Zorro TV Series

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The colorized version of the first season was, yes.

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The first 16 episodes are up now for ordering on two discs from the Disney Movie Club over at ultimatedisney.com. But the regular price on DVDs over there is $21.95. Pretty steep for eight half-hour episodes. The folks over at the Disney Movie Club Forum can't even find out if it's the colorized version or black and white.

By the way, the last four episodes of ZORRO were hour-long shows shown on WALT DISNEY Presents. Does anybody know if they were filmed in color as was Swamp Fox etc.

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Sweet! I just hope Disney releases this well. I remember a certain fondness for that show when it was on the Disney Channel long ago.

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Looks like this is the Disney equivalent of Columbia House.

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I would strongly welcome a season by season release for "Zorro" as Guy Williams is one of the key reasons I enjoy "Lost in Space" so much. I'm not really up on "Zorro", sad to say, but as Mr. Williams seems to have a strong presence when he's on camera, I'm sure the show makes for very enjoyable viewing. It's '50s era swashbuckling adventure in glorious B&W--works for me. I'm just not amenable to the "Disney House" concept of selling DVDs, though and am still very disappointed with how they handled the "Elfego Baca"/"Swamp Fox" set.

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I had that price wrong: $24.90 postpaid for a single DVD at the Disney Movie Club.

If you wait until all five First Season Volumns (39 episodes) are out, to join the Disney Movie Club: The current join package would give you the five volumns for $30.85 postpaid. That's $.79 per episode. Regular pricing on the Second Season (39 episodes) and the four hour-long episodes, if they become availiable would be six volumns at $19.95 each plus about $8.95 for postage= $128.65.

Guy Williams was a wonderful Zorro, and the show was most entertaining. Action, stunts and humor. The use of music in the show was interesting. Each character, even Tornado, Zorro's horse, had their own theme song, which played when they entered the scene.

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I can handle getting the entire first season for around $31.00, provided that the membership offer remains the same when the remaining 3 volumes for season come out and that I can dissolve my membership easily enough. But I certainly don't see myself purchasing season 2 anytime soon once the initial offer runs dry--$128.65 for a season's worth of episodes, that would be a dubious record indeed! First off, though, I need to determine if the S1 episodes are colorized--if so, they can keep it.

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A poster at the Disney Movie Club Forum, says a Disney customer service rep., today, has confirmed that this release of ZORRO is the colorized version.

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It was alleged on the Ultimate Disney Forums that Disney's Zorro works were in limbo because of rights issue between Disney and the Zorro author's estate. Does this mean that this was resolved?

Also, that bit about the colorized version sucks! Can't Disney do anything right?

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Well, I recorded them from Disney Channel when they actually used to run good shows about 20 years ago. So I guess that means I'll be transferring them if it's that or colorized.

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Apparantly not. Just how many brain cells are required to come to the conclusion that overwhelmingly, fans of the show would want this set as it appeared in its original format and that the individuals that are 'frightened' by B&W wouldn't be especially interested in a 50 year old series anyway? But I guess if you put only 3 episodes of a series total of 8 on a DVD ("Swamp Fox"), anything is possible.

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I agree with all of you... the incomplete release of Swamp Fox sucks... the colorization (and exclusivity/expense) of Zorro sucks. Disney will probably never release the rest of the original Mickey Mouse Club.

I'm dying to collect everything from Walt's era (I don't give a damn about the crap they're producing these days)... things I vaguely remember from my childhood, and things I've never seen. But current Disney management is so damn greedy.

The Disney Movie Club offers some episodes of the Wonderful World of Disney...tv movies, etc. Something supposedly aimed at hardcore Disney collectors, since they're not in general release (or reasonably priced). And those are half-assed, barebones DVDs that don't even contain everything the old VHS version did! Complete rip-off. This isn't a matter of, "oh we didn't have time/energy to dig through the vaults to include everything we could have"... they're actively going out of their way to split up/omit things that were already easily available!

I feel like Disney's just taking advantage of their fans/customers, putting as little effort/money into releases as possible, spreeeeeeeading out their classic TV stuff onto as many releases as possible, all for the purpose of over-charging and making more money. They know that rabid Disney fans will pay insane prices for inferior, incomplete releases if that's the only way we can get these things we feel huge nostalgia for. Bastards.

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Excellent post, ChrisRose!

Today,UltimateDisney.com reports that (colorized) ZORRO Season One: Vols. 3,4, & 5, are now available to current members of the Disney Movie Club. These volumes complete Season One. ZORRO volumes are among the biggest sellers at the Disney Movie Club. At this time, these three latest Zorro volumes cannot be ordered as part of the join up package.

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Colorized = Poor Contrast + Poor Picture Quality which = No Sale.

