Sons of Thunder
Episode Guide
Notes: Not my own.
The synopses are taken from Episodelists
& -Guides by LS. Click the links to go to
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credit
for them. They are all the hard work of Patt,
Jen, and Ace, among others, and many thanks go out to all of
them. The
pictures have been culled over the years from their (mainly)
discontinued
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sorry if this upsets anyone, but I know that Patt
wouldn’t have minded my posting her pics
here,
especially since if she were still around (We miss you, Patt!)
her Sons of Thunder Information site would still be active, and there
would be
no need for my pages. If anyone else objects to their pictures
being
posted here, please email me,
and I will gladly remove them. I only put them up because, with
the slow
de-activation of Patt’s site, there was
not a
good, reliable source for SOT screen caps on the net anymore and I
didn’t
want them to be lost.
~ Kat.
Walker
Texas
Ranger Episodes
5.24 – Sons of Thunder - Rev. Thunder Malloy, a close friend of Walker, Alex and C.D.'s, dies during a softball game from a heart attack. His son Trent, a martial-arts instructor in the Army, returns and eventually leaves the Army to take care of his family. Walker and Trivette go after a serial cop killer who also has Carlos, Trent's childhood pal, on his list. And also Trivette is shot and seriously wounded after he accidentally crossed the killer's way.
Original air date: 04-May-1997
Note: This 2 hour episode is a potential spin-off pilot. Some of the Malloys and Carlos appear from now on in several episodes. Eventually the spin-off series Sons of Thunder is produced. Wilma Knight is the mother of Chuck Norris
Guest Cast : Jimmy Wlcek - Trent Malloy, John Amos - Pastor Roscoe Jones, Marco Sanchez - Carlos Sandoval, Ed Bruce - Thunder Malloy, Shane Meier - Tommy Malloy, Alexandra Artrip - Tandy Malloy, Josh Witter - Tyler Malloy, Tess Harper - Katie Malloy, Wilma Knight - Millie Johnson
Sons of Thunder Parts 1 and 2 Transcript
6.18 – Undercover - For several months now Carlos has worked under cover and in the meantime he has gone his way up in the drug ring. The higher he gets the more dangerous it gets but being so close to the kingpin he doesn't want to pass on the chance - which could end deadly after the drug lord finds out about his real nature. Trent's karate students participate in a tournament.
Original air date: 07-March-1998
Guest
Cast : Jimmy Wlcek - Trent Malloy,
Marco Sanchez - Det. Carlos
Sandoval, Shane Meier - Tommy Malloy,
John Vargas - Johnny Prima, Matthew Tompkins - Jake Lyons
6.19 – Everyday Heroes - After another successful job with his safeguard agency, Maria Mendoza calls in Trent for help against her abusive husband, the ruthless drug lord Rudy Mendoza. Although she needs some persuasion to accept help, Maria finally agrees and Walker and Alex now have a powerful source and key witness to go after Mendoza - which proves to be dangerous for all involved.
Original air date: 21-March-1998
Guest
Cast : Andrew Divoff - Rudy Mendoza, Jimmy Wlcek - Trent Malloy, Marco
Sanchez - Det.
Carlos Sandoval,
Catherine Lazo - Maria Mendoza, Robert
Madrid - Leon, Tracy Spaulding - Donna Richards
6.21 – Angel - After fifteen years out-of-touch, Angel, Trivette's ex-girlfriend, shows up asking him for help in searching her father. Not knowing what he's in, he leads her to a man who is subsequently killed by Angel. Trivette learns that this was a pro job, the man killed testified years ago against a drug gang. Although Angel turned into a professional killer, she needs more than one opportunity to put an end to the job: kill the witness Trivette. What's on Trivette's side is that the Jamaican gang turned their back on Angel and want to kill her, too. Walker helps Luther in Camp Justice.
Original air date: 18-April-1998
Guest Cast : Marco Sanchez - Det. Carlos Sandoval, Billy Williams - Dread, Grand L. Bush - Andros, Valerie Pettiford - Angel
6.22 – The Soul of Winter - Stan Gorman, leader of the white supremacist group 'Sons of the Reich', is out to take revenge on the black Pastor Roscoe Jones, the man he was out to kill years ago but which earned him only a multi-year prison term. Now he tries every way possible to intimidate - if not kill - Roscoe, successor of the late Thunder Malloy. Gorman's 'projects' cause a lot of fear among the people in the neighborhood - and it's becoming a very dangerous one. Walker, supported by the sons of Thunder and Carlos, sets out to stop the powerful neo-nazi group.
