Anyone familiar with 'The New World Zorro' ?

[JesterFace]

Do you know this series that ran for 88 episodes originally from 1990 to 1993?
As a kid it was my favourite and I think I still like it. There were some silly episodes but some are more serious.

There are few familiar faces in the series that have appeared in Star Trek, Zorro himself Duncan Regehr, Henry Darrow and J.G. Hertzler.

 

[JesterFace]

It's been about a month since I posted this thread....
I am the only one here who remembers this series?

 

[Morpheus 02]

Was it called New World Zorro ? I vaguely remember Duncan in that type of show (I remember him more from that sword and sorcery show on CBS)

 

[JesterFace]

Was it called New World Zorro ? I vaguely remember Duncan in that type of show (I remember him more from that sword and sorcery show on CBS)

The opening titles just says 'Zorro'.
Apparently this series is known by few different names including The New Zorro, New World Zorro and Zorro 1990.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I was kind of aware of the show as a child, but wasn't allowed to watch it*. I've looked into it a couple of times over the years, though I couldn't find full episodes. It had Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Zorro's father Don Alejandro de la Vega in season one, and Patrice Martinez of "Three Amigos" fame as the love interest Victoria. I also stumbled over a clip a couple of years ago from an episode with a young Daniel Craig as the villain of the week.



*I wasn't allowed to watch a lot of TV until I was about twelve. Of the five Star Trek rerun episodes per week, I was only allowed to watch one. I have four brothers, and when one of us was watching TV, all of us were watching TV, so I kind of get where my mom came from on this.

 

[Christopher]

It had Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Zorro's father Don Alejandro de la Vega in season one

Replaced in the rest of the series by Henry Darrow, who was the first Latino actor to play Zorro/Don Diego, in the 1980 Filmation animated series and three years later in the very short-lived sitcom bomb Zorro and Son.

That makes Darrow one of the few people to appear in three different Zorro productions. I'm only aware of two others. George J. Lewis played supporting roles in the Republic Serials Zorro's Black Whip (which had nothing to do with Zorro besides the title, being about a female Zorro-like character in the American Old West) and Ghost of Zorro (with a pre-Lone Ranger Clayton Moore as Zorro's grandson) before he went on to play Don Alejandro in the 1950s Disney series. And Don Diamond, Corporal Reyes in the '50s series, voiced Sgt. Gonzales in the '80 animated series and had a bit part in a Zorro and Son episode.

I can think of a few others who appeared in two different Zorro incarnations: Noah Beery was the villain in the 1920 silent movie The Mark of Zorro and the first Republic serial Zorro Rides Again, and the 1974 TV movie remake of the 1940 The Mark of Zorro featured two guest villains from the 1960-61 Disney Zorro specials, Ricardo Montalban and Gilbert Roland. (Not counting actors who appeared in two movies in the same continuity, e.g. Douglas Fairbanks, Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Tony Amendola.)

 

[Nerys Myk]

New World Zorro sounds like an odd title to me, since Zorro usually takes place in in The New World.

 

[N-121973]

If I'm not mistaken I believe it was shown here in Britain on Saturday early-evenings on ITV and they attempted to ride the coat-tails of the 1989 Batman film. I may have caught an episode or two.

 

[JesterFace]

New World Zorro sounds like an odd title to me, since Zorro usually takes place in in The New World.

I think the new world part in the name comes from the production company involved with the series.

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

It does. Fans added it to distinguish it from the previous Zorro series starring Guy Williams which they later called Disney Zorro.

 

[Skipper]

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