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Walker's
approach closely resembled the
"eye for an eye"
school of crime fighting. His
partner is young Jimmy Trivette,
who had grown up in the slums of
Baltimore and used football as
his ticket to a college
education and a career with the
Dallas Cowboys until he busted
his shoulder. Despite Jimmy's
belief in computers and
scientific criminology, working
with Walker, always seemed to
leave him bruised and sore.
THE
VERDICT
Star
Chuck Norris, former karate
champion and movie star, plays
Walker in the same deadpan
unemotional style he used in
most of his feature films.
Nothing seems to excite him, and
the violence on the show has
something of a cartoon quality
about it. There is a real
surrealistic efficiency about
Walker--he never breaks a sweat,
gets hurt, or wastes a
blow--using violence because it
was necessary but never glorying
on it. This was Norris' first
time in a TV series and whilst
he's never going to win any
acting awards the series itself
is entertaining enough.
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