jim and his old partner, Jack Pendergrast, in a kidnapping/murder case from four years prior.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Reunion
1996-09-25

When Blair and Jim join Captain Banks at his 20-year high school reunion they discover more than just nostalgia awaiting them in the officer's hometown.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Payback
1996-10-02

Ellison finds himself witness to the beginnings of an underworld war between the drug-running bikers of The Void and the local representatives of the deadly Japanese Yakuza.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: True Crime
1996-10-09

Ellison gets his fifteen minutes of fame when the police department invites TV producer Wendy Hawthorne and Conner, her cameraman, to do a piece on him for her show "True Crime."

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Ice Man
1996-10-30

Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: The Rig
1996-11-06

When employees start dying "accidentally" aboard the North Star Five oilrig, Jim and Blair discover that their newest assignment has them walking a decidedly watery beat.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Spare Parts
1996-11-13

Ellison and Sandburg get a chance to hone their driving skills when some high-end car thieves set up shop on the streets of Cascade.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Second Chance
1996-11-20

When Francisco Rivero, an ex-associate of Hector Carasco, kidnaps Carasco's daughter Maya and uses her as blackmail for the family fortune, Ellison and Sandburg join forces with her Uncle Gustavo to bring her safely home.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Black or White
1996-11-27

When a series of explosions level black churches throughout Cascade, Ellison, Sandburg and Captain Banks uncover the racist influences of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) in their city.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Blind Man's Bluff
1997-01-08

Ellison and Sandburg trace the distribution of Golden, Cascade's trendy new drug, to a local dive where the narcotic wreaks havoc with Ellison's enhanced senses.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Hear No Evil
1997-01-15

Ellison sees an undercover police detective named Brent Marten thrown to his death from a police helicopter. Ellison watches Banks and his men retrieve the body from the harbor, then learns the case has been placed under the jurisdiction of Internal Affairs investigator Sheila Irwin.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Light My Fire
1997-02-05

An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Secret
1997-02-12

Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Dead Drop
1997-02-19

Sandburg becomes trapped between floors in a skyscraper elevator controlled by an extortionist, who threatens to send the elevator plummeting to its doom unless a hefty ransom is paid.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: Red Dust
1997-02-26

A birthday party for Katrina, a young Russian woman, is interrupted by a vicious attack that claims the life of two men and ends with the theft of a mysterious black suitcase from the woman's boyfriend, Sergei. Ellison and Sandburg receive little cooperation from the witnesses, but Ellison's "Sentinel" intuition leads him to discover a gold neckchain worn by Sergei is, in fact, radioactive.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: Smart Alec
1997-03-12

Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Private Eyes
1997-03-26

During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Vanishing Act
1997-04-09

Ellison and Sandburg spot a man, a mob accountant, who they thought was dead. When they try to catch up to him, he nearly runs them over escaping in his car.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Pennies from Heaven
1997-04-30

An armored truck explodes on a freeway overpass and rains hundred-dollar bills down into a ghetto neighborhood. Ellison and Sandburg investigate, but Marcus Watson, the sole witness, has vanished and no one in the ghetto is giving back the money they found.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: Survival
1997-05-07

Dawson Quinn, a cop-killing thief who stole five million dollars from the Federal Reserve that has never been found, is transported in an armored police vehicle through a stretch of forested wilderness by a team of cops assisted by Banks, Ellison and Sandburg.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 23: His Brother's Keeper
1997-05-14

A construction foreman is murdered at a racetrack under renovation, and his body is hidden in a pillar. Weeks later, Banks attends the opening of the racetrack with friends, and Ellison attends a police benefit at the track's turf club. During the benefit event, one of Banks' friends is pushed from the roof, and falls to his death in what looks to the partygoers to be a suicide.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 24: Sleeping Beauty
1997-05-21

Eight years ago: A 12-year-old girl named Stacey is woken in the middle of the night by her parents, who take her and flee their home. The family's car is run off the road, killing the parents and placing Stacey in a coma.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1997)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Warriors
1997-09-10

In the Peruvian jungle, a Chopec Sentinel named Incacha is enraged by the pollution of his land by a contaminated oil well and the murder of one of his tribesman by an employee of the Cyclops Oil Co. ... Back in Cascade, Ellison foils a burglary but accidentally shoots a security guard. Luckily, the guard is OK, but Ellison's dismay causes his Sentinel powers to disappear.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Three Point Shot
1997-09-17

When basketball players on the Cascade Jaguars start turning up dead, Jim must calculate the difference between a good shot and a deadly one.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: The Girl Next Door
1997-09-24

Blair falls for Jim's new neighbor; a beautiful woman named Iris, but learns that this particular girl next door isn't as innocent as she appears. Iris and her ex-boyfriend Chance haven't exactly been living the American dream and the smitten Sandburg is quickly sucked into this couple's twisted nightmare.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Poachers
1997-10-01

While Captain Banks, Blair, and Jim are fishing together they stumble across a poaching ring that's hooked up with a powerful Chinese gangster named Ho Ng.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: The Inside Man
1997-10-15

Using his sentinel powers, Jim saves Edward, the grandson of Mafia don Dominick Lazar, from drowning. When Don Dominick himself thanks Jim for his efforts, he decides to use this opportunity to get on the inside of the city's organized crime world.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Vendetta
1997-10-29

After a minor car accident and heated argument with the driver, Dan Freeman, Jim Ellison finds that this unbalanced man has targeted him for a full-blown vendetta.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Fool Me Twice
1997-11-05

During a local Amnesty International conference, Ellison and Sandburg are assigned to watch over Genevieve Benet, the outspoken St. Germainian peace activist.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Storm Warning
1997-11-12

