After starting life as
The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour, the 1980 CBS cartoon series later added the rapier-wielding Don Diego and changed the name to
The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour. Filmation produced cartoons for Tarzan, the Lone Ranger (voiced by William Conrad) and El Zorro. The Edgar Rice Burroughs estate retained the rights to all the
Tarzan segments, but the cartoons for The Lone Ranger and Zorro went to Entertainment Rights along with the Filmation library, and the DVD rights were then licensed to Navarre-owned BCI in the
ER-BCI deal of early 2006.
BCI is prepping a
January release of
The Lone Ranger/Zorro - Volume 1 on DVD. This will be a 2-disc set: one DVD with
The Lone Ranger and the other featuring
Zorro cartoons. There will also be a Lou Scheimer interview about
The Lone Ranger included. Final street date isn't available yet, nor is cost or cover art. But stay tuned for that, and for info about the
Volume 2 release plans that BCI has for later on in 2008, with the rest of the episodes for both cartoons.
