Zorro | |
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Genre |
Action/Adventure Drama |
Starring | See Cast and characters |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 88 (list of episodes) |
Production company(s) | New World Television (U.S.), The Family Channel (U.S.), Ellipse Programme of Canal Plus (France), Beta TV (Germany), and RAI (Italy) |
Distributor |
Peter Rodgers Organization Zorro Productions, Inc. |
Release | |
Original network | The Family Channel |
Original release | January 5, 1990 | – January 30, 1993
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.
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.
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.
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