Zorro (1990 TV series)
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7.9/10 TV Country of origin United States No. of seasons 4 First episode date 5 January 1990 Network Freeform | 6.9/10 IMDb Genre Action/Adventure, Drama Original language(s) English No. of episodes 88 (list of episodes) Final episode date 30 January 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 Latino 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). 88 episodes of the series were produced, 10 more than the first Zorro television series, which was produced by Disney in the late 1950s.
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Since 2011, the series is airing in the United States on Retro TV as The New Zorro. Peter Rodgers Organization is the distributor for this version of Zorro.
Plot outline
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
VHS
Two tapes of episodes from this series were released to the United States home video market in 1996. The first tape contains Parts 1–4 of "The Legend Begins" from the first season (which originally aired as a made-for-cable movie based on the series, and was released on VHS in that format), and the second tape contains the final four episodes of the series under the name A Conspiracy of Blood. Each tape's four episodes are presented as a 90-minute movie, with at least one scene in each movie that is not in the regular episodes.
DVD
Two separate DVD boxed sets are available in France. The episodes are dubbed in French and subtitled.
In 2009, the German company Kinowelt Home Entertainment released the complete first season of the series, dubbed in German.
The entire series is available on DVD in Region 1. In this set, the unique opening theme used in the series premiere is replaced by Campo's version, which was used in the rest of the series. Also, some of the episodes use the abbreviated version of the opening credits that appeared in reruns on The Family Channel. "The Legend Begins" is included in its episodic version, rather than as the expanded movie that was released on VHS.
There are rumors of a second Region 1 release of the entire series, but nothing is confirmed as yet.
Soundtrack
The Complete Zorro Soundtrack was released in 2012. It includes 25 tracks composed by Jay Asher and is available in CD and MP3 formats.