Renegade is my favorite TV series ever. The perfect combination of gripping stories, beautiful scenery set against a backdrop of lush blue-sky, gorgeous women, and awesome vehicles. Lorenzo Lamas, Branscombe Richmond, and Stephen Cannell are all perfectly cast as their individual characters, and Kathleen Kinmont does a fine job also.I remember when I was a teenager, watching this show with my Dad, or if it was a school-night, waking up at 1am to watch this back-to-back with Nash Bridges on a channel called ITV here in England.But for me, the show has extended past just sentimentality. Today still in 2013, it's the 'Go-To' show for me whenever I have a spare hour to burn at home. As much as shows such as Lost, Prison Break, and Breaking Bad were all grippingly amazing, the beauty of Renegade is that you can watch a random episode from any series anytime you want without having to catch up to speed with the series' plot line.Renegade does have a plot-line; being that Reno Raines was framed for a crime which he didn't commit, and is on the run from Lieutenant Dutch Dixon, but over the course of the five years in which Renegade aired, they tended to dip in and out of this bigger story throughout each series. Which made for an interesting premise because the viewer at home, as did Reno Raines himself, would never know which episodes Dixon would show up. (Well, at least it was supposed to be that way if it were not for the spoilers; If you saw Stephen J. Cannnell's name pop up at the start of an episode, you knew he would be in that episode).Raines is on the run from the law, all he wants to do is clear his name and settle down to live a quiet comfortable life. In actual fact, he lives a great life; riding around under the Californian sunshine on his Harley Davidson, catching the bad guys, with an endless supply of beautiful women from all different walks of life falling in love with him. Each new episode would provide a new woman and new criminal with a totally different walk of life to the previous episode. Some of the back drops are just wonderful too with a mixture of varying settings depending on each episode, depicting different walks of life; there are lot of scenes of Reno Raines riding through big cities, beaches, deserts, and small simple towns with tiny populations on his Harley which sets the scene nicely, all the tune of some very cool music. It's American escapism television at it's best, and gets 10 out of 10 from me.

I remember watching this on TV in 93 to 97 and loved it then and love it more now.It takes me back to a better time in my life. The show had great music, scenery, bikes, chicks, Hummer H1, great story lines and Dutch Dixon. The acting was subpar, but who cares? The bike and Bobby Sixkiller make up for that! Lorenzo played the part of Raines perfectly.. and has never had a role that good and never will again. It was a great show to watch and kept you interested throughout the year. They don't make them like this anymore. I highly recommend getting the seasons on DVD ( Seasons 1,2 and3.. 4 and 5 are not available yet) Long live Reno Raines!

I don't want to spend much time on this: back the time I still owned a TV set 'Renegade' was the worst I've seen ever (probably because of such productions I gave up on watching TV and stick to cinema), I laughed the whole 40 minutes an episode lasted... unfortunately after having seen more than two episodes it gets boring and I started to wonder why such a series lasts so many seasons.

Renegade is my favorite TV show, and not just because Lorenzo Lamas is gorgeous. His character, Reno Raines, does the right thing even when it puts him in jeopardy. He has honor, integrity, and values that would do anyone proud. He (Lorenzo/Reno) is excellent at martial arts after studying since 1979 and the action is real. Lorenzo also collects classic Harleys,so he's not faking it on the bike either. This gives the show a very "real" feeling overall. When I was a child I watched Superman, The Lone Ranger, Zorro, and the show has some of the same elements. The hero must hide his true identity while helping others,but he's not in it for glory or publicity. He has a strong sense of right and wrong which seems to be missing in an awful lot of things lately. I know Lorenzo is busy these days with Air America and his family, but I think he could be persuaded to do a TV movie which would give closure to the show by nailing Dutch Dixon for his crimes and clearing Reno's name. I would love to see right triumph over wrong in Renegade.