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Submitted by Kelly H
Remember when Zorro was about more than just poorly executed CGI and Catherine Zeta-Jones’ boobs? It was a simpler time, when kids regarded him as a hero and would emulate him by cutting masks out of their mother’s best fabric instead of regarding him as just another crappy Hollywood remake.
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It’s early on, but this is the first time I’ve seen the thumbs down beating the thumbs up. Whoa.
Well, now it’s a normal ratio
5:1 Thumbs up
I LOVED this show. Used to stay up late to watch it on Vault Disney… then they pulled it, so I recorded the entire marathon of the whole series on VHS. One of these days I’ll convert to DVD. Such an amazing show!!
I used to watch it on Vault Disney too! They have seasons 1 and 2 available on DVD now, I’ve got them both. Comes with original B&W and the recolored versions. So awesome. =D One of my favorite shows!
Vault Disney, yes! It showed a bit late where I live, but I got away with watching it because my parents would “watch over my shoulder”. It was fantastic. And do you guys remember the episode Annette Funicello co-starred in? That one was charming.
Squee, good to know I can find some episodes on the Tube!
Hah, yes!
Maybe, since I’m in possession of the whole series, I’ll have to start youtube-ing them for the world.
I did too!!!! I stayed with my grandmother a lot in the summer so she didn’t care if I stayed up super late to watch this EPICLY EPIC WIN on Vault Disney! They should use Zorro to replace all the epic fails on the Disney channel now…
They used to play this in the “After school” time slot when I was in second maybe thrid grade. I loved it!
Massive fail.
I don’t understand the overly-hostile attitude in the description for this.
Agreed.
I was going to give a thumbs up to the submission, but the uncalled for trolling on the description made me skip it instead.
The old Zorro was a good show for its time, much less cheesy than contemporaneous shows.
But that doesn’t make the new Zorro a (quote)”crappy Hollywood remake”(unquote). It was a good movie, entertaining both for kids and adults; and Antonio Banderas captured pretty well the concept of Zorro.
Too bad, a good submission diminished by a bad review.
THAT WAS NOT A CRAPPY REMAKE!!! MASK OF ZORRO IS AWSOME!!!! THIS POST IS AN EPIC FAIL!!!!!
dude, as far as remakes go, the zorro with antonio banderas and catherine zeta jones was NOT crap. rarely do you find remakes that well done.
Out of the niiight…
when the full moon is briiiiiight…
Oh, ‘eck I FORGOT the theme song!! Thanks for jarring the memory cells!! Now I’ll be trying to remember the rest!
Out of the night when the full moon is bright … comes the horseman known as Zorro! This bold renegade carves a Z with his blade, the Z that stands for Zorro! Zorro, Zorro, the fox so cunning and free, Zorro, Zorro, who makes the sign of the Z!
(And no I didn’t look it up, I actually REMEMBER it! I can do the theme from Maverick too … )
I’m jazzed — I posted this on the Voting column and it made the main page! I loved this show — Guy Williams was one of my big crushes, the original tall dark and handsome. And I disagree with the description (NOT mine) — I also love the Bandaras/Zeta Jones/Hopkins version (at least the first film, the second not so much), it was fun, old-style movie making on a grand scale. But this … this will always hold a special place in my heart.
batman was based on zorro
I loved Zorro so much. TT 3TT
When I was a kid I used to stay up late to watch it on disney channel.
Zorro was seriously my hero. ♥
Epic Win.
Stay…up….late….watch….on….Disney….channel? OMG I feel old. When I was I kid this was on the Micky Mouse club in the afternoons (The ORIGINAL Micky Mouse club with Annette…though, by the mid 1960’s it was into serious re-runs) I loved Zorro (and still do….in it’s many permientations). I’m still a sucker for rapier fights and capes, which explains something about my state of mind in general.
I never saw this show as a kid, but I discovered it much later on video. What a great show! I love everything about it!
LOVED this show as a kid. I remember tearing ass through the house with a lil Zorro mask on, pencil in hand, drawing “Z”’s all over the walls. God, was my mom pissed about me doing that. >~>
makes me yearn for the old WGN Chicago Sunday morning lineup..
Cisco Kid
Lone Ranger
Zorro
Rawhide
Wild, Wild West
Wagon Train
THAT’S what I remember: all those shows on Sunday in Chicago – and don’t forget it all wrapped up with Family Classics in the afternoon. It was great showing my kids and (sigh) grandkids all of these shows when they came out on video!
Another WGN fan! and how about Garfield Goose? sigh … back when kids TV was actually fun and had, y’know, writing … I remember all those shows well, you could do an epic win on any of them, and had a running correspondence with Frazier Thomas, the host of Family Classics, asking him questions about various movies (and even where the books came from — rebound copies of Encyclopedia Brittanica, as it happens)
I used to watch this as a kid, and I’d get all riled up. I once punctured an inflatable globe right in the americas by attacing it with a pencil. And my grandmother’s wardrobe still sports several etched “z”’s
Yet I never really noticed that they’d stopped showing it.
Oh, my gosh. I just got butterflied in my stomach when I saw this! (yep, I’m a loser, I accept it).
My grandma and I (god I miss her) used to watch this every night when I was a kid. Guy Williams was my second major crush (after Jack Wild as Dodger). *sigh* Yea, good times. My best friend and I used to sword fight with sticks in the yard because of this.
They sell it on DVD now? I’m there.
I had the BIGGEST crush on him too! Sigh. You can’t help but have a crush on a man named “Guy”… maybe that’s why I married a Williams?
LOL, I know! He was so hot! I used to watch Zorro all the time, still do on occasion too. It was an awesome show, very unique for its time, pretty darn good acting too.
And come on, who didn’t love Sgt. Garcia? He was the perfect, bumbling cop with a heart of gold that screwed everything up, half the time on purpose.
Epic win. The Zorro TV series (old black and white) was on the Disney channel during the 80s/90s. It still has class after all of these years.
Two bits! Four bits! Six bits! A peso!
All for Zorro, stand up and say so!
Zorro the Gay Blade was awesome!!
“Two fruits, one vegetable, and one flower…”
Wow. I’m only 22 years old, but I remember being a little kid and staying up “really late” to be able to watch an episode of Zorro from the Walt Disney Vault.
This guy was my hero. Funny thing is, my hero now is Subcommandante Marcos, another mask wearing defender of the people of meso-america.
*chuckles*
In high school i was on the fencing team. During my second year it just so happened that a new Zorro movie was coming out. I remember our coach recommending we see the movie in order to show us how NOT to fence.
Though i suppose it makes for more exiting cinema.
LOL. Most movie fencing is cinematic, not competition, fencing, it looks good on screen but is not technically correct, and would get you hurt or disqualified. And most of the onscreen fencers … weren’t (as much as I love him, Errol Flynn was supposedly terrible, but damn he looked good doing it). The exceptions, from what I’ve heard, were Stewart Granger (Scaramouche, Swordsman of Sienna, among others) and Basil Rathbone (Flynn’s nemesis in Robin Hood). but as you say, it makes for exciting cinema, so … what the heck. You can say the same about most gunfights or fistfights on screen too.
I know I’m a bit late with the comments but….
Damn I loves me some Zorro. I loved this show so much as kid I think I would rate Zorro higher n the ‘hero list’ than Batman.
Plus he had an awesome horse.
I LOVE Zorro!! I have 5 video tapes taped off of Vault Disney!
Some kid drew a great big Z on my new winter coat back in the day.
Oh my goodness…I used to have the biggest crush on Guy Williams. I still have a collector’s card of him from when I was 10.