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- Victoria's cart is attacked by bandits; Zorro jumps on but it crashed, he must carry her to the secret cave, which is nearly discovered by the bandidos, who find the 1,000 pesos mortgage on the tavern she was carrying in a sacred compartment. Felipe must stop Zorro / don Diego twice passing the fireplace-passage without changing costume, and Victoria gets him to accept revealing his true identity, but the fiends need more urgent attention, making him realize she may never know, and yet...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Everybody considers Diego a hopeless bachelor, but Victoria a good catch who should stop waiting for Zorro and marry. The local matchmaker fails a few times until she agrees to go to the altar with Spanish Navy Lieutenant Juan Ortiz, or will she be loyal to her true love? The alcalde meanwhile practices true hate, planning to destroy Zorro by means of a shrapnel canon he has brought in as a royal statue under suspiciously heavy guard, first as a trap for Zorro, who just climbs out of it, then pointed at the crowd at Victoria's wedding, which nobody would give a miss, least of all Zorro...
- Don Diego, who uses the alias Salvador Gilarranz, is arrested but escapes before Rosalinda's coach reaches the fortress. Zorro rides on and finds Victoria's youngest brother Ramon lurking around, together they climb in. Inside the alcalde and Victoria plead in vain for her father, so she goes to liberate the prisoners herself, overpowering Rosalinda, is helped by Mendoza, Zorro deals with the troops. Meanwhile the alcalde has his own secret agenda, which turns out crucial for the grandfather in the present too...
- Zorro tries to save his father's friend Don Carlos from a shady gambler called Bishop who's challenged him to a pistol duel over a throwaway insult.
- 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...
- Tired of Zorro escaping him and his lancers, the alcalde spends 5,000 pesos - half the pueblo's annual budget- on Mariposa, a white mount in Toronado's class. To pay for it, he levies a heavy tax on all civilian horses, which draws out Zorro, who is chased and finds Mariposa does keep up, even jumps a ravine like his stallion. Zorro finds the mountain stream they both drink from at Blindman's Buff is poisoned, causing digestive pain and temporary blindness, but even warned the alcalde plans to use his short advance to catch Zorro rather then help each-other...
- Don Emilio Alonzo gets a fine gentleman's welcome in Los Angeles and on the de la Vega hacienda when collecting taxes for the Spanish king Ferndinand. Alas the next day the pueblo is visited by senor Zelaya, another royal tax collector, who turns out to be the real one: don Emilio is just a clever alibi of the brilliant conman El Conejo ('the rabbit'), 12,000 pesos are due as annual levy anyway. To top it, the fake even stole the precious Andalusian stallion the de la Vegas named Emilio in his honor, so Don Alejandro is as determined as the alcalde and his lancers to chase the fraudster; don Diego is ordered to join, but Felipe follows unseen with Zorro's equipment so he can do what neither dad nor posse can as soon as Diego has shaken them, after liberating the alcalde's party from the explosives-rigged cave the rabbit trapped for them. Alas the merciless monster even set another trap which catches Felipe, and leaves the boy hanging in it to die, his last leverage for liberty once Zorro has outsmarted and outlived a fiery battle of wits and tricks...
- Sergeant Mendoza reports to the alcalde that Francisco and Estaban Carvalho, the sons -and as their private correspondence points out posthumously, spies- of the chief minister of the Spanish colonial office, were found dead and dying on their ranch, victims of a mysterious, fatal disease. The fact that Felipe gets stomach-ache shortly after finding a dying bird at the nearby Old Oak Creek while his own and don Alejandro's horses both go crazy a while after drinking water on the also neighboring Carvalho ranch inspire don Diego to chemically test water samples: lead sulphate, from a failed fertilizer experiment, and sergeant Mendoza is made to tell what the previous alcalde, Luis Roman, bought the entire stock for and what he did with it...
- 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.
