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The show stars Chuck Norris as a Texas Ranger named Cordell Walker, who lives in modern Dallas, Texas. The Police Deparment he works in is the Department of Public Saftey. Ranger Walker shares values with the sheriffs from the Wild West, and was raised by a Native AmericanNative Americans (also Indians Aboriginal Peoples American Indians First Nations Alaskan Natives or Indigenous Peoples of America are the indigenous inhabitants of Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. This term compri named Ray Firewalker; Walker also fought in the Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a war fought between 1957 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos See Secret War) and in bombing runs ( Rolling Thunder) over North Vietnam. See also the timeline of the Vietnam War. Fighting on as a part of the United States Marine CorpsThe United States Marine Corps USMC is the second-smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. The United States Coast Guard is the smallest. The Marine Corps is nonetheless la. He works with a partner, a former player for the Dallas CowboysThe Dallas Cowboys are a National Football League team based in Irving, Texas. The team is sometimes referred to colloquially as America's Team due its having a large number of fans who live outside its immediate local area (the term itself is derived fro footballThis article deals with the history and development of the different sports around the world known as "Football". For links to specific articles on each type of football, please see the list at the bottom of this article. Football is the name given to a n team named James Trivette (played by Clarence GilyardClarence Gilyard is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series Matlock and Walker, Texas Ranger''.), who does things the more modern way. He works closely with the County Assistant District Attorney Alexandra "Alex" Cahill (played by Sheree J. Wilson ), whom he shares a mutual attraction with. In the past, he worked with former Ranger C.D. Parker (played by the late Noble Willingham ), now the owner of a small restaurant and bar.

"Walker, Texas Ranger" was known for formulaic plots characteristic of television shows in previous decades. Deus ex machinaDeus ex machina is Latin for "god from the machine" and is a calque from the Greek " ", (pronounced 'apo mekhanes theos'). It originated with Greek and Roman theater, when a mechane would lower a god or gods onstage to resolve a hopeless situation. Thus, was used liberally and often in each episode, especially towards the climactic scenes when Ranger Walker and his posse would arrive wherever the culmination of the antagonist's plans took place just as their plans would be completed only to quickly thwart these plans. The following were notable events in the series:

• Alex Cahill, Cordell Walker's girlfriend, was often kidnapped.
• In one episode, a one-million dollar bounty was placed on Cordell Walker's head.
• After Walker could not stop a middle-school boy from committing suicide, he single-handedly drove gang violence out of said boy's school and pressured the school's administration to make sweeping reforms, including a school uniform policy.
• In one episode, Ranger Walker was murdered by weapon smugglers after being chased by them in a sting operation gone bad for an entire episode, only for it to be revealed that the whole episode was a dream.
• Walker engages in undercover operations in various episodes. Walker always goes to get evidence to convict the actual leader of the antagonists so there is no chance for that their illegal activities could start up again elsewhere.
• Walker had a crossover episode with the series Martial Law . In part 1 (on Martial Law), Walker goes to LA and teams up with Sammo Law (played by Sammo HungSammo Hung (; Gwohngdongwa pengyam: Hong4 Gam1 Bow2; pinyin: Hong Jinbo; Cantonese: Hung4 Gam1 Bou2) (born 1950) is a Kung Fu movies actor and director. He was born in Hong Kong. He was one of the Seven Little Fortunes Chinese opera troupe as a youth, alo) and his Major Crimes unit to take down a hate crime leader named Cliff Eagleton. In Part 2 (on Walker), after the Eagleton Crew frees their leader from custody after Walker brings him back to Texas, Sammo Law comes to Texas to assist the rangers in bringing Eagleton down.
• Every major character of Walker has been put in the hospital, including Walker himself.
• The climactic Walker storyline, containing 4 parts, involves Walker heading a taskforce to bring down an infamous criminal known as the Chairman, who has been aiding crime lords through various activities such as exposing and killing federal agents and tracking down and killing witnesses in the witness protection program. The taskforce is composed of Walker, Trivette, Sydney, and Gage along with Vincent Rosetti, a New York cop (temporarily assigned as Trivette's partner), and Buzz Lee, a computer hacker.
• Only two Walker antagonists, Victor La Rue and Caleb Hooks, would come back to get revenge on Walker in later episodes.