Walker, Texas Ranger season 5 premiered with Higher Power on Saturday, September 21, 1996, and ended with Rookie on Saturday, May 17, 1997.
Season 5 has 26 episodes. Syndication and some streaming sites split the two-hour episode Sons of Thunder into two episodes, bringing the total number of episodes this season from 26 to 27.
On the original DVD release, season 5 was released as season 4.
List of episodes[]
| No. in series | No. in season | Episode title | Synopsis[1] | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | 1 | Higher Power | Walker tries to keep a family together after a Tibetan Monk discovers that the spirit of the Lama Dolgin, a renowned Buddhist teacher, has been reincarnated as a young boy and tries to take the boy back to Tibet. | Sat, Sep 21, 1996 |
| 75 | 2 | Patriot | When Walker and Trivette arrest the leader of a white supremacist group, the group retaliates by taking Alex and the employees of a minority-owned television station hostage. | Sat, Sep 28, 1996 |
| 76 | 3 | Ghost Rider | When construction workers unearth a young Indian boy's decomposed body, Walker and Trivette set out to solve an eight-year-old crime. | Sat, Oct 5, 1996 |
| 77 | 4 | The Brotherhood | When a vengeful brotherhood of police officers begins to murder crooks who are being set free on technicalities, Walker must put an end to the reign of terror. | Sat, Oct 12, 1996 |
| 78 | 5 | Plague | Walker must help save the lives of his friends at the Cherokee Federal Reservation when they are put at risk by a corporation that runs an experimental dairy farm and chooses future profits over human safety. | Sat, Oct 19, 1996 |
| 79 | 6 | Redemption | It's Cahill vs. Cahill when the head of a crime ring hires Alex Cahill's long-estranged, alcoholic father, Gordon Cahill, to defend him against Alex's prosecution. | Sat, Oct 26, 1996 |
| 80 | 7 | Codename: Dragonfly | When Walker's nemesis from his Vietnam War days steals a multi-million dollar secret military helicopter to transport drugs for the cartels, Walker has a chance to help clean the streets of drugs and even settle a score from his past. | Sat, Nov 2, 1996 |
| 81 | 8 | A Silent Cry | When Darcy Reynolds, the daughter of Walker's friend, is raped after the black-out drugrohypnol is slipped into her drink on the night of her 21st birthday, Walker scouts the nightclubs of Dallas for her attackers. | Sat, Nov 9, 1996 |
| 82 | 9 | Swan Song | When a wrecked plane that was involved in a bank robbery and the murder of Walker's friend eight years earlier is finally discovered in the Utah mountains, Walker travels to the site in an attempt to solve the case. | Sat, Nov 16, 1996 |
| 83 | 10 | Cyclone | Alex and C.D. are bringing home a group of children who participated in "Kids in Government Day," when they are taken hostage by kidnappers who bury their bus deep in mud, and Walker must rescue them before an oncoming cyclone hits. | Sat, Nov 23, 1996 |
| 84 | 11 | Lucky | When two real estate developers murder a priest to stop him from building a job training center for the homeless, there are only two eyewitnesses. | Sat, Nov 30, 1996 |
| 85 | 12 | The Deadliest Man Alive | The world's most deadly assassin, who may have been involved in the murder of JFK, has been found in Dallas and Walker must put an end to his reign of terror before the visiting Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. becomes his next victim. | Sat, Dec 14, 1996 |
| 86 | 13 | A Ranger Christmas | Walker tells children a Christmas story about a Texas Ranger from 1876. Hayes Cooper was said to have no Christmas spirit. In 1876, a baby was kidnapped and Haynes was assigned the case. | Sat, Dec 21, 1996 |
| 87 | 14 | Mayday | Walker and Charlie Brooks, a key trial witness he is escorting, miraculously survive when their plane is blown up over Utah, and Walker must lead the group of survivors, including a woman in labor, to safety. | Sat, Jan 11, 1997 |
| 88 | 15 | Last Hope | Walker, Alex, C.D. and Trivette take a group of underprivileged teens to Ranger Camp for a weekend retreat, not knowing that one of the boys has stolen a bag of money from drug dealers, which puts all their lives at risk. | Sat, Jan 18, 1997 |
| 89 | 16 | Full Contact | When Johnny Prado, a champion kickboxer, is framed by an enemy for both the murder of his manager/trainer and drug possession, Walker steps in as his coach for the Kickboxing Championship of the World. | Sat, Feb 1, 1997 |
| 90 | 17 | 99th Ranger | Walker helps a woman realize her dream of becoming a Texas Ranger. | Sat, Feb 8, 1997 |
| 91 | 18 | Devil's Turf | When high school students start dying from accidents related to "powerballs," a combination of anabolic steroids and methamphetamines, Walker hits the classroom in order to try to uncover the source of the drugs and stop the deaths. | Sat, Feb 15, 1997 |
| 92 | 19 | Days Past | When the man who shot and killed Walker's fiance 10-years earlier manages to get an early release from prison, Walker is overcome by painful memories as he seeks justice in her memory. | Sat, Feb 22, 1997 |
| 93 | 20 | Trial of LaRue | Alex meets her nemesis, Victor LaRue, once again -- this time in a courtroom where he is the self-appointed judge of her fate and only Walker can save her. | Sat, Mar 8, 1997 |
| 94 | 21 | Heart of the Dragon | A young Chinese man and two rival Chinese gangs vie for the possession of a powerful jade dragon with magical powers, for very different reasons. | Sat, Apr 5, 1997 |
| 95 | 22 | The Neighborhood | After surviving a drive-by shooting, a little girl, inspired by an angel, partners with Walker to save the neighborhood from gangs and violence. | Sat, Apr 26, 1997 |
| 96 | 23 | A Father's Image | As one of her first assignments, Texas Ranger Bobbie Hunt goes undercover as a tutor for 10-year-old Nicky Matacio - in the hopes of capturing the boy's mobster father and returning Nicky to his mother. | Sat, May 3, 1997 |
| 97 | 24 | Sons of Thunder | Modern Texas Ranger Cordell Walker helps one of his former "Kick Drugs Out of America" students complete the transition from childhood to manhood and find his life's mission after his father suddenly dies. (Note: This episode is 91 minutes, and is split into two episodes for syndication and on some streaming sites.) | Sun, May 4, 1997 |
| 98 | 25 | Texas vs. Cahill | When Alex is discovered in bed with a dead man and her fingerprints are on the gun that killed him, it is up to her dad, Attorney Gordon Cahill, to defend her against the murder charge. | Sat, May 10, 1997 |
| 99 | 26 | Rookie | After Joey Prado graduated from the Dallas Police Academy at the top of his class, Walker chooses him to take on a crucial but difficult assignment -- aborting drug dealers' plans to distribute free heroin in the schools. | Sat, May 17, 1997 |
References[]
- ↑ Official synopses are from Prime Video and/or Hulu.