Thu, Jan 25, 1990
The alcalde has the Indian camp ransacked, leaving Zorro's mark so as to turn the whole pueblo against the 'bandit', finds copper ore on Indian land, and has a fake Zorro, a master-swordsman, rob the church's poor box, which convinces most of the villagers. The real one rides to investigate, finds the alcalde's geology report, and overhears him plan a fake duel with the impostor. The alcalde confiscates the Indian land but both 'duelists' are defeated by the real Zorro.
Thu, Feb 8, 1990
The de la Vegas are surprised poor farmer Maceas offers them a free load of beans, because he believes Zeus, a fine stallion he nursed to racing shape after Don Esteban ordered it put down, will win him a fortune from a certain Señor Herrera. The whole pueblo bets on the race, after Don Diego won a friendly challenge accepted by Don Alejando, but remarked the stranger held his horse back, the alcalde even wagers 4,000 pesos of taxes collected for the governor. Zeus loses, but it soon appears only because he was poisoned; the alcalde confiscates everything Maceas owns, 'including this miserable horse'. The only one who can win the fortune back is Zorro on Toronado, but appearing when and where the alcalde knows him to is reckless...
Thu, Feb 15, 1990
When Zorro finds a few bandits' spoils, the loot includes a 'bundle of joy' they are glad to be rid of: a baby-girl, stolen, as Diego guesses rightly from the cloths, from Russian immigrants, who are flooding California at the time, and changes the alcalde's mind from 'not interested' to 'alcalde's job' by posting a 500-peso reward. Poor Felipe is stuck sitting the crybaby, so he literally begs Zorro to ride and get more willing help from Señorita Victoria Escalante, who proves very maternal. The alcalde tries to arrest both for 'kidnapping' Natasha Petrov - now sergeant Mendoza is appointed involuntary nurse, while the alcalde demands 1000 pesos for the 'kidnapped' child, but Zorro is near...
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Fri, Feb 16, 1990
The alcalde promises the pueblo a direct route to San Pedro, the Ramone highway, but press-gangs 'recruits' to build it. When Don Alejandro rides off to complain to the territorial governor in Monterrey, Sergeant Mendoza is ordered to stop him. Zorro rides to distract the lancers, but gets shot and falls into a canyon, at first sight dead. When Toronado comes home alone, Felipe follows him and climbs bravely down. Too badly wounded to get up, Zorro reminisces how it all started: after his studies at Madrid university and fencing lessons with Sir Edmond Kendall, his being recalled home and meeting Alcalde Luis Ramone.
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Fri, Feb 16, 1990
Desperate for a hiding place in the canyon, the wounded Zorro reminisces further how he showed Felipe his set-up in the hacienda's secret escape trough the fireplace to the hideout cave. The alcalde's arrests of Don Alejandro and Victoria Escalante and Mendoza's uttering that nothing scares soldiers more then the unknown inspired Don Diego to invent the mysterious black-cloaked and -masked man, named after the cunning fox ('zorro' in Spanish) found in the hideout by Felipe, who proved an ideal assistant once Diego found out the mute boy was not deaf. Zorro was born as a creature of the night, freeing the senorita and his father. To Victoria's shock, the alcalde celebrates Zorro's alleged death, while Mendoza's lancer detail returns to the canyon to shoot a load of bullets trough the cloaked body.
Fri, Feb 16, 1990
The lancers climb down in the canyon, and find not Zorro's corpse but his cloths on a dummy made from branches; Toronado frees and chases their horses without anyone giving him instructions; Felipe helps Diego stay hidden under water, breeding trough a reed. Diego reminisces how he wanted an unknown horse for Zorro, and Felipe helped him find, catch, name, and train the wild black stallion after saving his foal. When the alcalde plans to execute Don Alejandro just for escaping from jail, Zorro prepares his lab in the cave and a flying contraption à la da Vinci, launched from Felipe's riding horse-cart...
