As of July 2026, The Sentinel Season 2 aired in 1996 with 24 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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The Sentinel Season 2

1996 24 Episodes Drama · Crime ⭐ 7/10

If you want a crime drama that treats its mystery as more than a puzzle, The Sentinel Season 2 is available on streaming right now. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Richard Burgi anchors it, but the writing does the real work. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, The Sentinel Season 2 is worth clearing space for. At its heart, The Sentinel Season 2 understands what makes crime drama work — character first, plot second. Season 2 of The Sentinel includes 24 episodes. It aired from September 1996 to May 1997. This season stars Richard Burgi, Garett Maggart and Bruce A. Richard Burgi and Garett Maggart lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1996. The plot mechanics of The Sentinel Season 2 never overwhelm the human cost underneath them. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Viewers who think they have seen every crime drama tend to find The Sentinel Season 2 proves them wrong. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Richard Burgi's performance is the kind that shows up on best-of lists years later. If you have been looking for something to fill the gap left by a recently finished story, this is a reliable answer.

📡 Where to Watch The Sentinel Season 2

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🎬 The Sentinel Season 2 — Episode Guide

During a flight to South America, Captain Banks and his son Daryl crash land in the Peruvian jungle and eventually stumble across a shady lumbering operation run by a man named Reischer.

Out of the Past

Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.

At an unrelated auto accident by the river, evidence surfaces which implicates Jim and his old partner, Jack Pendergrast, in a kidnapping/murder case from four years prior.

When Blair and Jim join Captain Banks at his 20-year high school reunion they discover more than just nostalgia awaiting them in the officer's hometown.

Ellison finds himself witness to the beginnings of an underworld war between the drug-running bikers of The Void and the local representatives of the deadly Japanese Yakuza.

Ellison gets his fifteen minutes of fame when the police department invites TV producer Wendy Hawthorne and Conner, her cameraman, to do a piece on him for her show "True Crime."

Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.

When employees start dying "accidentally" aboard the North Star Five oilrig, Jim and Blair discover that their newest assignment has them walking a decidedly watery beat.

Ellison and Sandburg get a chance to hone their driving skills when some high-end car thieves set up shop on the streets of Cascade.

When Francisco Rivero, an ex-associate of Hector Carasco, kidnaps Carasco's daughter Maya and uses her as blackmail for the family fortune, Ellison and Sandburg join forces with her Uncle Gustavo to bring her safely home.

When a series of explosions level black churches throughout Cascade, Ellison, Sandburg and Captain Banks uncover the racist influences of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) in their city.

Blind Man's Bluff

Ellison and Sandburg trace the distribution of Golden, Cascade's trendy new drug, to a local dive where the narcotic wreaks havoc with Ellison's enhanced senses.

Ellison sees an undercover police detective named Brent Marten thrown to his death from a police helicopter. Ellison watches Banks and his men retrieve the body from the harbor, then learns the case has been placed under the jurisdiction of Internal Affairs investigator Sheila Irwin.

An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.

Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.

Sandburg becomes trapped between floors in a skyscraper elevator controlled by an extortionist, who threatens to send the elevator plummeting to its doom unless a hefty ransom is paid.

A birthday party for Katrina, a young Russian woman, is interrupted by a vicious attack that claims the life of two men and ends with the theft of a mysterious black suitcase from the woman's boyfriend, Sergei. Ellison and Sandburg receive little cooperation from the witnesses, but Ellison's "Sentin...

Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.

During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."

Ellison and Sandburg spot a man, a mob accountant, who they thought was dead. When they try to catch up to him, he nearly runs them over escaping in his car.

🎭 Cast of The Sentinel Season 2

Richard Burgi

Garett Maggart

Bruce A. Young

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