Walker, Texas Ranger: The Complete Collection

I bought the individual seasons as they were released over the years. When I saw this "Complete Collection" pack, I had to get it. The main reason was the "Trial By Fire" which I don't believe was ever released in any format.The packaging of the series is very nicely done. I like the fact that it comes in a small box you can put on the shelf. It also sits with my individual seasons DVDs. So Walker Texas Ranger takes up a lot of shelf space for me.Walker Texas Ranger is one of the best shows of the 90s. There are many great series from that era and Walker has a special place in all that. I remember watching the show many times after school and now I can enjoy it anytime. Even after all these years, the show is still great to watch.There are certain predictability about the show. I'd like to point them out since I always thought they are funny or amusing.1) Noble Willingham plays CD Parker for the vast majority of the series. In the show, CD Parker is a retired Texas Ranger with an awesome career. A career so great that they put him in the hall of fame. CD Parker also owns a restaurant and makes a world champion bowl of chili. He has numerous awards for his chillis and very proud of it.CD Parker sounds like the kind of person anyone in Law Enforcement would dream to be friends with. You'd think that Walker would constantly be coming to CD for advice, or just general chatting about the day to day life in law enforcement. Maybe even coming to CD to discuss current cases or past unsolved cases. Right? Wrong. In the show, not once do we see any of his so-called abilities come out. CD Parker is more of a comic relief and gets frequently beaten to a bloody mess. He ends up in the ER frequently enough. Not once do we see him actually cook anything, too. Several times in the show he's in the main dining area with a stew pot, after hours cooking things. Why is he cooking things after everyone is gone? No idea, but that is when he usually gets pulverized by someone after Walker. Several times in the show, CD Parker goes after criminals only to get pulverized again.Some of you might notice Noble left the show suddenly. If I remember right, Noble wanted to run for a political office and I don't know if he ever won that or not. I would also say this show doesn’t exactly portray him as the kind of leader that would get things done.Also of interest, Noble was not that much older than Chuck Norris. Noble was born in 1931 and Chuck was born in 1940 putting their age difference just shy of a decade. Yet in the show, Chuck plays as a young, experienced Texas Ranger with a wonderful career, whereas Noble plays a retired person. It amazes me how greatly their appearances and bodies appear and it goes to show just how taking care of yourself makes a huge difference later in life. Noble has passed away some years ago, whereas Chuck Norris is still selling fitness equipments and doing exercise videos.Overall CD Parker is a massive contradiction in the show. He sounds so great, yet it’s always described in past tense never shown during the show. Granted CD is supposed to be a retired person so maybe his skills isn’t up to standard. Even when accounting for his retirement age I don’t see the wise person that the show described. In every case where he’s given an opportunity to show off his culinary skills, he falls short. And in every case where he’s going to show off his former Texas ranger skill set that put him in the hall of fames, he falls miserably short. Some examples include him taking children to the camp and I figure what an excellent time for him to cook up that world famous chili and tell up some camp fire stories for the children but instead we see him baking Betty Crocker brownie mix and gets pulverized to a bloody pulp. Other times he’s at a VIP formal event and suddenly bad guys come in and I think man those hostages are lucky to have a former Texas ranger to keep them calm and CD could relay valuable intel to protect the VIPs and neutralize the bad guys but instead he turns into this loud mouth, screaming belligerent fool and everyone has to comfort him and it ends up being a extra liability to be saved. We see CD ending up in the ER so many times and in each situation where you’d think someone with his past would do better. And while in the ER he’s very loud and everyone is laughing as he’s laying there covered in bandaids and neck braces.2) The plot of an episode can be predicted in the first few minutes, if you watch the series long enough. For example, if Walker is exercising with someone, and that someone is a good person who describes some troubles he's facing, then you can predict the entire plot will be that person is killed, Walker goes undercover, and uncovers a massive conspiracy. It seems like after the third season, the writers for Walker Texas Ranger simply gave up and just reused earlier plots to write out more episodes.3) Along with the predictable plot, the show has many reenactment of movies. If you grew up in the 90s, you watched a lot of great action films. In many episodes of Walker Texas Ranger, you can see reenacted scenes from famous movies of that era. Take for example the Harrison Ford movie, Clear and Present Danger when he went to visit the cartels in South America. His car was ambushed with RPGs and automatic fires and they had to bail out of the car to save themselves. That entire scene was replayed in Walker Texas Ranger as well as many other famous movies of that era.4) Sometimes I watch the show and think, "You know I seen this somewhere." Along with the reenactment of scenes from movies, the show reuse earlier scenes. One of the shows most popular scenes was when Walker was in a helicopter shooting out the tires from a truck. That same scene is reused multiple times for the remainder of the series.5) By the last season, we can see a noticeable shift in characters' roles. As some of you know, Gage and Sydney came on the show starting from about the last two seasons. I recall reading that Chuck Norris wanted to retire, but he also wanted to keep his co-stars with a job. The network said they didn't want to continue the show without Walker, so Chuck Norris decided to show the network execs that they show could work without him. You can notice a massive shift with Gage and Sydney because they are the main stars in many of the last seasons episodes. Matter of fact, Gage is the only character in the entire show to actually save Chuck Norris from certain death. Also, Trivette was shifted from a series sidekick to that of the comic relief. With CD Parker out of the show, Trivette acted more like the comic relief. It is sort of sad to me that they decided to make him a comic relief than a serious partner in the show. During the last couple of