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Fri, Feb 16, 1990
Zorro and Felipe bravely made their last stand, but face only their horses: Toronado even found a way out so they get home. Mendoza returns with nothing but Zorro's costume and still gets the 500 pesos reward, but is taxed on his windfall during military service - 100%. Diego learns from Dr. Hernandez the news of Zorro's death makes the alcalde even crueler, but is too weak to stand up. Victoria tells him the alcalde resumes the forced labor, invents new taxes even on income, and prepares a memorial service with a fake Zorro-corps to bury the myth.
Thu, Mar 1, 1990
Robbers take the garrison's pay; Don Alejandro de la Vega witnesses that and tries to stop them, but gets knocked down, hard; Victoria finds him and brings him to the hacienda, where Doctor Hernandez concludes he may never come out of his coma again. Don Diego is heartbroken, feels guilty he may never get a chance to tell his father about his secret life as Zorro. The alcalde blames the crime on Zorro and the doctor sighs the only medicine that might give Alejandro a fighting chance was stolen with the gold. It's high time Zorro rides again...
Thu, Mar 8, 1990
The traveling Frenchman Foucard impresses the pueblo, even ever-skeptical Don Diego, as magician and pickpocket, then romances Victoria and performs various science-based services to various villagers. Sergeant Mendoza must command the protection of a gold shipment, but as earlier near San Francisco, it is robbed by someone who uses a fireball. Even Zorro was too late and finds Foucard asleep, from a distance.
Thu, Mar 15, 1990
Spanish royal army Colonel Mefisto Palomarez, the dreaded butcher of the Yucatan campaign, soon loses the alcalde's admiration when he announces he has come to eliminate Zorro but does so by drawing lots to execute daily one inhabitant of the pueblo until Zorro hangs, even though nobody knows his identity, and exempting nobody - the first victim is Sergeant Mendoza! Zorro makes a nocturnal visit offering the colonel a fair duel instead, but is arrested.
Thu, Mar 22, 1990
Sebastian Moreno, an author from Spain, arrives in the pueblo to write the story of Zorro and his true identity. He soon witnesses the hero saving Victoria and some guests from two robbers; he ignores how close he is while he is Don Alejandro's guest at the de la Vega hacienda, but accidentally triggers the secret mechanism of the fireplace door, luckily seen by Diego in time to stop him entering. The alcalde makes Sergeant Mendoza follow Moreno everywhere for weeks, to no avail. Then Sebastian tells the de la Vegas he'll just pretend to know Zorro's identity to lure him; they warn him the alcalde would not let him go without divulging the secret, but he persists. Zorro fakes a revolution aided by Yankees in the village to divert the alcalde - who strikes at Moreno.
Thu, Mar 29, 1990
The alcalde is delighted to hear Leonardo Montez, who hid the jewel he stole from the Guadelupe mission sanctuary in Santa Barbara, has escaped in the pueblo's direction and probably comes to retrieve it. Felipe just signs that Diego's painting 'Mona Lisa of the Puebla' resembles Señorita Escalante when Victoria enters in the flesh to report the alcalde just arrested Leonardo. Zorro rides to prevent the ecclesiastical treasure changing hands between both greedy criminals and frees Leonardo under the nose of the alcalde and some lancers, bringing him blindfolded to the secret barn, where the bolting stallion Toronado keeps him in. After Felipe, who checked on them, overhears Leonardo tell the horse that he stole 'only' the jewel, the thief is released so they can follow him to the hiding place, where Zorro must first get rid of a local cougar.
Thu, Apr 12, 1990
Diego looked forward to the arrival of the new mission padre Benitez, whom he knows from correspondence on ornithology. The priest who greets Don Alejandro proves a brute who claims to take orders only from the cardinal; he makes all caballeros triple their contributions, for unnecessary renovations, and has his servant Carlos falsely arrested for stealing the church silver. Diego notices the handwriting is different- Zorro rides at night and hears him haggle the alcalde's share. In the morning Carlos is to be whipped, but Zorro brings the silver, denounces the false priest, and chases him in vain.
