Danny Bilson
Director
The Sentinel (1996)
Season 1
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.
Released March 20, 1996
Episode 45 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
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Production Companies: Pet Fly Productions, Paramount Television
Network: UPN
7.0
S1E1 - The Switchman
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.
March 20, 1996, midnight
S1E2 - Siege
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.
March 27, 1996, midnight
S1E3 - The Killers
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.
April 3, 1996, midnight
S1E4 - The Debt
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.
April 10, 1996, midnight
S1E5 - Cypher
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.
April 24, 1996, midnight
S1E6 - Night Train
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.
May 1, 1996, midnight
S1E7 - Rogue
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.
May 8, 1996, midnight
S1E8 - Love and Guns
After stopping an armored car heist, Ellison is struck by the high-tech weaponry at the criminals' disposal.
May 15, 1996, midnight
S1E9 - Attraction
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.
May 22, 1996, midnight
S1E10 - Vow of Silence
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.
July 17, 1996, midnight
Network: UPN
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 2925 min.
Released: March 20, 1996
Last Air Date: May 24, 1999, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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