By AmericasNewsToday.Org staff
Renegade was a U.S. television series that ran for 5 seasons and 110 episodes between 1992 and 1997. It followed the adventures of Reno Raines, a cop turned bounty hunter, played by Lorenzo Lamas. The series was produced by Stephen J. Cannell, who also had a recurring role as Donald 'Dutch' Dixon
Framed for the murder of his wife by Dixon, Reno Raines is sent to prison but promptly escapes. Dixon sends professional bounty hunter Bobby Sixkiller after him, but Reno ends up joining Sixkiller's organization instead, after saving Bobby's life. Now Reno searches for the one witness who can clear his name and bring down Dixon, while working as a bounty hunter for Sixkiller Enterprises.
A typical episode might involve an attractive woman coming to the Sixkiller's organization needing to rescue her equally attractive sister from her sleazy drug dealer boyfriend. Often these boyfriends would have some kind of hobby like racing horses, or cars, or speedboats, which would allow Reno to go to work undercover, usually as a mechanic at first, but often having to fill-in to a more important role, like a driver, where he would inevitably excell. This would allow Reno to gain the confidence of the evil boyfriend, but usually he was found out at some inopportune moment, leading to some kind of imprisonment that he would escape from either on his own, or with the help of the other Sixkiller members. In saving the day Reno was often forced to turn down the grateful advances of the attractive women he had helped, out of loyalty to his comatose wife.
In real life Lorenzo Lamas left his wife (Kathleen Kinmont) for an extra on the show.
Introduction: "He was a cop, and good at his job. But then he committed the ultimate sin, and testified against other cops gone bad. Cops who tried to kill him, but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands. An outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter, a Renegade."
The Renegade theme was composed by Mike Post