Thu, Apr 26, 1990
Diego's photographic experiment after Joseph Eeps is a bright failure, twice. Señor Casey Hawkes' gold transport worth 6000 pesos for the Spanish colonies to the north, where Russians must be kept away, is raided by Indians; although Diego remarks their arrows are unknown, a bounty is awarded on every Indian's head. When Zorro saves some innocent local Indians, Hawkes' men attempt to apprehend him, only to be delivered to jail themselves; the alcalde quickly releases them. With Victoria's help, Zorro searches Hawkes' room at her inn and follows him to his gang of fake-Indian gold robbers...
Thu, May 3, 1990
Don Diego and Victoria suspect that the female medium Miyarana, who claims to speaks to deceased loved ones of mainly the rich people in the pueblo and her travel companion Ricardo Quintano, who sells the poor 'magic' stones, are frauds. Zorro finds out they pay the alcalde 20% for insight in his official records, so they can dazzle their dupes with private facts. After Don Alejandro finds them fakes, he is threatened; Don Diego comes to his defense and is made to duel Ricardo, but Zorro acts first...
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Thu, May 10, 1990
The alcalde is delighted with an invitation for a birthday party at the inn with the nobility, but Mendoza got one too, while Don Diego and Don Alejandro doubt if the alcalde really throws a birthday party for Mendoza. Yet they all go and are, with Victoria, knocked down and tied up with a lighted fuse to a powder keg by Ricardo Quintana, who spent eight months in prison where his partner in crime Myatana died. As he leaves saying their dreams will all go up in smoke, they spend their presumed last minutes dreaming what could have been: for the alcalde and Mendoza, promotions, for Victoria, Zorro's love.
Thu, May 17, 1990
The stage coach brings two visitors to Los Angeles. Firstly there is Victoria's brother, colonial army Lieutenant Francisco Escalante, who concludes after a meal with Mendoza that the garrison is in no condition to resist a U.S. annexation attempt; the alcalde promises him a post - if he captures Zorro. Furthermore a woman claims to be the mother of Jose del Reynoso - Felipe?! Don Diego recalls how he adopted the boy after finding the orphan, probably mute from trauma, at the August Revolution battlefield, under the cart where real father lay dead; none of the nearby villagers would take him, so he became Diego's intimate confident. Given the free choice, Felipe decides to be finally reunited with his mother, and accepts to accompany her to Mexico City; while they drive off, Francisco remarks Felipe resembles strikingly his friend Emilio Alvarado, a banker. When Victoria informs Don Diego, Zorro rides like lightning, and not too soon: the imposter already delivered Felipe, 'worth his weight in gold', to her accomplice. The Fox tracks the vilest villains ever and has Felipe deliver them, only to be attacked by Francisco and next by the alcalde...
Thu, May 24, 1990
The hated colonel Mefisto Palomarez returns waving a royal re-grant of all lands in the territory - to him, so he takes residence at the de la Vega hacienda, but accepts Don Alejandro's suggestion to have the document authenticated by an impartial non-land owner: Sergeant Mendoza. Thanks to ever-loyal Felipe, Diego learns the colonel plans to sell the pueblo to the Britton Bickel. Zorro manages to look at the parchment and finds it a brilliant forgery, but gets scarred by Palomarez with a mysterious deadly poison...
Thu, Sep 13, 1990
The peddler and inventor Doctor Henry Wayne presents the pueblo varied unusual products, such as a vacuum-cleaner. The alcalde has only one commission for him: a trap to catch Zorro. Diego, whose failed Montgolfier-balloon amuses Felipe, pretends to help but doesn't, so Wayne sets his traps with the alcalde, who provides the right bate: the supposed execution of senorita Victoria Escalante. When Zorro manages to catch them in their own trap, the alcalde gives Wayne a last change, finding the fox's hide-out, so he builds a Montgolfier-balloon, which works out even nastier for the alcalde and sergeant Mendoza...
