1990's Family Channel series
Zorro (a.k.a.
The New Zorro) starred Duncan Regehr (
The Monster Squad, V: The Series), Patrice Martinez (
Beetlejuice), Henry Darrow (
The High Chaparral and three other
Zorro TV shows) and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (
77 Sunset Strip, The F.B.I., Batman: The Animated Series). Roughly half of the television incarnations of
Zorro have had some sort of DVD release in the past, but so far this popular version has not been one of them. Somehow, though, we overlooked the good news
announced earlier this year at Zorro.com!
As of January, 2010 Zorro Productions, Inc. (ZPI) has acquired rights in the 88 half hour live-action episodes created by New World Television, and most recently owned by FOX. ZPI's rights extend to most countries in the world, but not to all (the major exclusions are Germany, France, and Spain).
In the coming months ZPI will introduce this series to TV and DVD buyers all over the world.
Our thanks to reader Ken Todd for filling us in about this info! Since the news was actually from back in January, and since they say to expect more "in the coming months," it seemed logical to Ken that we should be able to find out more about this by now, so he asked us to do some digging.
What we've learned is that there is no release schedule nailed down yet, and that the plans for release are still in-the-works. They hope to have it available sometime to this year, but there's nothing specific available so far in the way of a date. It will be available in the USA, but a distribution method hasn't been nailed down so far, either (so we're unable to tell you if this will be sold in stores, or only online, or what).
It's good to know that this is being prepared, but it sounds like everything's still early...too early to be finalized yet. Stay tuned, though, and we'll update you as further developments occur!
