The Sentinel - In the Hunter's Eye

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Television series
German title The Sentinel - In the Hunter's Eye
Original title The Sentinel
Country of production United States , Canada
original language English
Year (s) 1996-1999
length 45 minutes
Episodes 65 in 4 seasons
genre Action series , crime series
idea Danny Bilson ,
Paul De Meo
music James Newton Howard
First broadcast March 26, 1996 (USA) on UPN
German-language
first broadcast		 January 14, 1997 on ProSieben
occupation
synchronization

The Sentinel is an American - Canadian television series with four seasons and a total of 65 episodes. It ran in America from 1996 to 1999 on UPN and is about the super-sensual detective James Ellison.

action

The US Army ranger James Ellison loses his entire unit in the jungles of Peru and has to survive alone for eighteen months. After his rescue, he switched to the police in the American town of Cascade.

Five years later, strange powers are awakening in Ellison; his five senses are suddenly sharpened beyond measure; he hears, sees, tastes, smells and feels better than anyone else around him. The anthropologist Blair Sandburg from Rainer University explains: there has always been a protector in the tribal associations of prehistoric times, the "Sentinel", who was endowed with expanded senses and had the task of protecting his community.

Ellison becomes the Sentinel of the city of Cascade and fights the crime with Sandburg and his Captain Simon Banks, the only other person who knows his secret.

characters

James "Jim" Ellison
is a former Army Ranger and Police Officer. Through his experiences in the Peruvian jungle, he has a supernatural perception and extremely keen senses, which are often helpful in solving crimes. Sometimes, however, if he concentrates one of his senses too much, he falls into a kind of coma that protects his brain from the overload.
Blair sand castle
is an anthropologist and researched the legends of the "Sentinels" at Rainer University until he met Jim Ellison. He then joins the Cascade Police Department to monitor and help Jim.
Simon Banks
is the African-American captain of Jim Ellison's department and, besides Blair, the only one who is informed about Jim's special abilities. It is not infrequently he who has to hide this from the public.

Cast and German voice actors

Role name actor German voice actor
James Ellison Richard Burgi Joachim Siebenschuh
Blair sand castle Garett Maggart Rainer Doering
Simon Banks Bruce A. Young Jan Spitzer
Joel Taggart Ken Earl Tilo Schmitz
Naomi sand castle Leigh Taylor-Young Gertie Honeck

background

The Sentinel ended in a cliffhanger by season three . In an elaborate campaign, the US fans of the series managed to convince the broadcaster UPN to turn off a fourth, shorter season that brought the open storylines and the entire series to a conclusive end.

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