- A grandfather shows his girl Laura the hide-out cave, and finds there Diego De la Vega's diary about the Devil's fortress, which was used as a feared political prison. Victoria showed a letter, allegedly from her father Alfonso's cell mate, if true he didn't die in the Mexican revolution but is seriously ill. Diego volunteers to go there to speak to the commandant, actually Zorro comes in his saddle bag after promising Victoria his help. The alcalde orders Mendoza to accompany him on a week's trip to the fortress, he wanted an excuse since years, so they go plead señorita Escalante's case; mistrusting she follows them, alone. On the way Zorro saves a runaway stagecoach, the passenger Rosalinda de la Fuente is ungrateful enough to try to deliver the masked savior to the fortress's patrol when she recognizes the Parsian perfume from the handkerchief she gave him on Diego's unmasked person... [see Part 2]
- 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...
- Don Alejandro gets a surprise visit from three mates of his fifth Spanish cavalry days 30 years ago, captain Carlos Frontera, sergeant Pablo Escobar and private Juan Reyes, who tell him their old enemy Cordoba, a traitor who shot Alejandro's brother in the back, is still alive, the trio followed him throughout California to Canyon de las Piedras, a 'natural fortress' near Los Angeles. Alas neither of the veterans quartet is physically still up to the job, yet all are blinded by pride and hate, so Diego's warnings are ignored. Zorro rides to babysit them discretely and sees to it that the yellow fiend finally gets what he deserves...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- A group of bandits lead by vengeful Carrillo, who was framed for a crime he didn't commit by Ramone, plans a raid on the pueblo.
- Don Alejandro finds himself the sole heir of Roberto Segovia's fine hacienda. Then a man turns up, claiming to be Gregorio, Roberto's son who disappeared twenty years ago in an Indian campaign, who just put in his resignation as lieutenant in the Spanish colonial army; Victoria recognizes the ring she gave Gregorio, then her lover. Don Alejandro happily signs over the estate to Gregorio, who orders the garrison to help him improve the water supply. Don Diego mistrusts the water choice, so Zorro rides to investigate and stop damage to the pueblo's water supply, while sending Felipe to take soil samples...
- Deputy Governor Frasquez is a day early, while the alcalde isn't back yet, carrying the order to capture Zorro. He decides Mendoza is unfit as acting alcalde, and appoints don Alejandro, demanding Zorro's capture by Saturday or he'll be carried in chains himself and the De la Vega hacienda taxed to bankruptcy. Tailor Miguel Martinez finds his brother was falsely accused of cattle theft and shot, so he heads for L.A. to take terminal revenge on 'the alcalde', ignoring the interim; Victoria allows him poor man's rate, free 'left over' soup and tells Alejandro is in office. Diego and Felipe hope capturing the cattle thieves may allow Frasquez to save face and return to Monterrey. Bragging about a prize bull allows Zorro to deliver thief Sanchez to jail. Alejandro revives the water supply project Luis Ramon 'transformed' into a French bath. After Diego frustrates Miguel's shooting don Alejandro, Zorro deliberately gets himself arrested- actually Miguel was planted in his costume, the real Zorro frees him during transport to Monterrey, then makes sure Ramon doesn't rescind the irrigation.
- Juacinto Santana's fire-squad, according to Los Angeles's alcalde Ignacio de Soto for the murder on San Diego's alcalde Santana, his beloved father, is stopped by Zorro, who promises to find the real murderer. The same day arrived senora Alberta Sinestra; next deputy provost Jorge Ventura of the Santa Fé garrison turns up, showing a warrant to arrest her for her husband Julio's murder. Zorro believes her declaration of innocence and helps her escape, but when he refuses to run off with her, she promises he'll pay for choosing Victoria and heads for the tavern, where she stabs Ventura and attacks Victoria...
- Don Alejandro gets two surprises: the alcalde is riding a horse stolen from him, then his youth love Mercedes Henche, now the widow Villero, has returned to Los Angeles, telling she came to sell her family's rancho after her late husband Antonio, who was a brute, squandered all they had. The horse-thief is arrested, and Felipe overhears him and the alcalde scheming to rob Alejandro, who hears from Mercedes Antonio is alive but a criminal. It's time for Zorro to ride to the rescue...
