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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.
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The Sentinel premiered March 20, 1996. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
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, crew and production details
Richard BurgiJim Ellison
Garett MaggartBlair Sandburg
Bruce A. YoungSimon Banks
Kelly CurtisCarolyn Plummer
Anna GalvinMegan Connor
Kendall CrossRhonda
Leigh Taylor-YoungNaomi Sandburg
Jeri RyanAlexis Barnes
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Paramount TelevisionUnited StatesWatch options above are for the show and may vary by season or episode.
Episode 1
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.
Directed by Danny BilsonWritten by Gail Morgan HickmanGuest stars Kendall Cross, Kai Wulff, Raoul Max Trujillo, Eli Gabay, Megan Leitch, Oscar Goncalves, Marites Pineda, Michael Sicoly
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Episode 2
Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.
Directed by Danny BilsonWritten by Gail Morgan Hickman, David NewmanGuest stars Valarie Pettiford, Mark Pellegrino, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly, JR Bourne, Mitchell Kosterman, Larry Musser
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Episode 3
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.
Directed by Bruce BilsonWritten by Harold ApterGuest stars Joe Cortese, Dick O'Neill, Katherine LaNasa, Lori Triolo, Michael Dobson, Kelsa Kinsly, Helena Yea, Jamie Rose
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Episode 4
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.
Directed by Greg BeemanWritten by Steven Baum, Stephen A. Miller, Harold ApterGuest stars Michael McGrady, Sydney Walsh, Lou Myers, Réal Andrews, Garry Chalk, Jason Gray-Stanford, Nicole Oliver, Danny Wattley
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Episode 5
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.
Directed by William GereghtyWritten by Peter LanceGuest stars Henri Brown, Mia Korf, Leon Russom, Eidan Hanzei, Barry Pepper, Stefan Arngrim, Derek Hamilton, Marilyn Norry
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Episode 6
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."
Directed by Tony WestmanWritten by Dan LevineGuest stars Elizabeth Mitchell, Scott Cleverdon, Walton Goggins, Jackson Cole, John Destry, Lance Gibson, Kavan Smith, John Tench
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Episode 7
Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.
Directed by Tim Van PattenWritten by Paul B. MargolisGuest stars Meredith Salenger, Nino Caratozzolo, Stephen Dimopoulos, Kate Luyben, Laurie Murdoch, Udo Kier
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Episode 8
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.
Directed by Danny BilsonWritten by Harv Zimmel, Gail Morgan Hickman, Harv ZimmelGuest stars Tim Thomerson, Stephanie Niznik, Bo Jackson, Dmitri S. Boudrine, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Carlo Rota, Dean Wray
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Episode 9
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.
Directed by Paul AbascalWritten by Harold ApterGuest stars Kathleen McClellan, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jay Acovone, James Crescenzo
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Episode 10
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.
Directed by Bruce BilsonWritten by John VorhausGuest stars Isabella Camil, Carlos Montilla, Geno Silva, Peter Bryant, Bob Morrisey, Fabricio Santin, Dan Zukovic, Tony Perez
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Episode 11
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.
Directed by William GereghtyWritten by Peter LanceGuest stars Kimberly Elise, Kirk B.R. Woller, Michael Kopsa, Charles Andre, Mark Holden, Eric Schneider, Brendan Stitchman, Ken Earl
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Episode 12
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.
Directed by Tony WestmanWritten by Dan LevineGuest stars Ryf Van Rij, Henri Brown, Rebecca Rigg, Scott Haven, Robert LaSardo, Paul Raskin, Ben Immanuel, Garry Davey
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Episode 13
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.
Directed by John J. ConnorWritten by Harold ApterGuest stars Jamie Rose, David Allen Brooks, Charles Rahi Chun, Peter LaCroix, Angela Moore, Peter Mustapic, Mylène Pilutik, Brett Stone
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Episode 14
An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.
Directed by Scott BrazilWritten by David ThoreauGuest stars Ryf Van Rij, Tom Mason, Yvette Nipar, Bill Cross, Alicia Coppola, Duane Dickinson, Don MacKay
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Episode 15
Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.
Directed by Bruce BilsonWritten by Harold Apter, David H. Balkan, Gail Morgan HickmanGuest stars Ryf Van Rij, Alicia Coppola, Steven Ford, Alan Toy, Kate Hodge, Garvin Cross, Brian Jensen, David Palffy
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Episode 16
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.
Directed by Danny BilsonWritten by Peter LanceGuest stars Rex Smith, J.A. Preston, Clarence Clemons, Kimberly Huie, Tom Butler, Gordon Currie, Marc Baur, Lynda Boyd
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Episode 17
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.
Directed by William GereghtyWritten by Ann Powell, Peter Lance, David H. BalkanGuest stars Levan Uchaneishvili, Christian Svensson, Natasha Ivanova, Gillian Barber, Terry Arrowsmith, Gavin Buhr, Bill Croft, Donald Fong
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Episode 18
Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.
Directed by Tony WestmanWritten by John VorhausGuest stars Ryf Van Rij, Tamlyn Tomita, Myles Ferguson, Brian Cousins, Tom Heaton, Gabrielle Miller, Ron Robinson, Charles Siegel
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Episode 19
During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."
Directed by Bruce BilsonWritten by Harold ApterGuest stars Leigh Taylor-Young, Raymond O'Connor, Ever Carradine, Suki Kaiser, Katie Stuart, Tom Cavanagh, Dean Aylesworth, Rick Burgess
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Episode 20
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.
Directed by William GereghtyWritten by David Newman, Dan Levine, David H. BalkanGuest stars Alicia Coppola, Vincent Irizarry, Robert Cicchini, Sandra Ferens, Edward Albert, Ian Brown, Addison Ridge
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Episode 21
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.
Directed by John J. ConnorWritten by David NewmanGuest stars Ryf Van Rij, Sullivan Walker, Gerard Plunkett, Sal Landi, Jay Brazeau, Lamont Bentley, Anthony Harrison, Peter Flemming
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Episode 22
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.
Directed by James MarshallWritten by Howard ChaykinGuest stars John Pyper-Ferguson, Deena-Marie Consiglio, Duncan Fraser, William MacDonald, Anne Farquhar, Marshall R. Teague
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Episode 23
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.
Directed by Bruce BilsonWritten by Harold ApterGuest stars Ryf Van Rij, Henri Brown, Tyler Layton, Bruce Kirby, George Touliatos, Paul Batten, Darcy Laurie, Patrick Stevenson
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Episode 24
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.
Directed by Gail Morgan HickmanWritten by Gail Morgan HickmanGuest stars Ryf Van Rij, Tamara Braun, Edward Edwards, Derek Webster, Cory Dagg, Ian Marsh, Rebecca Philpott, Kurt Max Runte
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