Original air date: 25-April-1998
Guest
Cast : Marco Sanchez - Det. Carlos Sandoval, Jimmy Wlcek - Trent
Malloy, Shane Meier - Tommy Malloy, David Kirkwood
- Deacon
Rivers, R.D. Call - Stan Gorman, Paul Winfield - Pastor Roscoe Jones,
Collin Raye - himself, Shane Hendrix - Sonny Kline
6.24 – Test of Faith - Gang violence takes over East Dallas when five gangs fight for predominance in the district. In the midst of the fighting lies a high school where the goings on become only too perceptible. When a popular teacher, Ricardo Lopez - a very good friend of Trent and Walker's - stands up to a gang leader it proves deadly for him. Walker now poses as a substitute teacher, to find Ricardo's killer as well as help the students to take steps against the situation. One of Walker's students, Faith, leads these actions with a campaign which puts her into grave danger.
Original air date: 09-May-1998
Guest Cast : Jimmy Wlcek - Trent Malloy, Rachel Crane - Faith, Billy Gallo - Ricardo Lopez, Jonathan Hernandez - Malcolm, Emilio Rivera - Loco, Abraham Verduzco - Carlos Delgado
7.02 – Trackdown - Hector, Carlos' nephew, is framed for robbery when - after the shop owner fired and refused to pay him - he simply takes the money he has earned. He is sent to prison on false charges but with Carlos and Walker on the case it will be a short term. However, in prison fate is awaiting him again when an inmate asks him for help against the drug-trafficking guards. Before that inmate is killed he hands him over a booklet proving what's going on. And with the booklet Hector has the guards on his heel, too. Alex, supported by Walker, founds H.O.P.E. - an institution to 'Help Our People Excel'.
Original air date: 03-October-1998
Guest
Cast : Marco Sanchez - Carlos, Mark Alaimo - Kelton, Greg Serano -
Hector, Lorina Zapata - Carmen Lopez
7.03
– Royal Heist - After
an undercover agent is killed during a bank-robbery and the Ranger
learn of the
situation, Trivette continues the undercover job to complete it. The
robbers are led by Garrett Stone, a man Walker busted years ago,
although he's not the boss. Several small-cap
robberies follow which suggest that something big is coming: The heist
of crown jewels
arriving in Dallas.
The first big case for H.O.P.E. is to help a friend, whose son toys
with the
thought of joining a gang. Carlos, as 'big brother', tries to
divert him
from the path he's going.
Original
air date:
10-October-1998
Guest
Cast : Marco Sanchez - Carlos, David Parker - Garrett Stone, Alex
Miranda - Leon Ochoa,
Gladys Jiminez -Amy Ochoa,
Charles Homet - Agent Doug Foster, Alcides Dias - Flaco, RuPaul - Bob
7.06
–
The Children of Halloween - The
Rangers investigate the kidnapping of several kids, one of them Trent's
student. At the scenes of the crime a pentagram painted on the floor or
wall is
left behind, giving Walker and Trivette at least a clue - a clue which
says a
lot to Cassandra, the owner of an occult book store. With her help the
Rangers
get on the right trail, and not one minute too soon -
also Alex got kidnapped and the Rangers have only a few hours to go
until the
satanic cult sacrifice its victims on Halloween at midnight.
Original air date: 31-October-1998
Guest
Cast: Jimmy Wlcek - Trent Malloy, Marco
Sanchez - Carlos Sandoval, Downtown Julie Brown - Cassandra, Erik Todd
Dellums - David 'Lucifer' Thompson, Blake
Foster - Joey Williams
7.07
– Survival
- A
camping trip
to Utah turns into a nightmare, especially for Alex who is kidnapped by
the
infamous
troublemakers, the Trammel brothers. Walker, with Trivette, Trent and
Carlos, set
out to follow the three brothers into the woods and mountains. And it's
a
dangerous undertaking since the brothers know the one or other way to
get rid
of their pursuers. And the traps work: one of them injures Trivette
seriously.
Note: Episode Filmed on Location in Park City, Utah
Original
air date:
07-November-1998
Guest
Cast
: Jimmy Wlcek - Trent Malloy, Marco
Sanchez -
Carlos Sandoval, Randall 'Tex' Cobb - Dwight Trammel, John Henry
Whitaker - Luke Trammel, Jan
Shultz - Buddy Trammel
7.09
– Paradise Trail - For Walker's
birthday, C.D. buys him a book about Hayes Cooper's early days as
bounty hunter. To Alex and Jimmy C.D. reads the story about Cooper's
search
for a dangerous gang: When Cooper finally finds them it's not too
early: the
gang ran into Mormon settlers - from the
east on their way to Paradise Valley - and seeing their money and women
they have only one goal. Cooper
joins them
since he knows they will leave nothing undone to get what they want.