- 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.
- Zorro chases and captures the LA bank robbery suspect Enrique Vargas. Wondering why the alcalde seemed uninterested, Diego decides to defend Enrique in the alcalde's court against prosecutor Mendoza, who is absolutely confident he will avoid the noose by escape- indeed a giant literally breaks the jail: Nestor Vargas comes for his kid brother 'Ricky', but they are persuaded to stay for a fair trial rather then remain fugitives for life, trusting on Nestor's iron bars-bending fists' persuading power to overrule any objection from Mendoza against Diego's intelligent plea based on hard facts. When the alcalde, exposed as the real gold thief, bases his hanging sentence purely on lancers firepower, Nestor and Zorro first fight, then team up against his (in)justice ...
- The alcalde pretends Zorro was the one who shot lieutenant Hidalgo. Risendo sets a trap, pretending to bring Victoria -actually a soldier playing her- to the inquisitor-general. The coward gets a Z-shaped taste of the whip in his face before his guardsmen can give chase; jumping horses, Zorro has to abandon Toronado, who is captured but proves indomitable. An attempt to make don Alejandro believe don Diego is after his estate fails, despite well-forged handwriting. Duelling Zorro during the stallion's daring rescue, Gilberto falls from a roof, apparently to his death. During a celebration at the alcalde's expense, his mother arrives and amends their evil plan for the de la Vegas's ruin ...
- Sergeant Mendoza was becoming very unpopular, being found inept as interim alcalde after Luis Ramon's death in the devil's fortress. The ambitious 'new broom' Ignacio de Soto secured his nomination by the Spanish king dueling the silver spoon nominee Caroga in Madrid. At arrival in Los Angeles, he finds himself welcomed by everyone, including a younger Madrid university study mate, Diego de la Vega. Ignacio accepts don Alejandro's invitation to the de la Vega hacienda, but shows his true colors there: he promises to break the pueblo to his will within three months, has concluded from Ramon's files that the entire elite was Zorro's accomplice and orders them locked in there till the 'bandit' is caught. At night, the fox escapes to give him his first lessons in fencing and humility...
- When Zorro deals with stage coach-robbers, Lopez admits he was released from jail by the alcalde just to prevent the arrival of his fat, extremely rude, bitchy cousin, famous seamstress Hermelinda. She now has to walk the last part with her fellow passengers, botanist Andres Bolanos and concert pianist Honorio Aragon, who is eagerly awaited in the humble pueblo. Aragon stays with Victoria but will play the De la Vega piano. At night, the hacienda is robbed and don Alejandro knocked down by a masked, Beethoven whistling art connoisseur, whose next victims are Victoria and the alcalde himself. Diego and Felipe set a musical trap which Zorro closes at Aragon's concert in the tavern...
- 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...
- Sergeant Mendoza inherits a hacienda from his late wealthy relative, and with it a higher status in society. Unfortunately, the place seems to be haunted. Zorro intends to prove otherwise.
- 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...
- The De la Vega dons finds on the beach a stranded, exhausted Japanese fisherman, Hiroshi. The only way to communicate is sign language, like they use with 'deaf' mute Felipe, the culture shock is mutual but both parties can learn a lot. Meawnhile Diego and Felipe experiment with magnesium powder. The alcalde supports the Spanish war effort by tracing the pueblo's caballeros' family trees, as land grants in the colonies are reserved for pure Spanish blood, and found a French great-great-grandmother of Don Alejandro. Hiroji is arrested on sight as a 'foreign heathen spy', and knows some English from a missionary's books left with his grandfather... .
- 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...
- 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.
