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The Best Episodes of The Sentinel

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Sentinel Season 4 Episode 8 - The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg
    8.2/10(31 votes)

    #1 - The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg

    S4:E8

    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.

    Director:Danny Bilson
    Writer:Bill Froehlich

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  2. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 1 - The Switchman
    8.1/10(360 votes)

    #2 - The Switchman

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Danny Bilson
    Writers:Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo

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  3. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 2 - Siege
    8.0/10(50 votes)

    #3 - Siege

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Danny Bilson
    Writer:David Newman

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  4. The Sentinel Season 3 Episode 8 - Storm Warning
    8.0/10(28 votes)

    #4 - Storm Warning

    S3:E8

    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.

    Director:Oley Sassone
    Writer:Peter Lance

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  5. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 6 - Night Train
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #5 - Night Train

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Harold Apter

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  6. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 10 - Vow of Silence
    7.8/10(34 votes)

    #6 - Vow of Silence

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Jeffrey Reiner
    Writer:Bruce Kalish

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  7. The Sentinel Season 4 Episode 5 - The Waiting Room
    7.8/10(24 votes)

    #7 - The Waiting Room

    S4:E5

    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.

    Director:Michael Lacoe
    Writer:Harold Apter

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  8. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 1 - Flight
    7.7/10(32 votes)

    #8 - Flight

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Danny Bilson
    Writer:Gail Morgan Hickman

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  9. The Sentinel Season 3 Episode 6 - Vendetta
    7.7/10(25 votes)

    #9 - Vendetta

    S3:E6

    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.

    Director:Tim Van Patten
    Writer:David Thoreau

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  10. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 7 - Rogue
    7.6/10(34 votes)

    #10 - Rogue

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Howard Chaykin

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  11. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 9 - Attraction
    7.6/10(38 votes)

    #11 - Attraction

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Scott Paulin
    Writer:Harold Apter

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  12. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 10 - Second Chance
    7.6/10(28 votes)

    #12 - Second Chance

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:John Vorhaus

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  13. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 4 - The Debt
    7.5/10(44 votes)

    #13 - The Debt

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Gus Trikonis
    Writer:Steven Baum

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  14. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 19 - Private Eyes
    7.5/10(27 votes)

    #14 - Private Eyes

    S2:E19

    During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Harold Apter

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  15. The Sentinel Season 3 Episode 5 - The Inside Man
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    #15 - The Inside Man

    S3:E5

    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.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Harv Zimmel

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  16. The Sentinel Season 3 Episode 9 - Red Ice
    7.5/10(19 votes)

    #16 - Red Ice

    S3:E9

    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.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Richard Maxwell

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  17. The Sentinel Season 3 Episode 19 - Crossroads
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    #17 - Crossroads

    S3:E19

    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.

    Director:John J. Connor
    Writer:Rick Husky

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  18. The Sentinel Season 3 Episode 23 - Sentinel Too (1)
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #18 - Sentinel Too (1)

    S3:E23

    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.

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:Gail Morgan Hickman

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  19. The Sentinel Season 4 Episode 1 - Sentinel Too (2)
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #19 - Sentinel Too (2)

    S4:E1

    Blair, Banks, and Megan may be Jim's only hope of overcoming the superhuman stalemate and returning Cascade to a one sentinel town.

    Director:Tony Westman
    Writers:David H. Balkan, Gail Morgan Hickman

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  20. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 12 - Blind Man's Bluff
    7.4/10(25 votes)

    #20 - Blind Man's Bluff

    S2:E12

    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.

    Director:Tony Westman
    Writer:Dan Levine

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  21. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 16 - Dead Drop
    7.4/10(26 votes)

    #21 - Dead Drop

    S2:E16

    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.

    Director:Danny Bilson
    Writer:Peter Lance

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  22. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 7 - Ice Man
    7.3/10(30 votes)

    #22 - Ice Man

    S2:E7

    Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.

    Director:Tim Van Patten
    Writer:Paul B. Margolis

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  23. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 9 - Spare Parts
    7.3/10(25 votes)

    #23 - Spare Parts

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Paul Abascal
    Writer:Harold Apter

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  24. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 20 - Vanishing Act
    7.3/10(27 votes)

    #24 - Vanishing Act

    S2:E20

    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.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 23 - His Brother's Keeper
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    #25 - His Brother's Keeper

    S2:E23

    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.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Harold Apter

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg" is the best rated episode of "The Sentinel". It scored 8.2/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by Danny Bilson and written by Bill Froehlich, it aired on 5/24/1999. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Switchman".