Original
air date:
21-November-1998
Guest
Cast : Jimmy Wlcek - Brother John Mason,
Marco Sanchez - Sam Brazos,
Mark Collie - Danny Tarpin, Melissa Pace -
Molly Mason
7.10
– Eyes of a Ranger - Kelly
Wyman has long dreamed of a singing career. So when hunky Brad Alt
promises to make her dreams come true, she blindly trusts him; not
realizing he's
a dangerous drug dealer. When Walker and Trivette
raid Brad's headquarters looking for heroin, they find Kelly just as
Brad is about
to take advantage of her. With Alex hearing her voice at the HOPE
center
and asking Walker to introduce her to his friend Michael Peterson, her
dreams may come
true.
Original
air date:
05-December-1998
Guest
Cast:
Lila McCann - Kelly Wyman, Michael Peterson - himself, Jimmy Wlcek -
Trent, Valerie Perrine - Marge Wyman,
Sean Kanan - Brad Alt, Arran Scott Treadway - Donny Riggins
7.11
– On the Border - When a
young truck driver refuses to smuggle drugs for him, border-town
sheriff Bell kills him and reports it as a drug-related accident -
which his mother
doesn't buy. She asks Alex for help who subsequently starts
investigations with
the Rangers. And those find a town in fear and a sheriff who apparently
runs a lucrative side business.
Original
air date:
12-December-1998
Guest
Cast : Jimmy Wlcek - Trent, Marco Sanchez - Carlos, Lee
Majors - Sheriff Bell, Stuart Greer - Simms, Naya Castinado - Lupe
Rodriguez
7.12
– Lost Boys -
Carlos's 15-year-old nephew is implicated in a cop killing when the
murder
weapon is stashed in his room by an underling of the killer, who
threatens the
boy's mother if he talks.
Original
air date:
09-January-1999
Guest
Cast : Marco Sanchez - Carlos, Bernie Guzman - Jesse, Chauncey Leopardi
- Bobby, Dan Clark - Blade, Michael Fishman - Snake, Ada Maris -
Theresa Estrella
7.13
– Special Witness - While Trent
is taking Sally, a mentally challenged Special Olympian, to running
practice, he is stabbed by Riggs, an assassin hired to prevent him from
testifying at a mobster's trial. As a witness to the brutal attack,
Sally realizes that
her life is in immediate jeopardy. As Trent lays
unconscious in the hospital, Walker must track down the killer before
he gets to the young girl.
Original
air date:
16-January-1999
Guest
Cast
:Deion Sanders - Special Olympics
Spokesperson,
Jimmy Wlcek - Trent, Marco Sanchez - Carlos, Andrea Fay Friedman -
Sally, Gary Busey - Donovan Riggs, Gianni Russo - Morris Foley
7.14
– The Principal - A
high-school principal correctly suspects a faculty member is behind a
surge in
drugs on campus, but the bust of a supplier puts the blame elsewhere,
until the
administrator witnesses a teacher distributing the product to his
student
salesmen.
Original
air date:
06-February-1999
Guest
Cast : Marco Sanchez - Carlos, James Remar - Bolt, J. Skylar - Danny,
Morgan Stevens - Max Henson
7.15
– Team Cherokee, part 1 - In a show
of support for their friends on Team Cherokee, Walker and the gang are
hanging
out on the race car circuit. When the team's tires are slashed during
an
important race, it becomes apparent that they are being victimized
because of
their heritage. Walker must expose the truth behind the tampering
before it's too late.
Meanwhile
Trent and Carlos attempt to track down a child pornographer who has
exploited a
young girl.
Original
air date:
13-February-1999
Guest
Cast : Jimmy Wlcek - Trent, Marco Sanchez - Carlos, Michael
Greyeyes - Brian Falcon,
Michael Horse - John Red Cloud,
Brad Hawkins - Wade Coltrane
7.16
– Team Cherokee, part 2 - After
rivals sabotage Team Cherokee's car, the team watches all chances of
victory
slip away. Even if they pour every cent of their winnings into a new
car, they
still don't have a driver. Walker is their only hope - even though he
hasn't raced in a very long time.
Meanwhile, Trent and Carlos go after the thieves who stole the evidence
needed
to convict a child pornographer.
