Good stuff.....
but I have to admit that "Walker. Texas Ranger" was some of the most entertaining television shows created since Gilligan's Island. I mean that as a compliment.
His show was so hokey and predictable it made it great. I rarely missed it.
Where else can you find a DA (Alex) being abducted every other week only, of course, to have Chuck come to her rescue?
The formula was pretty well much the same each week. Introduce you to some nice person or persons only to have them victimized by bad guys with an IQ of kindergarteners to then have Walker track them down and kick them in the head. To really get you pissed they would go after CD or Trivette or play on racisim or other current social troubles.
Alex was kidapped so many times I lost count. If I were her I would have quit my job as the DA!!!!
After a couple of seasons they felt they were losing the audience due to the lack of violence, so they began adding lots of gun play and more psychotic bad guys. Season two or three actually began showing guys getting shot instead of just kicked in the head.
I recall one incredibly hokey episode with some genius kid and a computer. It was so, so horribly bad. It bordered on being as hokey as "Lost in Space" with the Carrot Man and his greenhouse and Dr Smith getting turned into a giant celery!
It's sad. Chuck probably is conceited. Maybe not. I don't know for sure. But I enjoy his TV work just necause it's so typically "Brady Bunch-ish".
I tip my hat to Chuck regardless of his persona.
I once had a dream about Chuck being naked on a donkey......
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