A BRIEF SENTINEL EPISODE GUIDE
NOTE: this episode guide has been compiled by Katherine A. Ring, and will be updated as regularly as RL permits. The capsule descriptions are from TV Guide Magazine (San Diego Cox Cable Edition). Original airdates are for San Diego and Los Angeles, CA, and may be different for other areas, depending on whether or not you get it on Wednesdays like we do! Check out TV Guide's website at: TV GUIDE
SEASON TWO
TS201: FLIGHT
As the second season opens, Simon and his son find that the Peruvian camp where they're
staying is actually a drug lab. Then, when they try to flee, Simon's captured.
Written By: Gail Morgan Hickman
Directed By: Danny Bilson
Airdate: 09/04/96
FAVORITE QUOTE: "I got something in my pants, man." (Blair, to Jim, to which
Jim replies, "How exciting." -- it was a lizard that had found its way into
Blair's trousers when he was sliding down a jungle slope).
TS202: OUT OF THE PAST
Jim and Blair try to protect a female pop star from a deranged prison escapee who's stalking
her. But the moment they're not watching, she mysteriously takes off.
Teleplay By: David Newman & Gail Morgan Hickman
Story By: Brad Markowitz
Directed By: Bruce Bilson
Airdate: 09/11/96
FAVORITE QUOTE: "You've got the attention span of a gerbil!" (Blair, to
Jim,
when Jim won't sit still long enough to try one of Blair's sensory-control
ideas).
TS203: DEEP WATER
Jim faces suspension when his gun and a kidnapping victim's body are found in a car
belonging to his missing partner, who's thought to have made off with the ransom.
Written By: Harold Apter
Directed By: Bruce Bilson
Airdate: 09/18/96
TS204: REUNION
When Simon returns home for a high-school reunion and his friend Peggy is slain with his
gun, he fears he's being framed for murder by an old rival -- who's now the local sheriff.
Teleplay By: Harold Apter & Steven Baum
Story By: Stephen A. Miller
Directed By: Greg Beeman
Airdate: 09/25/96
FAVORITE QUOTE: "No, we're not lost. We're just forty miles in the wrong
direction, that's all." (Blair, to Jim).
TS205: PAYBACK
Despite a seasoned cop's efforts to help avert a violent gang war, one of the leaders dies;
and
the rival gang's lady lawyer is the main suspect -- even after Jim discovers she works for the FBI.
Written By: Peter Lance
Directed By: William Gereghty
Airdate: 10/02/96
TS206: TRUE CRIME
A TV cop show decides to shadow Jim while he investigates a string of bank robberies, but
when it seems the thieves have an informant, Jim wonders whose side the crew is on.
Written By: Daniel Levine
Directed By: Tony Westman
Airdate: 10/09/96
TS207: ICE MAN
Jim and Blair play bodyguard to a med student working as a prostitute after she witnesses the
murder of her pimp by an international terrorist who's hunting down one of her clients.
Written By: Paul B. Margolis
Directed By: Tim Van Patten
Airdate: 10/30/96
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Come on Darwin, you need a cold shower?" (Jim, to Blair,
when
Blair is...distracted by some exotic dancers).
TS208: THE RIG
Jim and Blair are sent on-board an oil rig to investigate a diver's murder; and when an ex-con
is found to be part of the crew, Jim figures he's found the killer. But the duo must act fast to
prove the theory because they're next on the list of targets.
Teleplay By: Harv Zimmel & Gail Morgan Hickman
Story By: Harv Zimmel
Directed By: Danny Bilson
Airdate: 11/06/96
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: We catch a glimpse of just how difficult Jim (and his
"house rules") can be to live with, down to color-coded Tupperware for
leftovers (Jim's in blue, Blair's in red).
TS209: SPARE PARTS
Blair is the key to a plan to catch car thieves, but when his mom finds out how dangerous the
job is -- by following him late one night -- she begs him to back out of it.
Written By: Harold Apter
Directed By: Paul Abascal
Airdate: 11/13/96
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Please, don't. The memory is already too painful."
(Simon,
to Blair, when Blair tries to thank him for telling Naomi that Blair is a
part
of the team and that he trusts him). This episode is full of favorite
quotes,
so it was very hard to pick only one.
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: We meet Blair's mother, Naomi Sandburg, and learn
Blair doesn't know who his father is.
TS210: SECOND CHANCE
A warlord kidnaps a woman in order to get her father's money; but when Jim
and
Blair discover that the two are in cahoots, the thug is forced to take a new
hostage -- Blair.
Written By: John Vorhaus
Directed By: Bruce Bilson
Airdate: 11/20/96
RECURRING CHARACTER: This is the second episode with Maya Carasco (Blair's
love interest from TS208 - LOVE AND GUNS).
TS211: BLACK OR WHITE
A bomb expert is brought to Cascade to fill in for Taggert during the probe
of a racist organization suspected of bombing black churches -- but the expert
soon becomes a suspect.
Written By: Peter Lance
Directed By: William Gereghty
Airdate: 11/27/96
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Technically, B.S. is a form of male bonding." (Blair,
speaking of his habitual "embellishing" of the "totally overrated" truth).
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: We finally learn Taggert's first name -- it's Joel.
TS212: BLIND MAN'S BLUFF
While working undercover to nab the makers of a deadly new drug, Jim gets the
substance in his eyes and is blinded. But with Blair's help, he continues
the
investigation and confronts the dealers.
