The Best Episodes of The Sentinel Season 1
Every episode of The Sentinel Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Sentinel 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.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Sentinel" season 1 is "The Switchman", rated 8/10 from 356 user votes. It was directed by Danny Bilson and written by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo. "The Switchman" aired on 3/20/1996 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Siege".
8.0/10 356 votes#1 - The Switchman
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/20/1996
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
Writer: Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo
7.7/10 47 votes#2 - Siege
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/27/1996
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
7.2/10 41 votes#3 - The Killers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/3/1996
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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
7.4/10 41 votes#4 - The Debt
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/10/1996
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
7.1/10 37 votes#5 - Cypher
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/24/1996
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.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Laurence Frank
7.7/10 36 votes#6 - Night Train
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/1/1996
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
7.4/10 32 votes#7 - Rogue
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/8/1996
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
6.9/10 32 votes#8 - Love and Guns
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/15/1996
After stopping an armored car heist, Ellison is struck by the high-tech weaponry at the criminals' disposal.
Director: Tim Van Patten
Writer: Bruce Kalish
7.4/10 35 votes#9 - Attraction
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/22/1996
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
7.7/10 31 votes#10 - Vow of Silence
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/17/1996
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