The WORST episodes of The Sentinel

Every episode of The Sentinel ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Sentinel!

Jim Ellison was a U.S. Army Ranger who 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 Department. When he goes to the hospital to see a doctor, he finds instead Blair Sandburg, an anthropologist from Rainier University who 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. 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 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. The only person who knows Jim's secret, apart from Blair, is his captain and friend, Simon Banks, and in the last half season, so does Megan Connor.

Last Updated: 10/8/2025Network: UPNStatus: Ended
The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg
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#1 - The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/24/1999

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 Jack Bartley, information from Blair's paper is leaked and Ellison is in the middle of a media frenzy. Unless someone can diffuse the situation, the Sentinel will be forced to leave the city of Cascade -- forever.

Directors: Danny Bilson
Night Train
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#2 - 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 to the courthouse in Cascade.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harold Apter
Rogue
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#3 - 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 designed to distract the attention while a canister of the Ebola virus was being stolen from the hazardous materials lab.

Directors: Mike Vejar
Love and Guns
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#4 - 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.

Writer: Bruce Kalish
Reunion
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#5 - Reunion

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/1996

When Blair and Jim join Captain Banks at his 20-year high school reunion the Captain's old sweetheart, Peggy Anderson, turns up dead with Banks her apparent murderer.

Ice Man
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#6 - Ice Man

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1996

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

The Rig
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#7 - The Rig

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1996

When employees start dying aboard the North Star Five oilrig, Jim and Blair conclude that ex-con Truck Brower is their most obvious suspect.

Directors: Danny Bilson
Writer: Harv Zimmel
Spare Parts
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#8 - Spare Parts

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1996

Ellison and Sandburg get a chance to hone their driving skills when car thieves set up shop on the streets of Cascade.

Directors: Paul Abascal
Writer: Harold Apter
Second Chance
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#9 - Second Chance

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1996

When Francisco Rivero, an ex-associate of Hector Carasco, kidnaps Carasco's daughter and uses as blackmail for the fortune, Ellison and Sandburg join forces with her Uncle Gustavo to bring her home.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: John Vorhaus
Black or White
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#10 - Black or White

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1996

When a series of explosions level black churches throughout Cascade, Ellison, Sandburg and Captain Banks uncover the racist influences of the White Aryan Resistance.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
Writer: Peter Lance
Blind Man's Bluff
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#11 - Blind Man's Bluff

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1997

Ellison and Sandburg trace the distribution of Cascade's new drug to a dive where the narcotic wreaks havoc with Ellison's enhanced senses.

Directors: Tony Westman
Hear No Evil
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#12 - Hear No Evil

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1997

Ellison sees undercover police detective Brent Marten thrown to death from a police helicopter.

Directors: John Connor
Writer: Harold Apter
Light My Fire
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#13 - Light My Fire

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1997

An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.

Directors: Scott Brazil
Secret
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#14 - Secret

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1997

Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Storm Warning
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#15 - Storm Warning

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1997

Visiting his cousin Rucker on a remote island, Jim learns that people on deserted islands don't always pursue the ""natural life."" After rescuing a woman named Monique from a boat, they find out, that she is the ex-girlfriend of a drug dealer Enrique Guzman.

Directors: Oley Sassone
Writer: Peter Lance
The Waiting Room
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#16 - The Waiting Room

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/1/1999

When Blair and Ellison investigate a recent murder that occurred in a haunted house, it's obvious that Jim's Sentinel powers aren't the only paranormal phenomena operating in Cascade.

Directors: Michael Lacoe
Writer: Harold Apter
Dead End on Blank Street
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#17 - Dead End on Blank Street

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/1999

When Internal Affairs accuses Ellison of stealing money captured in drug busts, he's forced to answer the questions instead of asking them.

Directors: Don Kurt
Four Point Shot
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#18 - Four Point Shot

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/15/1999

Ellison knows that the city is in for trouble when Garrett Kincaid, the leader of the Sunrise Patriots militia group, escapes from prison, taking the entire Jaguar basketball stadium hostage.

Directors: Danny Bilson
Writer: Harold Apter
Murder 101
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#19 - Murder 101

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/1999

It appears that two students in Blair's anthropology class are engaged in extracurricular activities that aren't listed in any of the college handbooks.

Directors: Don Kurt
Writer: Ron Taylor
Sentinel Too (2)
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#20 - Sentinel Too (2)

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/1999

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

Night Shift
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#21 - Night Shift

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/1998

When a car comes barreling into the Cascade Police Station in the middle of the night, the Sentinel team finds themselves thrown into a murder investigation.

Crossroads
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#22 - Crossroads

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/1998

Ellison, Blair, and Captain Banks are trapped in Clayton Falls when some overzealous military officers quarantine the small town, after an airborne virus is in the air. Sensing something more insidious, Ellison and Sandburg attempt to uncover the real truth.

Directors: John Connor
Writer: Rick Husky
Remembrance
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#23 - Remembrance

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/1998

Professor Robert McCain, a university expert in serial killers, turns up dead and Ellison is forced to re-open a case that dates back to his youth.

Directors: Dick Van Patten
Finkelman's Folly
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#24 - Finkelman's Folly

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1998

When Captain Banks is injured in a shootout at the Cascade National Bank, Captain Sarah Finkelman is his replacement replacement. Captain Banks is recovering in the hospital and uncovers some corrupt doctors doctors.

Directors: Michael Lacoe
Writer: Harold Apter
Mirror Image
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#25 - Mirror Image

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1998

Jim Ellison can't explain how Warren Chapel, a permanent patient at a maximum-security mental institution, has detailed firsthand knowledge of murders occurring around Cascade. Sandburg goes undercover as a patient.

Directors: Rich Tabach
Writer: Tony Westman