Zorro
Genre	Action/Adventure Drama
Starring	Duncan Regehr Patrice Martinez Juan Diego Botto James Victor Michael Tylo J. G. Hertzler Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Henry Darrow
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	88 (list of episodes)
Production
Production companies	Goodman/Rosen Productions Zorro Productions, inc. New World Television
Original release
Network	The Family Channel
Release	January 5, 1990 (1990-01-05) – January 30, 1993 (1993-01-30)

Zorro (also known as The New Zorro, New World Zorro, and Zorro 1990) is an American action-adventure drama series featuring Duncan Regehr as the character of Zorro. Regehr portrayed the fearless Spanish hero and fencer on The Family Channel from 1990 to 1993. The series was shot entirely in Madrid, Spain and produced by New World Television (U.S.), The Family Channel (U.S.), Ellipse Programme of Canal Plus (France), Beta TV (Germany), and RAI (Italy).^[1] 88 episodes of the series were produced, Raymond Austin directed 55 episodes and produced 37. There were 10 more episodes made than the first Zorro television series, which was produced by Disney in the late 1950s.

Since 2011, the series is airing in the United States on Retro Television Network as The New Zorro.^[2] Sony Pictures is the distributor for this version of Zorro.

Synopsis

The series is set in early 19th-century Spanish California. When the commandant of Los Angeles, Alcalde Luis Ramone, terrorizes the people of the pueblo and oppresses them, Don Alejandro de la Vega summons home from Spain his son Diego to fight the alcalde and his men. When Diego arrives, he finds his town in a sorry state, and while pretending to have little interest in anything but books and his experiments, he creates the secret identity of El Zorro: The Fox. He and his mute servant, the teenage Felipe, battle the alcalde's tyranny.

Cast and characters

Episodes

Production

Out of the 88 produced episodes director Raymond Austin directed 55 and directed and produced 37. He also camera operated 83 episodes.

The title sequence of the first episode differs from the one used in the rest of the series. The rest of the episodes' openings use the same opening theme, but different clips, and the song is performed by Cathi Campo (Rosemary Clooney's niece), rather than a male singer.

Patrice Martinez is credited as "Patrice Camhi" in the first two seasons of the series.^[4] She was married to producer-director Daniel Camhi during that time.^[5][6] (He did not work on this series.)

Zorro's horse is usually named Tornado, but in this series he has been renamed Toronado. The bridle and breastplate worn by Toronado in this series are identical to the one worn by Zorro's horse in the Alain Delon film Zorro (1975) and by Chico, the Queen's horse, in the syndicated television series Queen of Swords (2000-2001).

Both this series and Queen of Swords were filmed in Spain. Zorro was shot at studios outside of Madrid in 1990, and filming for Queen of Swords took place at the Texas Hollywood Studios in Southern Spain in 2000.

Henry Darrow is the first? Latino actor to play the role of Zorro's father on television.

Darrow was the first actor to work in three different Zorro television series.^[7][8] He was the voice of Zorro in the animated series The New Adventures of Zorro (1981), and played the older Zorro in the short-lived CBS series Zorro and Son (1983) and Zorro's father in this series.

The original pilot (as included in the DVD boxed set Zorro: The Complete Series) focuses on a young man named Antonio de la Cruz, played by Patrick James, who is told by a mortally wounded Don Diego de la Vega to take on the mantle of Zorro. In this pilot Felipe is able to speak. Only Patrice Martinez albeit as a different character survived to the actual series. The pilot was filmed at Texas Hollywood.

Release

References

External links

• Zorro Productions, Inc.
• Zorro at IMDb
• Zorro at epguides.com
• Zorro on Hulu.com
• New World Zorro (fan site)
• Series intro