Series synopsis
The Sentinel is a Canadian drama crime action & adventure television series that premiered on UPN on March 20, 1996. It ended on May 24, 1999. It was created by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo. It stars Richard Burgi, Garett Maggart, Bruce A. Young and Kelly Curtis.
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.
Premise
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.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Richard Burgi as Jim Ellison
- Garett Maggart as Blair Sandburg
- Bruce A. Young as Simon Banks
- Kelly Curtis as Carolyn Plummer
- Anna Galvin as Megan Connor
- Kathleen McClellan as Francine Berry
- Kendall Cross as Rhonda
- Leigh Taylor-Young as Naomi Sandburg
Supporting cast
- Jeri Ryan as Alexis Barnes
- Isabella Camil as Maya Carasco
- Ryf Van Rij as Detective Rafe
- Henri Brown as Detective Brown
- Ben Cardinal as Dan Wolf
- Lisa Akey as Cassie Welles
- Brent Stait as McBride
- Molly Parker as Switchman
- Tim Henry as Colonel Winters
- Roger Cross as Captain Mathis
- William deVry as Master Sergeant
- Deryl Hayes as SWAT Sergeant
Guest cast
- Kathleen McClellan as Francine Berry
- Kendall Cross as Rhonda
- Leigh Taylor-Young as Naomi Sandburg
- Jeri Ryan as Alexis Barnes
- Isabella Camil as Maya Carasco
- Ryf Van Rij as Detective Rafe
- Henri Brown as Detective Brown
- Ben Cardinal as Dan Wolf
- Lisa Akey as Cassie Welles
- Brent Stait as McBride
- Molly Parker as Switchman
- Tim Henry as Colonel Winters
Episodes
This series spans 4 seasons with 65 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 10 | March 20, 1996 | July 17, 1996 |
| Season 2 | 24 | September 4, 1996 | May 21, 1997 |
| Season 3 | 23 | September 10, 1997 | May 20, 1998 |
| Season 4 | 8 | February 1, 1999 | May 24, 1999 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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 |
| 2 |
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 |
| 3 |
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 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Flight 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. |
September 4, 1996 |
| 2 |
Out of the Past Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston. |
September 11, 1996 |
| 3 |
Deep Water 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. |
September 18, 1996 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Warriors 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. |
September 10, 1997 |
| 2 |
Three Point Shot When basketball players on the Cascade Jaguars start turning up dead, Jim must calculate the difference between a good shot and a deadly one. |
September 17, 1997 |
| 3 |
The Girl Next Door 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. |
September 24, 1997 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Sentinel Too (2) Blair, Banks, and Megan may be Jim's only hope of overcoming the superhuman stalemate and returning Cascade to a one sentinel town. |
February 1, 1999 |
| 2 |
Murder 101 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. |
February 8, 1999 |
| 3 |
Four Point Shot 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. |
February 15, 1999 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | UPN |
|---|---|
| First aired | March 20, 1996 |
| Last aired | May 24, 1999 |
| Runtime | 45 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Wednesday at 20:00:00 |