Visiting his cousin Rucker on a remote island, Jim learns that people on deserted islands don't always pursue the "natural life." While rescuing a woman named Monique from a storm-tossed boat, a huge bag of heroin surfaces.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Red Ice
1997-11-19

Poet Dimitri Gordienski is killed by a sniper at Cascade's Russian Arts Festival. Captain Banks wants the case resolved quickly before the federal government gets involved.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Dead Certain
1997-11-26

When a dead body falls out of the sky with every bone broken, every organ shattered, and no identification, Ellison and Sandburg know that they are not dealing with an ordinary criminal.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Breaking Ground
1997-12-17

When archaeology student Martin Gillman is buried alive by a cave-in at an excavation site, Ellison and Sandburg suspect foul play. As they unearth vendettas between various members of the archaeological team allusions also surface to hidden treasure buried at the site.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Prisoner X
1998-01-14

Jim Ellison agrees to go undercover as an inmate in Starkville Prison to investigate a series of suspicious prisoner suicides. He must depend on his thick skin and diplomatic skills as well as his sentinel abilities to navigate through the treacherous world of gangs and dishonest guards within the prison walls.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: The Trance
1998-01-21

When a local Santeria ceremony goes wrong, one man is dead and the only witness is a woman who was deep in a religious trance while she unknowingly watched the murder. Ellison and Sandburg need to enter into Cascade's Little Havana community in order to uncover the killer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Mirror Image
1998-02-11

Jim Ellison can't explain how Warren Chapel, a permanent patient at a maximum-security mental institution, has detailed firsthand knowledge of a string of grisly murders occurring around Cascade.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Finkelman's Folly
1998-02-18

When Captain Banks is injured in a shootout at the Cascade National Bank, Captain Sarah Finkelman steps in as his replacement and steps on some toes. She rubs Ellison and Sandburg the wrong way with her new policy changes and obsessive control.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Sweet Science
1998-02-25

It's guys' night out for Ellison and Sandburg as they watch Sandburg's old buddy, boxer "Sweet" Roy Williams fight a few rounds. Things turn decidedly sour when Sweet Roy winds up dead and all the leads point to his jealous little brother, Jamie.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: Remembrance
1998-03-11

Professor Robert McCain, the Rainier University expert in serial killers, turns up dead and Ellison is forced to re-open a case that dates back to his youth. As a 10-year-old Jim discovered the last known victim of the infamous Country Club Strangler and it's haunted him ever since.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: Love Kills
1998-03-18

Some visiting Buddhist monks start dying in Cascade's Chinatown district and Lila, Jim's old love from his days in Bali, seems to be involved. Jim's investigation is hampered by some overwhelming sensory overloads that all but incapacitate him.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Crossroads
1998-04-22

Ellison, Blair, and Captain Banks are trapped in Clayton Falls when some overzealous military officers quarantine the small town. Apparently, an airborne virus wreaked havoc on the community and now everyone's been ordered to stay in protective custody.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Foreign Exchange
1998-04-29

When the federal mint is targeted for a major heist, Ellison and Sandburg are joined by Megan Conner, a visiting police officer from Australia, as they prepare to apprehend the robbers in the act.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Neighborhood Watch
1998-05-06

Jim's friend Roger Corman, a U.S. Marshall, is killed in a car bombing before he can reveal the name of a corrupt marshall that he's uncovered. Ellison must ferret out the traitor but finds his hands tied when the U.S. Marshalls themselves take over the investigation.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: Night Shift
1998-05-13

When a car comes barreling into the Cascade Police Station in the middle of the night, the Sentinel team finds themselves abruptly thrown into a murder investigation. Initially, their only witnesses are shaken-up but, when an alligator gets loose in the station, everyone goes crazy.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 23: Sentinel Too (1)
1998-05-20

With Ellison having strange visions of jaguars and a series of superhumanly performed thefts occurring around the city, Blair and Jim suspect that he may not be the only sentinel in town.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1999)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Sentinel Too (2)
1999-02-01

Blair, Banks, and Megan may be Jim's only hope of overcoming the superhuman stalemate and returning Cascade to a one sentinel town.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Murder 101
1999-02-08

It appears that Brad Ventriss and Suzanne Nadine, two students in Blair's anthropology class, are engaged in some extracurricular activities that aren't listed in any of the college handbooks.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Four Point Shot
1999-02-15

Ellison knows that the city is in for trouble when Garrett Kincaid, the leader of the Sunrise Patriots militia group, escapes from prison. While Jim tracks the escaped convict, Captain Banks, Daryl Banks, and Blair Sandburg attend a Cascade Jaguars' basketball game.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Dead End on Blank Street
1999-02-22

When Internal Affairs accuses him of stealing money captured in local drug busts, Ellison finds that during this case he's forced to answer the hard questions instead of asking them.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: The Waiting Room
1999-03-01

A present day murder leads to a revelation that may be able to finally clear up a 45 year old murder, and vindicate the victim and the boy (now a troubled, haunted man) who saw it happen. And Jim discovers a new ability.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: The Real Deal
1999-05-10

When retired television actor Vince Deal suspects that one of his friends has been murdered he enlists the help of Jim Ellison.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Most Wanted
1999-05-17

Professional thief Harry wants to see his daughter and grandson one last time, but his position on the FBI's Most Wanted list makes that difficult - especially when another thief is using his MO and has killed two cops during a job.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg
1999-05-24

When Blair's mother Naomi secretly submits her son's Sentinel thesis paper to a publisher, Jim discovers that being famous can be detrimental to your health. While Jim and Blair protect a local union leader named Jack Bartley from attempts on his life, information from Blair's paper is leaked to the press and Ellison is caught in the middle of a media frenzy.

Runtime: 45 min

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