 The original opening of the film, including some outdoors shots filmed in  northern Italy, implied that the sentinels were controlled by an order of the  Catholic Church. These scenes were replaced in the American broadcast version  with new scenes involving the same cast, now describing the sentinels as  minions of an excommunicated order of defrocked priests, the "Brotherhood of  the Protectors." In the TV version, Jose Ferrers character is a monsignor  instead of a cardinal, and has more dialog.