Recently, I started watching the Heroes & Icons channel (DirecTV channel 385)

I didn't watch Walker, Texas Ranger when it was on in the 1990s. I was, umm, a far too sophisticated TV viewer back then.

But these days, I yearn for the 1990s. Life really was simpler then. Fewer cell phones, too. One character on the show was searched and they found a cell phone on him, and they held it up to him like it was a vial of crack. The character made excuses "I uhh, was expecting a call!"

Love it.

But, it's just really fun, campy television. Just like any movie with Steven Seagal or Jean Claude van Damme, Chuck Norris is always presented with opportunities to kick bad guys in the face. Everybody has a gun, but many times, they don't use them. It's just the way that universe is, and that's fine.

Since watching the show, I've taken to popping out from behind doors to scare my wife, yelling WALKERTEXASRANGER!! while throwing err trying to throw a kick. I've discovered that my kicks are better if I have something substantial to hold on to, and to maybe not kick too high or too fast, and to perhaps sit and rest a while afterwards when I hear my joints cracking and popping.

On top of that, based upon her reaction, I don't think I'm managing to scare her. She usually looks mildly amused, sometimes just glances at me and walks away. I am fierce, I tell you! I just need to warm up a bit and lose about three decades.

One unique thing about Walker, Texas Ranger is that for all but the first season (I think) the late Clarence Gilyard, who plays Norris's partner in the show, carries a Walther P5C. This is the only TV show or film in which I've seen this pistol.

IMFDB incorrectly identifies the pistol as a Walther P5 but I can tell you beyond any doubt that it is a P5C. Kinda surprising. Those guys usually get it right.

Anyway, lots of campy fun.

Yup, I have the series on DVD and it will be time to start watching them again after my wife and I finish the original Magnum P.I., Miami Vice, and Rockford Files that we have on BluRay.

I hate the show because it's so damn corny but at the same time love to see Walker hand the BGs' asses to them. Lol.

I guess I'm not the only one wishing times was simpler.

Lone Wolf McQuade from which the series was based is awesome too.

I could watch the scene with the beer and the buried Dodge Ramcharger all day long.

Nitrous Oxide, Supercharger, both. We never really figured it out, but it was cool.

With my hearing so messed up, I no longer derive any joy from television. One exception -- my wife has discovered one of the streaming channels that has the "Monk" series. Tony Shaloub is great in that role. I don't have to hear it, the closed captioning is more than sufficient since much of his acting is really a visual thing. Try watching an episode with the sound muted, you'll see what I mean.

I’ve been enjoying a lot of shows I grew up on. Hunter, TJ Hooker, magnum PI, chips, walker texas ranger. All so corny but simpler times.I wish I could get my kids to watch. Men were men, no queer stuff shoved down our throat. Just good clean American male violence.

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Originally posted by radioman:
Lone Wolf McQuade from which the series was based is awesome too.

If it was based on JJ McQuade, it was by nature they were both Rangers. Cordell Walker was the polar opposite of McQuade. McQuade was much more dark and gritty to Walkers optimistic and upbeat style. Oh, I think they also both know karate.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
With my hearing so messed up, I no longer derive any joy from television. One exception -- my wife has discovered one of the streaming channels that has the "Monk" series. Tony Shaloub is great in that role. I don't have to hear it, the closed captioning is more than sufficient since much of his acting is really a visual thing. Try watching an episode with the sound muted, you'll see what I mean.

I think I can still hear well but on movies and tv shows that I have (Monk being one of them), I like the close caption. I found out a lot of people are distracted by it. But I read it and then I listen to the dialogue. It saves me some time for when the background music is loud or the line is simply muttered.

I distinctly remember many episodes, one that sticks out to me is where they are stranded in the mountains with some sort of man-beast-savage-creature and Walker gets the assist from Griz(ly bear).

That there is some quality television



I'll say, in the era, I was partial to ol' Nash Bridges and his Comp'ed 38 Super.

WALKERTEXASRANGER!!

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Originally posted by radioman:
Lone Wolf McQuade from which the series was based is awesome too.

I could watch the scene with the beer and the buried Dodge Ramcharger all day long.

Nitrous Oxide, Supercharger, both. We never really figured it out, but it was cool.

Were we separated at birth??? Love that movie and always think of that scene.

My Dad was born in 1919 and served in the US Army for WWII and Walker Texas Ranger was his all time favorite TV show. You didn't talk to him, ask him a question or do anything to disturb when his "Show" was on. I always got a kick out of that because Dad was a golfer who thought a Rifle range was a waste of good space for a golf course.

I saw an interview with Chuck Norris where the reporter asked him if David Carradine was a good martial artist.

Chuck smiled and said: "He's about as good at martial arts as I am at acting". He clearly understood he had no chance at an Oscar. Unless he wanted one and then it would have been renamed a Norris.

You really need to watch the 1983 movie Lone Wolf McQuade to see where WTR started.

I've always thought this was his best fight scene.


For me the focus he had from this point on and always loved the spinning back fist:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Recently, I started watching the Heroes & Icons I've taken to popping out from behind doors to scare my wife, yelling WALKERTEXASRANGER!!

I do that except I yell "Obama!", no kicks.
(not a political comment, just a coincidence, scarier than "Boo!")

For the last few years, I've been Un-able to say it any other way than "Texas Walker Ranger", and it's so stupid that I laugh each time.



I'm convinced it was not only one of the worst things ever on television and has played a large part in the downfall of our society, but it will also go down as one of the great atracoties in all of human history.

I’m just laughing at the fact that you’re popping out from behind doors, trying to scare your wife!
That’s my kind of spouse! Keeping it fresh and interesting. Careful, though, she might kick back.

I named my kids Walker and Texas Ranger.

I used to watch that show all the time after school on USA or TBS or TNT or whatever it was on, wonderful corny 90s stuff.

I love me some Lone Wolf McQuade, Invasion U.S.A, Delta Force, Missing in Action, all good stuff. Para...you have seriously been missing out. Welcome to the party!