The Sentinel
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.
Seasons
1. The Switchman
Air Date: 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.
2. Siege
Air Date: 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.
3. The Killers
Air Date: 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.
4. The Debt
Air Date: 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.
5. Cypher
Air Date: 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.
6. Night Train
Air Date: 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.
7. Rogue
Air Date: 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.
8. Love and Guns
Air Date: 1996-05-15
After stopping an armored car heist, Ellison is struck by the high-tech weaponry at the criminals' disposal.
9. Attraction
Air Date: 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.
10. Vow of Silence
Air Date: 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.
1. Flight
Air Date: 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.
2. Out of the Past
Air Date: 1996-09-11
Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.
3. Deep Water
Air Date: 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.
4. Reunion
Air Date: 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.
5. Payback
Air Date: 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.
6. True Crime
Air Date: 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."
7. Ice Man
Air Date: 1996-10-30
Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.
8. The Rig
Air Date: 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.
9. Spare Parts
Air Date: 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.
10. Second Chance
Air Date: 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.
11. Black or White
Air Date: 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.
12. Blind Man's Bluff
Air Date: 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.
13. Hear No Evil
Air Date: 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.
14. Light My Fire
Air Date: 1997-02-05
An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.
15. Secret
Air Date: 1997-02-12
Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.
16. Dead Drop
Air Date: 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.
17. Red Dust
Air Date: 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.
18. Smart Alec
Air Date: 1997-03-12
Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.
19. Private Eyes
Air Date: 1997-03-26
During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."
20. Vanishing Act
Air Date: 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.
21. Pennies from Heaven
Air Date: 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.
22. Survival
Air Date: 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.
23. His Brother's Keeper
Air Date: 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.
24. Sleeping Beauty
Air Date: 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.
1. Warriors
Air Date: 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.
2. Three Point Shot
Air Date: 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.
3. The Girl Next Door
Air Date: 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.
4. Poachers
Air Date: 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.
5. The Inside Man
Air Date: 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.
6. Vendetta
Air Date: 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.
7. Fool Me Twice
Air Date: 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.
8. Storm Warning
Air Date: 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.
9. Red Ice
Air Date: 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.
10. Dead Certain
Air Date: 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.
11. Breaking Ground
Air Date: 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.
12. Prisoner X
Air Date: 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.
13. The Trance
Air Date: 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.
14. Mirror Image
Air Date: 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.
15. Finkelman's Folly
Air Date: 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.
16. Sweet Science
Air Date: 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.
17. Remembrance
Air Date: 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.
18. Love Kills
Air Date: 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.
19. Crossroads
Air Date: 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.
20. Foreign Exchange
Air Date: 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.
21. Neighborhood Watch
Air Date: 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.
22. Night Shift
Air Date: 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.
23. Sentinel Too (1)
Air Date: 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.
1. Sentinel Too (2)
Air Date: 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.
2. Murder 101
Air Date: 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.
3. Four Point Shot
Air Date: 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.
4. Dead End on Blank Street
Air Date: 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.
5. The Waiting Room
Air Date: 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.
6. The Real Deal
Air Date: 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.
7. Most Wanted
Air Date: 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.
8. The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg
Air Date: 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.
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Rating
7.1/10
Release Date
1996-03-20
Episodes
65 (4 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Pet Fly Productions
Paramount Television