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The strange Disney ZORRO sales strategy continues. Just five months after they first started offering ZORRO in five volumes at about $24.90 each postpaid, the Disney Movie Club is now offering club members, the five first season ZORRO discs boxed for $59.95 plus postage. No word yet if members who bought the five discs separately will be able to get the box.

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I'm new to the Forum.
I'm looking for clips from the 1950s Zorro TV series that i can combine with some home movies of the 1950s, in which my father filmed my birthday when all my friends dressed up as Zorro. We had sword fights on the lawn. I'd like to combine this old 8mm film, with clips from the TV Series. Will I have to buy the entire series to get a few clips of Guy Williams and Sargeant Garcia?
Since I'm a neophyte, will I have copy protection problems using a few scenes in a home video?
Thank you for any advice on this matter.
gmacosko

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Greg, Bill Cotter,the author of "The Wonderful World Of Disney Telivision" , has a Zorro site that has a couple of legal downloadable Zorro clips at his site: billcotter.com/zorro/video-clips.htm

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thanks for your help. If i bought zorro disks, would I be able to copy scenes into home videos?

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No, the Disney DVDs are copyguarded, and the moderators here don't want work-arounds discussed on these boards, so don't ask.(I don't know how,anyway.)

You could try the Disney VHS compilation tapes of the Zorro series. There were seven of them released in the mid-1980s. Amazon.com sells them.(search: VHS Zorro) The ones released in the white plastic cases were not copyguarded. I don't know about the re-releases in cardboard sleeves.

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forgive the embarrassing question from a neophyte. Thank you for informing me of proper etiquette for HomeTheater Forum. I thought movies & TV series from the '50s were not copyrighted.

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Colorization = No Sale

WALT DISNEY PRESENTS!!!!!

When push comes to shove it seems that these (major) DVD distribution companies always release the dullest, most lackluster and least interesting tv properties in their possession.

ZORRO (ABC 1957-59) is another rarity in my top 10 tv series want list but in the interim there were also 4 hour long ZORRO segments produced for the WALT DISNEY PRESENTS (ABC 1954-61) tv series that could all be handily packaged together in a WALT DISNEY TREASURES collection.

These segments consist of:

01) "El Bandido" (30/10/1960)
02) "Adios El Cuchillo" (06/11/1960)
03) "The Postponed Wedding" (01/01/1961)
04) "Auld Acquaintance" (04/02/1961)

Perhaps the two ZORRO tv episode compilation films THE SIGN OF ZORRO (1961) and ZORRO THE AVENGER (1962) could also be included (or failing that the still outstanding ELFEGO BACA segments).

At the very least let's get something positive started here! How about it Disney?! I'm sure that the late Walt Disney would certainly approve.

Jeff T.

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It seems the second season was released on France:
alapage . com/-/Fiche/DVDVideo/977940/zorro-saison-2-39-episodes-colorises-dans-un-coffret-de-6-dvd-.htm?fulltext=zorro&id=57661215677592&donnee_appel=ALAPAGE#characteristicsTech

Any chance both seasons will be released on Region 1?

Please check this out, about the first season:
billcotter . com/zorro/dvd.htm

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Wow, only five years after season 1!

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I recall an episode that traumatized me as a kid...the one where Zorro is fighting the Commandante on the roof and gets unmasked by him ("Don DIEGO!!!") and the guy falls from the roof. (whew)

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There is a rumor from Leonard Maltin that Zorro will be released as part of the Walt Disney Treasures Series in 2009. More about it in this thread.

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The Disney Movie Club has now released all of Zorro Season Two colorized, in five volumes. Now onto a restored complete black and white version.

The rumor on a Zorro release as part of the next Walt Disney Treasures Wave in Nov 2009 seems solid according to the HTF posters on the movie board.

Speculation is leaning towards the last four hour long Zorro Walt Disney Presents episodes as being most likely to get the Treasure treatment.

But I'll speculate that the first Zorro Treasure could turn out to be the thirteen episode "Monastario Arc" that introduced the series. Would it be out of the question for the whole next treasure wave be three Zorro tins??

As Zorro was shown on the Disney Channel and the colorized DVDs, the full opening is missing. This original missing opening featured the announcer saying: "The Walt Disney Studio Presents Zorro...Starring Guy Williams" and Zorro then takes his cape away from his face and comes out of the shadows and cuts a white animated 'Z' in the air with his sword and twirls the 'Z" as it telescopes up into the camera. This opening can be seen on some of the Zorro VHS episode compilation editions. I hope this opening will be restored to all the episodes along with any bumpers and scenes for next week.

The good thing about Zorro finally coming out as a Treasure is that maybe they will do the same great restoration job as they did with Dr. Syn. If Zorro had been done sooner as a general release it would probably been an 'as is' release of the unrestored B&W episodes shown on the Disney Channel.

Zorro will do well,and hopefully that will lead to more fifties Disney live action adventure mini- series from Walt Disney Presents.

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where can one get season 2?