Thu, Sep 20, 1990
When Diego's fencing teacher at Madrid university, Sir Edmond Kendall, arrives by stagecoach in Los Angeles and refuses as British knight to pay the travelers tax, he fights the lancers and is appalled Diego fakes being unable to win, rather paying for him. The alcalde orders Mendoza to finds out about him; don Alejandro knows him since 30 years, but releases nothing useful. At the hacienda, sir Edmund and Diego, who were training together, are shot at by two men; he recognizes them as Sanchez and Figueroa, kills one and sneers Diego shouldn't have spared the other as they want Edmund dead: they are bounty-hunters and the price on his head is because of an unjust association with revolutionaries among his students. The other bounty-hunter informs the alcalde of a royal 5,000 pesos reward, so the alcalde sets a trap and shoots the Britton badly, but he manages to flee into the mission church, where don Alejandro can claim sanctuary for him; it's surrounded, with Diego also inside, but Felipe drops his Zorro costume; even wounded at night, Sir Edmund recognizes his best ever pupil's fencing, finally proud, but dies from his wounds...
Thu, Sep 27, 1990
While the De la Vega's are off to a cattle auction, pirate captain Henry Stark of the Golden Lion, who lost half his crew, raids Los Angeles for pressed laborers, the alcalde's horse, even Victoria and Felipe, passing the De la Vega's on their way out; don Alejandro rides to the garrison, Diego pretends just to lay a trail but actually is caught himself while he frees Felipe, who rides to the hacienda, saddles Toronado and next morning brings Diego, who already loosened his ropes, the Zorro costume and saber, so he can prove to the pirates, who were about to take the Manlack cemetery treasure, their fiendish cutlasses are no match for his noble blade, nor the alcalde, who was also after the treasure.
Thu, Oct 4, 1990
Señorita Amanda Herrera, a surveyor's daughter who is the guest of the De la Vega's, captures Sergeant Jaime Mendoza's heart a first sight, for once more attractive then Victoria's food, but private Pedro Sanchez gets her to dance, so he pesters the poor soldier, even with latrine duty, hoping to make him demand a transfer. Diego and Alejandro coach his courting, an even heavier duty. Alas she has still another, higher-ranking suitor, the alcalde, and falls for none. Zorro rode against the same two bandits the alcalde sent his love rivals searching for, so he can call by at the hacienda with roses, only to be captured liked everybody else, so Zorro coaches the bumbling lancers to rush to the rescue; Mendoza takes credit and after a kiss from her proposes to Amanda...
Thu, Oct 11, 1990
Sir Miles Thackery, Europe's most famous fencer, arrives at Los Angeles, asks who's the best with the blade in the pueblo and immediately challenges and defeats unsuspectingly self-declared sergeant Mendoza, next the alcalde. As victorious champion he decrees that during his stay everyone is at his service, the alcalde even as valet. Don Alejandro is cheated out off a good part of his prize bull's auction price, everyone gets offended and abused, even Victoria, so Diego duels Miles, but as he can't betray himself being Zorro pretends to have hurt his ankle. Zorro accepts a truce with the desperate alcalde, who even becomes his fencing pupil. When Sir Miles still triumphs, a blade-wielding clash of the titans is inevitable, the victorious inspired by something Felipe read in a letter from France...
Thu, Oct 18, 1990
On the governor's order, each pueblo in the territory is given a printing press to start its own newspaper, supposedly to promote free speech. Don Diego volunteers as editor of the 'Los Angeles Guardian'. Felipe reports outlaws attack farmers in the northern valley- Zorro rides to ambitious José Rivas's rescue. Helped by don Alejandro at the press and Felipe, Diego exposes the alcalde's abuses, while Victoria starts a hearts column 'donna Corazon' and Mendoza a culinary one 'Señor Estomago'. Being the brain behind the racketeering, the alcalde decides to take over the troublesome paper, aided by the sergeant, who tends to replace nouns by some food. Diego is incarcerated, but escapes as Zorro after Felipe brought his costume and food with sleep potion, in time to help José and prepare a nasty chemical surprise for the oppressor of the press...
