Zorro (1990 TV Series) - Production Notes

Production Notes

  • The title sequence of the first episode differs from the one used in the rest of the series. The rest of the episodes' openings use the same opening theme, but different clips, and the song is performed by Cathi Campo (Rosemary Clooney's niece), rather than a male singer.
  • Patrice Martinez is credited as "Patrice Camhi" in the first three seasons of the series. She was married to producer-director Daniel Camhi during that time. (He did not work on this series.)
  • The bridle and breastplate worn by Toronado in this series is identical to the one worn by Toronado in the Alain Delon film Zorro and by Chico, the Queen's horse, in the syndicated television series Queen of Swords.
  • Both this series and Queen of Swords were filmed in Spain. Zorro was shot at studios outside of Madrid in 1990, and filming for Queen of Swords took place at the Texas Hollywood Studios in Southern Spain in 2000.
  • Henry Darrow is the first Latino actor to play the role of Zorro on television and the first actor to work in three different Zorro television series. He was the voice of Zorro in the animated series The New Adventures of Zorro (1981), and played the older Zorro in the short-lived CBS series Zorro and Son (1983) and Zorro's father in this series.
  • The original pilot (as included in the DVD boxed set Zorro: The Complete Series) focuses on a young man named Antonio de la Cruz, played by Patrick James, who is told by a mortally wounded Don Diego de la Vega to take on the mantle of Zorro. In this pilot Felipe is able to speak. Only Patrice Martinez albeit as a different character survived to the actual series. The pilot was filmed at Texas Hollywood.
  • Season 1 is currently available on Hulu.com

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