A very popular show, even on this side of the Pond - that is, if your notion of "popular" is limited to lumpenproletariat. Anyone who left school after the age of 16 would not want to be caught watching that stuff

That thing is frightening. I mean, really frightening. It's a good thing that almost nobody here understands southern American English, because the soundtrack would really scare the hell out of any continental European :

    Cos' the eyes of the Ranger are upon you
    And what you'll do he's gonna see
    When in Texas, you'd better look behind you
    Cos' that's where the Ranger's gonna be.

"There are exactly two kinds of people in the world : Good Guys and Bad Guys. Good Guys' job is to clean Bad Guys from the surface of the free world by any possible mean (especially including violence), because after all, the Bad Guys do not deserve to live - if God had put a human soul in them they would be Good Guys, wouldn't they ?"

This sounds pretty much like showing a big board with "Advice to wannabe-rightist dictators : excellent opportunities on the Texan market" written on it.