TV series

The Sentinel

Name: The Sentinel
Released: 1996
Cast: Richard Burgi, Garett Maggart, Bruce A. Young

1996–1999· 4 seasons· 45 min episodes★ 7.2Ended

On UPN — From Pet Fly Productions · Paramount Television

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Synopsis

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.

Themes

mythology superhuman police detective

Episodes

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E1 The SwitchmanNext upMar 20, 1996 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Kelly Curtis (Carolyn Plummer), Molly Parker (Switchman), Tim Henry (Colonel Winters), Roger Cross (Captain Mathis), William deVry (Master Sergeant), Deryl Hayes (SWAT Sergeant), Maria Herrera (Tour Guide), Jason Furukawa (1st Investigator)
E2 SiegeMar 27, 1996 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Kelly Curtis (Carolyn Plummer), Kendall Cross (Rhonda), Brent Stait (McBride), Susan Bain (Vera), Jarred Blancard (Nolan), Anna Hagan (Governor Matthews), Sonny D.M. Peralez (Goldfeather), Johnny Cuthbert (Walters)
E3 The KillersApr 3, 1996 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Kelly Curtis (Carolyn Plummer), Constance Marie (Beverley Sanchez), Ken Pogue (Mickey O'Toole), Kevin McNulty (Juno's Lawyer), James Parks (Tommy Juno), Mig Macario (Danny Choi), Eric Keenleyside (Ray Kaminski), Susan Astley (Judge Perlman)
E4 The DebtApr 10, 1996 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Kelly Curtis (Carolyn Plummer), Sherman Augustus (Earl Gaines), Robert Wisdom (Lieutenant Williams), Montrose Hagins (Lila Lacroix), Reno Wilson (Tyrell Lang), James Black (Antoine Hollins), Christopher M. Brown (Leron Maxwell), Ken Earl (Joel Taggert)
E5 CypherApr 24, 1996 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Kelly Curtis (Carolyn Plummer), Dennis Christopher (Anthony Bates), Kelly Hu (Christine Hong), Tom Heaton (Ernie Lash), John Maclaren (Priest)
E6 Night TrainMay 1, 1996 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Kelly Curtis (Carolyn Plummer), Brian Markinson (Derek Wilson), Sam Sorbo (Isabel Kane), Shane Kelly (Chambers), Yvonne Campeau (Parker), Gaston Morrison (Shoup), Raimund Stamm (Huge Man), Alf Humphreys (Conductor)
E7 RogueMay 8, 1996 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Kelly Curtis (Carolyn Plummer), Jeff Kaake (Lee Brackett), Elizabeth Sandifer (Sonia Price), Alan Toy (Jack Kelso), Ken Earl (Joel Taggert)
E8 Love and GunsMay 15, 1996 · 45 min
Synopsis
After stopping an armored car heist, Ellison is struck by the high-tech weaponry at the criminals' disposal.
Guest stars: Isabella Camil (Maya Carasco), Fawn Reed (Drennan), Mike Moroff (Vargas), Hiro Kanagawa (Furukawa), Roseanne Hopkins (Blanca), Jed Rees (Sal), Linden Banks (Loeb), Geno Silva (Hector Carasco)
E9 AttractionMay 22, 1996 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Kimberley Kates (Laura McCarthy), Harry Van Gorkum (Ted McCarthy), Jason Carter (Bruce McCarthy), Ingrid Torrance (Calli), Ken Kramer (Miller), Don MacKay (Stein), Jan Bailey Mattia (Forensic Officer), Ken Earl (Joel Taggert)
E10 Vow of SilenceJul 17, 1996 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Brandon Maggart (Brother Marcus), Lawrence Pressman (Brother Jeremy), John Pleshette (Brother Christopher), Trevor White (Brother Timothy), Michael Puttonen (Brother Joseph), Frank C. Turner (Brother Frederick), Robert Rozen (Brother Michael), John R. Taylor (Brother Theodore)