seasons, Trivette was constantly getting pulverized by silly side stories with very silly plots.As you know, by the last few episode, the network execs decided to pull the plug on the show. Chuck Norris returned the show to its original form during the last episodes with him taking over the main character, Gage and Sydney as a side story with the main plot, and Trivette as his trusty partner. The show went out with a bang.6) "Chuck Norris" co-exists in the Walker Texas Ranger universe. I recall a couple of times when Trivette ended up with deep conversation about Chuck Norris with Walker.7) The show is a massive advertisements for charities of Chuck Norris. Many of you might not know but Chuck Norris is a devout Christian and throughout the show we see various episodes where Walker tries to help school children stay away from gangs. In real life, Chuck Norris started the program "Kick Drugs out of America." I'm not sure if he started with George W Bush, who was a governor at the time of the show, or if it was George HW Bush, but one of the Bush's really liked Chuck Norris's program and endorsed it heavily. In many episodes of the show, Walker is conversing with Governor Bush with his Texas Ranger duties.In any event, you might not even really notice it, but Chuck Norris heavily invested his charities in this show. I believe the only fictional charity is the one started by Walker's companion Alex Cahill. Every other charity in this show are actual real life charities that Chuck Norris was really involved with.8) Speaking of Alex Cahill, Walker's girlfriend in this show gets frequently kidnapped and pulverized. It gets funny because Alex is supposed to be a really tough female in this show, yet whenever she gets captured, she's sort of a damsel in distress and only Walker can help her. In many parts of the show Alex helps battered women and there was only a single episode in the entire show where she decided to fight back and win. That episode was where she was helping these battered women and this ex-boyfriend captured one of them. They all joined in on the 2x4 clubbing and Walker just chuckled.9) Many famous movie stars came on this show as guest characters. Mila Kunis, Hulk Hogen, and many more all had guest appearances in this show. Some were famous, some were going to be famous. Very interested to see that.10) Criminals in this show are a complete and utter joke. In many episode, Walker is after a really, really tough bad guy with years of history at being a bad guy. These bad guys are also very professional with many of them having eluded international manhunts. For example, this one guy goes from contract killings to contract killings armed with a ice knife. He's so professional that he's able to stab someone surgically and he's able to escape before anyone can be wiser. Yet, Walker got this guy so crazed about him that somehow he decides to break his standards and go nuts trying to kill Walker for whatever reason.It seems like Walker can trick many criminals in this show with simple things. One of the great interrogation techniques is where Walker tells a bad guy the other guy gave him up and somehow this causes the main guy to spill the beans because he didn't want the other guy to get off. Other times in the show, Walker tricks criminals with a simple, "Betcha can't...." Other times, Walker tricks criminals with simple logic like, "Would you take 100,000 dollars or a penny that doubles everyday?" And everyone without hesitation says they'll take $100,000 dollars.Just as my earlier topic on the consistency and predictability with this show, criminals also have some sort of rule they follow pretty much the entire length of the show. Weapons and guns, behavior, mannerism, what sort of car bad guys drive all seem to have consistency throughout the entire show. Strangely every bad guy has various tricks to concealing his location or identity. Such things like a strange 2 minute rule before someone can trace you on the phone, or how every bad guy know every other bad guy in the show. Very strangely every bad guy comes from Huntsville prison where they each know each other to great extent. If you watch the show long enough, you know a bad guy when you see it. I also love how when the crew goes undercover and the initial check up with the bad guy asks about where they were before and every bad guy knows to great extent who was there and what sort of demise or problems the person had and if Walkers crew got to be like, “nah Frankie you see he tripped and got fired and sent to the slammer.” Then the bad guys accept them into this undercover sting without further questions or clarification.Bad guys are so bad that they can't actually tell you how bad they are. This one bad guy was so gruesome that he told this captured woman, "You know what I'm going to do to you? Do you!?!? I'll tell you..." and he leans in to whispers into her ear and she's going, "Oh no, not that! Please, not that!" And later in the show Walker pulverize this person. One episode Walker is in prison and this mob leader takes a liking to Walker and decides to initiate him into the gang and the first thing the guy says to Walker is, “you look like the kind of person who eats airline food and asks for seconds.” I am sitting here not sure if this is a compliment or some sort of attempt for an insult. Either way I would burst out laughing so hard my sides would hurt if someone said this to me especially a really bad guy that supposedly gets people killed or missing.The criminals in this show are a complete and utter joke. It's almost like a really bad cartoon. Aside from Walker massive brutality cases, these criminals would be more of a joke than taken serious.11) Indestructible hats. This could be put into an episode of unsolved mysteries because no matter how hard someone gets punched or kicked, their hats never come off. I don’t think I seen a single episode in the entire series where someone’s hat get knocked off. I think one episode Walker fell off a bull and his hat came off but other than that nobody’s hat comes off. Even in episodes where CD is getting pulverized to a bloody pulp and his clothes all ripped and torn his hat is still on and in excellent shape. I think hats in this show is quite possibly one of the greatest mysteries and you’d think they glued it on but no in follow up scenes Walker might take his hat off just as easily as he put them on.Overall I really like Walker, Texas Ranger. It is pure gold in some of the scenes and acting. It's definitely one of my favorite shows of the 90s and I would tell anyone to get it. This complete collection pack is definitely worth it as it comes with Trial by Fire which is very rare and I don't believe you'd find it otherwise. It isn't on the series when you buy the individual seasons.

