As almost everyone who knows me will tell you, I am a bona fide television junkie. I watch old shows, new shows, and everything in between. Oddly enough, in my more than thirty years on this earth I had never watched a single episode of Walker, Texas Ranger until June of 2007 when Walker, Texas Ranger: The Complete Third Season was released on DVD and I had a chance to watch a number of episodes. After that, I went back to some of the earlier episodes of the show to find out what I had missed; as it turns out, not much.
After watching the complete fourth season of Walker, Texas Ranger on DVD, I can honestly say that not much seems to change from episode to episode, season to season. For those of you who don't remember the show that ran from 1993-2001 on CBS, here's a little refresher. Cordell Walker (Chuck Norris) is a Texas Ranger working out of Dallas, who believes in beating up criminals whenever he deems necessary. His partner is the younger Jimmy Trivette (Clarence Gilyard Jr.), a streetwise guy from Baltimore who used football to get a college education, but lost his shot at a career with the Dallas Cowboys after a career-ending shoulder injury. Trivette tends to be more scientific than Walker, preferring to let scientific advances help them catch criminals more than their fists.
Walker's life pretty much revolves around his work, but he does find time for his girlfriend, a district attorney named Alex Cahill (Sheree Wilson). When Walker isn't spending time with Alex, he's usually hanging out with his buddies at CD's, a bar/restaurant owned by a former Ranger named C.D. Parker (Noble Willingham), forced into retirement after being shot in the knee.
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1 - Jordan Richardson
Walker is awesome. Great camp value, plus Chuck Norris ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one.