

Season 4 • Episode 8
LatestWhen 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.
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.
Acting
Burgi and Maggart's unlikely chemistry carries everything.
Production
Vancouver standing in for every American city imaginable.
Writing
Mythology episodes shine; filler is gloriously unhinged.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show was cancelled after season 3, then fan campaigns literally resurrected it for a fourth season—only for UPN to burn off episodes in a dead summer slot.
Blair's character was revolutionary for 90s TV—a male academic who wasn't mocked, whose knowledge actually mattered, and who formed a deep emotional bond with a hyper-masculine cop without either being 'fixed.'