Picks and Pans Review: The Sentinel

By Elaine Showalter

UPDATED 04/15/1996 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 04/15/1996 at 01:00 AM EDT

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B

Rescued after 18 months in the Peruvian jungle, GI Jim Ellison (Richard Burgi) has developed heightened senses. Home in fictional Cascade, Wash., he turns supercop—what anthropologist Blair Sandburg (Garett Maggart) terms "a human crime lab with organic surveillance equipment." With the hippie-ish Sandburg's help, Ellison sniffs out serial bombers and terrorists in an exciting but hyperactive series.