Thu, Oct 25, 1990
After singlehandedly chasing off five robbers, Zorro is bitten by a rattlesnake, and collapses at the farm of robber chief Alisio Turron, whose life he just spared in a recklessly engaged fencing duel; his wife Magdalena nurses the fox, resisting her initial temptation to collect the alcalde's fat cash reward on his head, but Alisio, whose Z-marked shirt she was about to mend, finds them, cowardly attacks Zorro who must fence left-handed, loses and rides to the alcalde, whose burning desire to get the fox proves too ardent once he and the lancers reach the Turron farm...
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Thu, Nov 1, 1990
Zorro rides to expose the alcalde's gross tinkering with the market weights, but this time an Indian scout, Grey Wing, is waiting to follow his trail and thus earn the horse he admires as no other, and he is really good. Diego and Felipe drive sheep over the plaza, but the scout picks up the rail, so Diego sends Felipe to lay a false trail riding Toronado, while he offers his services to point out the dangerous new quicksands on the De la Vega estate. The Indian reads every sign brilliantly, till poor Felipe, who can't ride as fast, sees no other way out then hiding in a dangerous abandoned mine-shaft, while Toronado runs back alone. Diego manages to go in alone, but Mendoza is sent in by the alcalde with the scout and causes an explosion...
Thu, Nov 15, 1990
Mendoza was looking forward to the alcalde being away in Santa Barbara for two days, leaving a curfew meanwhile, but the tyrant rides in town early - as a changed man, charming and courteous to everyone, even 'courting' Victoria, till he suddenly is his old wicked self again, then sweet Luis himself suddenly smells a rat from his past, called Vincente Ramon, and finds him a problem which gets surprisingly solved by Zorro...
Sat, Nov 24, 1990
When the alcalde sabotages Victoria's plan to bring the Indians survival supplies by forbidding all citizens to enter the Indian land, the Yankee Joshua Barnes steps in to drive her cart. Zorro prevents a lancer shooting Joshua. Barnes buys some De la Vega land to become a farmer, but the alcalde has that annulled because he's a foreigner and has him arrested for refusing to prove his loyalty to the crown by catching Zorro. Then the three Harper brothers arrive, hoping to revenge their father Jake's dead on Joshua. The alcalde offers them to release Barnes if they first eliminate Zorro, Joshua protection if he collaborates. Zorro intervenes, well-prepared...
Sat, Dec 1, 1990
The alcalde and his troops run off an Indian tribe from the land surrounding Los Angeles, but a young Indian girl named Kinona is left behind. She is rescued by Zorro and taken in by the de la Vegas. Kinona and Felipe fall in love, but the alcalde has other plans for the girl. To make matters worse, Kinona is already betrothed to a warrior named Black Feather, who now sees Felipe as an enemy.
Sat, Dec 8, 1990
The Falcon, a felon with such bird of prey and two accomplices, considers Los Angeles an ideal prey because of its corrupt alcalde, provided he can set a suitable trap for Zorro. The alcalde's new taxes, to pay for extravagant 400 pesos boots, allow the Falcon to spark a revolution by distributing silver coins, which don Diego chemically traces to the bank robbery in Guadalajara. When don Alejandro warns the people against revolt, he is kidnapped as bate to a fatal trap in the mountains. Zorro rides to deal with both thieving fiends...
Sat, Dec 15, 1990
It's Christmas and Don Diego is depressed, less because of his bad cold then his father's sneers that he should at least have been protesting while Zorro singlehandedly saved innocent villager Friez from flogging by the alcalde. He decides to give the party at Victoria's a miss, and wonders if Zorro's endless crime-fighting really matters, since he never gets closer to his true love or gets any credit for his feats as the masked mystery man he created. Then magically appears Don Fernando, apparently an angel of fate, who shows Diego how disastrously worse everyone's life except the evil alcalde's would be without Zorro...