Let's go back a decade, wait make that 2 decades to the decadent 90's when the world was a very different place and TV wasn't what it is today and while we there, we remember a little show that ran the airwaves and lasted eight entire seasons, Walker, Texas Ranger, with the first episode airing 21 April 1993 and the final episode date: 19 May 2001.
The premise of the show went as follows:Texas Ranger Cordell Walker kicks posterior -- usually in slo-mo. Because of his martial-arts skills, he has a competitive edge against the bad guys. With the help of retired ranger C.D. Parker, partner James Trivette and A.D.A. Alex Cahill, Walker ruthlessly fights for justice.
The star of the show was definitely Chuck Norris and week after week we got to see some major ass-kicking and a story to boot with our favourite protagonist taking out the bad guys. Unlike today's shows there really wasn't an underlying story arch continuing throughout the season but instead opted for a new story weekly with a few tie-backs to previous or upcoming episodes.
Now almost 2 decades later a whole new reboot is underway preparing to introduce our hero to an entirely new generation of fans with all thanks due to the popular youth channel the CW. CW's successful track record of producing hit shows only serves to give merit to this reboot and the fact that it might shape up to be a pretty good show and worth taking a look at.
Walker, a reimagining of Walker, Texas Ranger which will star Supernatural's Jared Padalecki.With Supernatural soon coming to an end after fifteen seasons, this will keep Padalecki in the CW family a little while longer. Walker will follow Cordell Walker, a widower and father or two with his own moral code. After returning home to Austin after being undercover for two years, Walker discovers that there's hard work to be done at home."He’ll attempt to reconnect with his children, navigate clashes with his family, and find unexpected common ground with his new partner (one of the first women in Texas Rangers’ history), while growing increasingly suspicious about the circumstances surrounding his wife’s death," reads the official description.
Padalecki, a native of Texas, had been looking for the chance to stick around his familiar stomping grounds for his next series (Supernatural shots in Vancouver) and reportedly jumped at the chance of giving Walker, Texas Ranger the reboot treatment.
So get ready for some Texan action coming to a TV near you very soon, but as with other reboots, expect it to be different to what you may have remembered Chuck Norris' Texas Ranger to have been.
And just to remind you, we've thrown in an original WalkerTexas Ranger intro...
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