The Sentinel (TV series)

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).

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's 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.

Related Topics:
U.S. Army Ranger - Peruvian - Jungle - Sense - Anthropologist - Mythology

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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.

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Jim hyperactive senses means he can see beyond 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.

Related Topics:
See - Hear - Taste - Touch - Smell - Forensic - Catatonic

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

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