I ordered the Walker series because I wanted it available to watch as I wanted, not just when it was presented on cable. To my surprise, the quality of episodes is much better than I receive on good quality cable. The pictures are much sharper with better color and the sound is much better. Before purchasing the series I had read of releases of the series that are not as good quality. I highly recommend this series and think it is well worth the cost if you are a Walker fan.

Chuck Norris is a Hollywood Legend I've liked him in his movies that he has done through his Hollywood career but I also truly like his TV show Walker Texas Ranger. I did not buy this box set for myself cuz I already had the whole complete series I bought this complete collection as a Christmas gift to my brother that asked for it I am on fixing come and I tried to get ahead of the game for Christmas I usually start around August September to start looking for great gifts that my brother and my dad would like those are the only two people I buy for and I usually ask my brother what he wants for Christmas so I can start working on it and he asked for a complete series of the TV show Walker Texas Ranger with Chuck Norris I had also got him the eight TV movie collection of Chuck Norris Walker Texas Ranger. Amazon has a pretty wide selection of different gift items that you can choose from that will not break the bank that will make all your gift buying very pleasable and make the people you're giving them to very happy so if you're on a fixing come like I am and you have to get a head start on Christmas check out Amazon you will find a lot of great gift ideas that will not break the bank guarantee it.

I WILL CONTINUE TO ENJOY CHUCK NORRIS MARSHALL ART FOR YRS TO COME. THANK YOU FOR THE CHANCE TO GET THE SERIES.

I had not ordered this before because people complained that the clarity of the film was not there. I can say that they have fixed this problem. It is great to see all the action and the stars from long ago. I got it for my husband's birthday and find I enjoy watching it again just as much.

Arrivé à temps. Excellente série pour se vider la tête et relaxer.

Mooie reeks. Doeltreffend verpakt. Alleen is de beeldkwaliteit een beetje achterhaalt door de lage beeldresolutie.

Thank you so much

Muy buen servicio decia que el pedido me llegaria de 7 a 15 dias y me llego en 4 dias fue muy bueno y llego todo bien

I have received it and only just started watching it the box is banged up, I had to put cellotape on the side of the box so it wouldn't break