History Series / WalkerTexasRanger

* DoesNotLikeGuns: ''Villains'' shoot people. Walker may flash his gun to make an arrest, but he very rarely pulls the trigger.

* CrashCourseLanding: PlayedForDrama in the season 8 finale, when an assassin hijack's the plane that newlyweds Alex and Walker boarded to Paris and ends up not only killing both pilots, but destroys part of the controls with his high-caliber bullets smashing into the systems. Walker is forced to radio in a mayday to flight control, which prompts them to give him specific instructions to land the plane, with Alex's help, of course. Said landing is actually not clean; Walker creams a billboard, high-rise parking complex, and the cars inside on the way down to the airport runway because he flew too low. Fortunately, he lands that bird on the money in the end.

* CastingGag: In one particular episode, at the very beginning, Trivette reads out a piece of literature describing in an almost poetic way of a stand off between two men. Walker questions who wrote it, and is told that Chuck Norris had. He simply shrugs and claims to have never heard of him, earning a track record telling by Trivette of Chuck's achievements in martial arts. Again, Walker says he never heard of him--yet corrects Trivette when the latter makes a mistake in listing Norris' accomplishments.

* DrowningPit: "No Way Out" centers around this, as Trivette, and whoda guessed, ''[[SeenItAMillionTimes Alex]]'', get kidnapped and imprisoned by Caleb Hooks in a water tank at a sewage treatment facility, which gradually fills up and threatens to drown them, while they reminisce on happier times in hopes Walker will save them a la ClipShow style.

* CastTheExpert: TV reporter Clarice Tinsley plays a TV reporter.

* [[ChannelHop Company Hop]]: The first four episodes were made by Cannon Television, before they ran into financial difficulties. Enter CBS (along with the Ruddy/Greif Company, [[ChuckNorris Top Kick Productions]] and Columbia Pictures Television) to pick up the slack.

* LargeHam: Noble Willingham's performances may raise your cholesterol. Not to mention the episode's villains.

* BloodlessCarnage: When a man in cowboy boots kicks people in the head, ''without'' drawing blood, this trope is active.

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Commonplace in cartel-centered episodes, usually a Mexican drug dealer.

** In Season 7's "Code of the West", the four main characters talk about who would play them in a movie. Trivette get Denzel Washington, Alex gets Helen Hunt, C.D. gets PaulNewman and Walker gets...Chuck Norris. When Walker complains they got Oscar winners, Trivette points out that Chuck was a six time World Karate Champion, which please Walker. Good thing since, of course...

->"The Lone Ranger wore a mask. I wear a beard."

* HeroOfAnotherStory: There was an additional pair of Texas Rangers that showed up when the plot required more police be involved, but their names escape me.
** Previously stated [[ActionGirl Action Girl]] Sydney Cooke and Francis Gage, whom, amazingly, after being added to the cast got just as many or more story lines as the Originals - Trivette, Alex and Walker.

* OhMrGrant

* InstrumentalThemeTune: The first three seasons.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: And the theme song says so; "When the eyes of the Ranger are upon you, any wrong you do he's gonna see; when you're in Texas, look behind you, 'cause that's where the Ranger's gonna be." An Inversion of course because BigBrotherIsYourFriend in this show. But it is a creepy song.
** It probably was supposed to be creepy. To the evildoers, yeah.
** Of course, it's the titular Ranger (or at best the people behind him) who gets to say who ''is'' an evildoer in the first place. Really, the song's lyrics are a prime example for UnfortunateImplications -- the idea may well have been to paint the Ranger as the inevitable long arm of the law who always gets the bad guys in the end, but the way it comes across is definitely more "stranger, if you don't ''like'' the idea of being stalked by our all-seeing Rangers who know wrong from right better than you anyway, don't come to Texas because we don't want your kind 'round here".

* BadassBeard: Guess who?

* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: Played very often, even with frequent criminals who usually know to keep their mouths shut and ask for an attorney. It's so badly done that even Alex--a DA who is ''not allowed'' to lie to a suspect--is often seen telling suspects that if they ask for a lawyer, any chance of a deal is off.

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: His roundhouse kick is a vital part of the Chuck Norris jokes.
** That's actually ... wait for it.. a spinning wheel kick. Roundhouse kicks involve no spinning at all. Chuck Norris studied Tang Soo Do.

** Specifically the DFWMetroplex. Many locals were used as extras or even had a line or two.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: The conclusion to the 2004 TV movie ''Trial by Fire'' was never made, because CBS pulled the plug on their made-for-TV movie stint. Most fans of the original series will disown the movie as non-canon for straying too far from the roots of the original series.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Usually Walker is the undisputed hero. In "A Deadly Vision", he is almost absent and we see Trivette and CD run around solving the case together, along with a oneshot psychic.

** Technically he was said to have died earlier (the beginning of the last season?) seemingly from natural causes, and in the finale the villain claims the murder, prompting a second autopsy that confirms cause of death was due to poison.

** Later becomes a CallBack and ChekhovsSkill for Walker during the Chairman 4-parter in season 9. Gage and Sydney badger an accountant for a rich scumbag into testifying against him and board a private flight back to Fort Worth. However, the Chairman's lackey, the "Wizard," has hacked into the plane's controls and proceeds to depressurize the cabins, knocking everyone out, while cutting off the radio contact and opening up the fuel tanks to help incite a horrific crash. Gabe is lucky enough to get an oxygen mask on, but has no clue on how to fly the plane, but luckily, he has a mobile phone on him to speak with Walker, and Walker has a splendid memory, telling Gabe exactly what to do to land the plane since his own brush with fate- which ends successfully.
* CrazyPrepared: In one episode, Walker, in his pickup truck, is being chased by a bad guy in an attack helicopter. How does Walker deal with this? By pulling out an ''M72 LAW rocket launcher from the back of his truck.'' There's no explanation offered; he's just that kind of crazy.

* CurbStompBattle: Often at the beginning of the show, or when C.D. Parker was a target, the bad guys would brutally beat up hapless individuals to try to impose their will, or to attempt to intimidate – always unsuccessfully – Walker and his Rangers.

* {{Disneyfication}}: The series starting around "Brainchild" in Season 5. The episode with the kid and his supercomputer best friend, with a script that would have been more at home in a Disney flick.
* DistressedDamsel (Alex Cahill, nearly an example of OnceAnEpisode)

* GoodCopBadCop

* IndianBurialGround

* MagicalNativeAmerican

* RapidFireTyping

* StuffedIntoTheFridge
* TheAggressiveDrugDealer

* VerySpecialEpisode

* YouHaveFailedMe

* BigBrotherIsWatching: And the theme song says so; "When the eye of the Ranger is upon you, any wrong you do he's gonna see; when you're in Texas, look behind you, 'cause that's where the ranger's gonna be." An Inversion of course because BigBrotherIsYourFriend in this show. But it is a creepy song.

** Of course, it's the titular Ranger (or at best the people behind him) who gets to say who ''is'' an evildoer in the first place. Really, the song's lyrics are a prime example for UnfortunateImplications -- the idea may well have been to paint the ranger as the inevitable long arm of the law who always gets the bad guys in the end, but the way it comes across is definitely more "stranger, if you don't ''like'' the idea of being stalked by our all-seeing rangers who know wrong from right better than you anyway, don't come to Texas because we don't want your kind 'round here".