Walker Texas Ranger
Karate-champion-turned-movie-star Chuck Norris was ideally cast as the title character in the contemporary Western series, Walker, Texas Ranger.
The Walker, Texas Ranger title card features star Chuck Norris.
Watch Walker, Texas Ranger, an engaging Texas investigative series on USA Network, staring Chuck Norris as Cordell Walker.
After his old partner is killed in a bank heist, working with his new partner Trivette, Walker seeks vengeance on the killer-and uncovers the next daring scheme.
Cordell Walker is a contemporary Texas Ranger working out of the Dallas office who believed in dealing with criminals the old-fashioned way-by beating them up.
Walker, a martial artist, and his partner Trivette are Texas Rangers.
In the course of events, Uncle Ray Firewalker passed away; C.D. Parker was killed by a band of elusive assassins who intended to work their way up to Walker in their efforts to knock off every Texas Ranger in Dallas; and in the series’ seventh season, Walker and Alex became engaged, with wedding bells ringing at the end of season eight and the birth of a baby daughter in the final episode.
Walker and his partner work to protect Alex from the sheriff who found himself on the wrong side of the bars when she sent him to prison.
In a time when legends are scarce, Texas Ranger Cordell Walker is one of the last old-fashioned heroes of the West.
This pulse-pounding two-hour premiere episode introduces Cordell Walker, a contemporary Texas Ranger.
The show has gained a following for its camp appeal, thanks largely to its improbable combination of martial arts and modern Western genres, and to the resurgent popularity of its star, Chuck Norris.
Star Chuck Norris, former karate champion and movie star, played Walker in the deadpan unemotional style he used in most of his feature films.
CBS broadcast the television movie Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire, produced by Paramount Network Television , on October 16, 2005.
It aired on CBS with three pilot episodes followed by eight full seasons, from April 21, 1993 to May 19, 2001, was broadcast in over 100 countries, and has since spawned at least one made-for-television movie.
This was a popular if undemanding vehicle for deadpan karate champ and action-film star Chuck Norris.
Introduced as a two-hour TV movie on April 21, 1983, the weekly, hour-long CBS series starred Norris as Cordell Walker, who worked out of the Dallas office of the Texas Rangers with his youthful partner, Baltimore-born former football pro Jimmy Trivette.
Meanwhile, the Rangers continue their investigation on the college rapist and suspect that a professor that Alex knows might be the rapist.
County Assistant D.A. Alex Cahill, his sometimes girlfriend, frowned on Walker’s methods, even if they did get results.
A short-lived series, Sons of Thunder, featured recurring character Carlos Sandoval, who resigns from his post with the Dallas police and teams up with childhood friend Trent Malloy to start a private investigation firm.
Though she didn’t always approve of his methods, Walker’s off-and-on girlfriend, assistant D.A. Alex Cahill , admired his strong sense of justice and fair play, especially when protecting those weaker than himself.
Along with his partner James Trivette , county assistant district attorney Alex Cahill , and retired Ranger C.D. Parker , Walker and the Rangers ride on in their battle to serve justice.
At various times since 1997, reruns of the show have aired, in syndication, on the USA Network, Showcase Action, and Hallmark Channel.
Walker’s approach closely resembled the “eye for an eye” school of crime fighting.
Since 1997, due to the show’s popularity, reruns of the show aired, in syndication, on the USA Network, Showcase Action and Hallmark Channel.
He also gets advice on cases from C.D. Parker , a veteran Ranger who worked with Walker until retiring to operate a small restaurant and bar called “CD’s Bar and Grill.”
Others within Walker’s orbit included his old pal C.D. Parker , a former Ranger who, after being invalidated out of the service, opened up a restaurant; Uncle Ray Firewalker , the sagacious old Native American who raised Walker from childhood and had taught him the value of restraint and contemplation unless of course, violence was absolutely called for; Carlos Sandoval , an undercover detective who owed his life to Walker; and Walker’s former martial arts student Trent Malloy , who owned a karate school.
His partner and best friend is James “Jimmy” Trivette , a former Dallas Cowboys player who takes a more modern approach.
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Walker also works closely with Alexandra “Alex” Cahill , a Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney, who on occasion puts up a frown if Walker didn’t get the results in time.
While searching for Billy Clancy, an escaped parolee that he helped before, Walker who was already suspicious of his parole officer Dave Kilmer learns that Kilmer has been forcing Billy to commit crimes, and to protect himself Kilmer abducts Billy’s wife and son.
