The Sentinel
From left to right: Simon Banks, Jim Ellison & Blair Sandburg
Format	Science fiction, Drama
Run time	approx. 45 min (per episode)
Creator(s)	Danny Bilson Paul De Meo
Starring	Richard Burgi Garett Maggart Bruce A. Young Kelly Curtis
Country	United States
Network	UPN
Original run	March 26, 1996 – May 24, 1999
No. of episodes	65

The Sentinel was a television series that aired on UPN in the United States from 1996 to 1999. It premiered on March 26, 1996 and ran for 65 episodes (three and a half seasons). Image File history File links The_Sentinel_cast. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Drama is a term generally used to refer to a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. ... Richard Burgi (Born July 30, 1958) is an actor with an extensive and varied filmography in television and film. ... Garett Maggart (born 24 May 1969) is an American actor. ... Kelly Lee Curtis (born June 17, 1956 in Santa Monica, California) is the eldest child of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh and the sister of actress Jamie Lee Curtis. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) is a television network in the United States, owned by Viacom Inc. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) is a television network in the United States, owned by Viacom Inc. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Plot & Characters

Jim Ellison was an U.S. Army Ranger that spent 18 months in the Peruvian jungle after his unit was killed. During this time, he developed hyperactive senses that came online five years later, when he was a detective in Cascade PD's Major Crimes Unit. When he goes to the hospital to see a doctor, he finds instead Blair Sandburg, an anthropologist from Rainier University that tells him that he's a Sentinel. In ancient tribes, Sentinels protected the village. For Jim, Cascade is his village. Blair has been studying Sentinel mythology for years, but he never found before a person with all five senses enhanced, a true Sentinel. Official force name 75th Ranger Regiment Rangers Other names Airborne Rangers Army Rangers U.S. Army Rangers Branch U.S. Army Chain of Command USASOC Description Special Operations Force, rapidly deployable light infantry force. ... Jungle refers usually to a forest. ... Senses are the physiological methods of perception. ... See Anthropology. ... The word mythology (from the Greek μυϑολογία mythología, from μυϑολογειν mythologein to relate myths, from μυϑος mythos, meaning a narrative, and λογος logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and...

Blair helps Jim control his senses and joins Jim as a police observer. To the surprise of many people, this unlikely partnership works and together they'll fight against crime in the streets of Cascade.

Jim's hyperactive senses mean he can see beyond what others see, even in the dark, and with more detail; hear sounds that are farther than normal range or too low for anybody else; sense what nobody else can with taste, touch and smell, in short becoming a walking forensic lab. But Jim's powers have a drawback: if he concentrates too strongly in one sense, he could "zone out", a kind of catatonic state. Part of Blair's job is preventing the zone outs. Visual perception is one of the senses, consisting of the ability to detect light and interpret (see) it as the perception known as sight or naked eye vision. ... Hearing, or audition, is one of the traditional five senses, and refers to the ability to detect sound. ... Taste is one of the most common and fundamental of the senses of animals. ... Touching is having or getting a zero distance; in geometry it refers especially to a tangent line or curve (cf. ... Olfaction, the sense of odor (smell), is the detection of chemicals dissolved in air (or, by animals that breathe water, in water). ... Forensics or forensic science is the application of science to questions which are of interest to the legal system. ... Catatonia is a severe psychiatric and medical condition, characterized by, in catatonic stupor, a general absence of motor activity, and, in catatonic excitement, violent, hyperactive behavior directed at oneself or others but with no visible purpose. ...

The only person who knows Jim's secret, apart from Blair, is his captain and friend, Simon Banks.

Cancellation

The Sentinel was cancelled after 3 seasons by UPN, with the last episode being a big cliffhanger with Blair's life in the balance. An intense fan campaign convinced UPN to give the series a further half a season to end the series properly. Fan can mean the following: enthusiast or fanatic air-movement device This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Cast

• Det. Jim Ellison - Richard Burgi
• Blair Sandburg - Garett Maggart
• Capt. Simon Banks - Bruce A. Young
• Lt. Carolyn Plummer - Kelly Curtis (season 1)

Richard Burgi (Born July 30, 1958) is an actor with an extensive and varied filmography in television and film. ... Garett Maggart (born 24 May 1969) is an American actor. ... Kelly Lee Curtis (born June 17, 1956 in Santa Monica, California) is the eldest child of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh and the sister of actress Jamie Lee Curtis. ...

Recurring

• Megan Connor - Anna Galvin (1998-1999)
• Chief Joel Taggert - Ken Earl
• Det. Brown - Henri Brown
• Det. Rafe - Ryf Van Rij

External links

• The Sentinel at the Internet Movie Database