Original
air date:
20-February-1999
Guest
Cast : Jimmy Wlcek - Trent, Marco Sanchez - Carlos, Lynn
Mathis - Burnett, Muse Watson - Forbes, Michael Horse - John Red
Cloud
Sons of Thunder Episodes
1.01 - Moment of Truth – A killer adds Carlos to his 'game' when he calls the murderer a 'pathetic loser, desperate for attention' on national television. The killer goes serial and hits close when also Carlos' partner Theresa falls victim. Removed from the case, Carlos quits the job. Teaming up with Trent they go after the still highly active killer. Trent continues his search for weapons' dealer Bobo Barnes.
Original air
date: 06-March-1999
Guest Cast :
Rosa Blasi - Marita Cortez, Neil Giuntoli - Det.
Ryan, Chuck Norris - Cordell Walker, Wade Williams - Jack Lesofsky
1.02 – Fighting Back - Trent and Carlos must help Sarah, a single mother who is brutally raped. While Trent and Alex try to rehabilitate Sarah, both physically and emotionally, Walker, Trivette and Carlos jump into action to find the perpetrator before he strikes again. Meanwhile, Trent and Carlos go undercover to expose a group of cons stealing computer equipment, and the new investigative team hires an office manager.
Original
air date:
13-March-1999
Guest Cast : Shane Meier - Tommy Malloy, Taylor Handley - Joseph McNulty, James Acheson – Myles Wilson, Isabella Hofmann - Sarah McNulty, Clarence Gilyard - James Trivette, Sheree J. Wilson - Alex Cahill, Chuck Norris - Cordell Walker, Derek Southers – Vinnie
Note: Dawn Maxey joins the cast as Kim Sutter
1.03 – Daddy’s Girl- What starts as an exciting day for Nancy - she's about to meet her father, Butch, for the first time - takes a dramatic turn when she finds her boyfriend dead upon returning. When the police arrive, the body is gone as well as the mess left by the hitmen. Her boyfriend has uncovered that a defense contractor's selling a faulty navigational system to the government. With his backup disk still missing Nancy finds herself on the hitmen's list. Carlos and Trent search for Butch's daughter (who couldn't bring herself to meet him in person and left only a note).
Original
air date:
20-Mar-1999
Guest
Cast : Leslie Bibb -
Nancy Jones, Michael Whaley – Riker, Shannen
Whirry – Sabina, Neil Giuntoli
- Det. Ryan, Gary Daniels – Lannark,
Chamblee Ferguson – Weaver, Brent Anderson – Lyle Douglas
1.04
– Lost and Found - Carlos accompanies
Alex and kids from the
Center on a camping trip. With them is also Danielle who has a
rough time
after her dad ran away. Not believing the 'running away' theory, her
mother
gets help in Trent, Butch and want-to-learn-something Kim who take on
that
case. At the camping site Danielle (who has run away) and Alex
(going
after her) run into a camp of a para-military
group
planning a big hit.
Original air date: 03-April-1999
Guest
Cast : Ashley Buccille – Danielle, Rick
Cramer – Hawkins,
Carol Huston - Brenda Kolshak, Brian
Leckner - Big Joe, Leo Rossi – Cardone,
Sheree J. Wilson – Alex, Chuck Norris -
Cordell
Walker
Note:
original title was
“Trapped.”
1.05 – Underground - When Jennifer again runs away from home with her boyfriend, her father, seeking help, is introduced to Trent and Carlos. Together with Butch and other helpers they go out to find her. Jennifer in-between joins her boyfriend in a gang of thieves living underground - whose leader is also dealing in black-market body organs. When Butch is robbed he gets on track of the underground thieves but also gets in grave danger. After disappearing Trent and Carlos have another person to look for.
Original
air date:
10-April-1999
Guest
Cast
: Kimberly McCullough – Jennifer, Luca Bercovici
– Boris, Keith Brunsmann – Fix, Craig
Wolf – Jimbo, Neil Giuntoli
- Det. Ryan
Note:
original title was
“Missing”
1.06
– Thunder by Your Side - Working
hard but with minimum pay, Thunder Investigations is still deep in the
red.
This could change when they are hired by Tony Lopiato,
a sleazy
Original
air date:
17-April-1999
Guest
Cast : Lisa LoCicero – Donna, Philip Suriano
- Tony ‘The Shark’ Lopiato, Lynn
‘Red’ Williams – Agent Grant, Jim McMahon – Agent
Foster, Neil Giuntoli - Det.
Ryan, Chuck Norris - Cordell Walker, Elana
Alexander
Kent - Terry
Note:
original title: "Into the Black"