Written By: Daniel Levine
Directed By: Tony Westman
Airdate: 01/08/97
TS213: HEAR NO EVIL
After a physical exam dramatically enhances his hearing, suspicious sounds
lead
Jim to a murder scene -- where the victim is a narcotics cop killed by his
colleagues. But when Jim brings the case to an internal-affairs
investigator,
she refuses to give him any help.
Written By: Harold Apter
Directed By: John Connor
Airdate: 01/15/97
TS214: LIGHT MY FIRE
Jim and Blair work with an arson investigator to find out who's been setting warehouse fires,
but Jim has her taken off the case when her father becomes the suspect.
Written By: David Thoreau
Directed By: Scott Brazil
Airdate: 02/05/97
TS215: SECRET
Blair gets suspicious when Jim doesn't return from a meeting with an Army buddy, but before
he can begin to search for his missing partner, he finds himself targeted for murder.
Teleplay By: Harold Apter & David Balkan
Story By: Gail Morgan Hickman
Directed By: Bruce Bilson
Airdate: 02/12/97
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: we learn more about the helicopter crash in Peru, and we
discover there is a fire escape off of Blair's room.
TS216: DEAD DROP
An extortionist traps four hostages -- including Blair -- in an elevator and vows to drop it at
five-floor intervals until he gets $5 million from the building's owner.
Written By: Peter Lance
Directed By: Danny Bilson
Airdate: 02/19/97
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Simon, is it just me, or is Cascade the most dangerous city in
America?" (Jim, to Simon, as they enter the building where the hostages are being held).
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: Blair claims his minor was in Psychology, and we learn
he knows his way around a blow torch.
TS217: RED DUST
Jim finds a radioactive jewelry charm while investigating a Russian Mafia murder. But the
charm's owner flees when Jim and Blair track him down to warn him of the danger.
Teleplay By: David Balkan
Story By: Ann Powell & Peter Lance
Directed By: William Gereghty
Airdate: 02/26/97
TS218: SMART ALEC
When a college's maintenance man dies from spider bites, Jim and Blair try to determine
whether his death might have been murder.
Written By: John Vorhaus
Directed By: Tony Westman
Airdate: 03/12/97
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: We learn that Blair has been taking college courses since
he was sixteen, and in this episode, Blair's beloved Corvair is dealt its mortal blow.
TS219: PRIVATE EYES
When Blair's mom comes to town with a psychic friend, a distraught woman recruits him to
find her kidnapped child, but Jim questions the clairvoyant's capabilities.
Written By: Harold Apter
Directed By: Bruce Bilson
Airdate: 03/26/97
TS220: VANISHING ACT
Jim tries to reunite a family when he learns that a wrongfully imprisoned man staged his own
death to protect his wife and son.
Teleplay By: David H. Balkan & David L. Newman
Story By: Daniel Levine
Directed By: William Gereghty
Airdate: 04/09/97
TS221: PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
After an armored car overturns, millions of dollars disappear and Jim, who suspects the
incident wasn't accidental, tries to get a young witness to talk.
Written By: David L. Newman
Directed By: John Connor
Airdate: 04/30/97
TS222: SURVIVAL
With Simon hostage, a cop-killing fugitive sets out to recover money he stole from a bank.
But as he makes his escape, he winds up with others -- besides Jim -- on his tail.
Written By: Howard Chaykin
Directed By: James Marshall
Airdate: 05/07/97
FAVORITE QUOTE: a tie -- I just couldn't decide between these two!
"I wouldn't worry about Ellison. He was a Ranger." -- FBI Agent Mara
"Lone or space?" -- Sheriff Tappen (in response to Jim insisting on searching for Simon in a
totally different direction than the Sheriff -- the Sheriff is worried they'll have to rescue Jim -- and
Blair -- next) **AND**
"Cold and wet is my world." (Blair, to the Universe At Large, after continuous rain and
having to jump off a waterfall, and then not being able to start a campfire).
TS223: HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER
Jim suspects foul play when a racetrack owner and a construction foreman are found dead,
but the evidence points to Jim's brother as the main suspect.
Written By: Harold Apter
Directed By: Bruce Bilson
Airdate: 05/14/97
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: we meet Jim's younger brother Steven, and learn the
brothers Ellison were raised by their father, because their mother "was gone." Jim does not clarify
if she is dead or merely out of the picture (divorced, etc.), but the implication is that she is dead.
This contradicts something Jim said in TS102 - SIEGE; he told Simon that "even my mother
called me on this one" when he was trying to convince his captain to sign off on Blair's observer
paperwork.
TS224: SLEEPING BEAUTY
Jim and Blair try to protect a mute woman from thugs who, Jim thinks, may be connected to
a car accident that put her in a coma and killed her parents.
Written By: Gail Morgan Hickman
Directed By: Gail Morgan Hickman
Airdate: 05/21/97
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: we see Blair's "new" car -- I don't know enough about
cars to say what it was, other than dark-colored and not a spring chicken. I read somewhere that
someone thought it might be a 1962 Volvo. Personally, I *liked* the Corvair!
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: 2-HOUR SENTINEL MOVIE:
Airdate: August 27, 1997
This was a combination of the Pilot (Switchman) and the second episode (Siege).
Note from the Episode Guide compiler:
I will continue to update this episode guide with Favorite Quotes, Important
Developments and the like as Real Life permits. So stay tuned. :-)
Katherine A. Ring
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This page was last updated January 12th, 1997