- Because don Alejandro had a bad fall from his horse, don Diego goes in his place to meet the Spanish royal emissary in Santa Paula, representing the pueblo about the excessive taxes, but Victoria decides he needs help- from her, so she rides along on a borrowed de la Vega mount. In De Soto's absence, acting alcalde Mendoza enjoys a taste of his privileges, but Felipe overhears four robbers that's the ideal night to rob the town; the brave knave dresses to ride as 'acting Zorro', but Toronado isn't fooled. On their way back, Diego and Victoria have to take nightly shelter for a storm in an abandoned windmill...
- 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...
- In this series finale, Gilberto Risendo's mother Ynez nurses him back to health while repeating her story he was born as Alejandro's son before Diego but rejected because of a deformation. Risendo's first act after 'resurrection' is to tell alcalde and sergeant they'll be executed the next morning, by fire-squad together or far crueler if either tries to flee. Next he sets an obvious trap for Zorro, a 'truce' and meeting in devil's canyon, where he uses dynamite to bury the fox, only Toronado digs him out from the ruble by hoof. At the hacienda, Gilberto knocks down Alejandro, ties up Felipe and duels with the old man, inflicting wounds. When he's about to strike for the kill, Diego steps in unmasked; Gilberto realizes from arm wound and explosives smell he's Zorro, but is still defeated fencing. His mother Ynez tells her story, while Alejandro reposts she was just a hired, jealously infertile midwife, Gilberto draws a hidden pistol at his junior brother, but is killed before he can shoot, by a horse thief: the alcalde, who came to steal an Andalusian to flee...
- Senorita Escalante witnesses the thief Ortiz trying to rob the mission church's poor box, alerts the garrison, then locks them up realizing they'll see Zorro, but the alcalde does give chase. They land in Indian territory, where the alcalde trespasses on sacred burial ground, a capital offense under tribal customary law, and is easily captured by the brave Angry Eyes. Zorro pleads with the chief, Wise Eagle, and accepts to buy the oppressor's life by passing in his place the river of pain, which turns out a triple trial: running the gauntlet under clubs, a stick-fight against Angry Eyes and finally climbing the steep, dangerous Wall of Death. Alas the brave and the alcalde don't play by the rules, and then there's a traditional prize...
- A stagecoach robber kills don Sebastian Valverdes and wounds his wife, but the alcalde arrests Valverdes' protégé, farmer José Rivas, who passed by and tried to help, but benefits from the generous testament. Even Zorro fails to make the alcalde postpone the trial and presumed hanging next Friday, but Diego decides to make him believe, helped by Felipe, sergeant Mendoza, who would have to hang his friend José personally, and ever justice-devoted Victoria, that Friday has passed as he had fever for a week; meanwhile they spring José from jail and build 'safe' gallows, but de Soto isn't easily duped ...
- The alcalde's jail is full, but holds less real criminals -Zorro just delivered the two robbers of the garrison's pay- then poor farmers, who simply can't pay their taxes. Don Alejandro and Don Diego decide to pay the pittance 5 peso bail per man and stand guarantor, even convince other fine citizens to do the same, but Victoria's bailee frees the other robbers, she's taken hostage. Although Diego helps them steal the absent alcalde's safe, they take Victoria with them. Now Zorro must ride after them...
- 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...
- 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...
- The whole pueblo is preparing for Christmas, when señor Jones and his wife arrive in Los Angeles, looking for 'little Jaime' on account of a letter Mendoza wrote at age twelve. Alcalde De Soto has Jones arrested for stealing firewood in the wild. In jail, the sergeant believes Jones is Father Christmas, Diego convinces the friends to try to help him without Zorro, but when he realizes how badly they plan, accepts Felipe's discrete suggestion to keep the fox's equipment ready to help out when they go wrong...
- 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.
- When sergeant Mendoza brags about his alleged part in general Campos' Yucatan campaign, nasty senor Baquero sneers to know from experience there that's impossible; later he attacks Victoria as guest in her own inn, and is killed in a confused struggle with three villagers, neither of whom admits killing him, till the alcalde says there is a 3,000 pesos reward: each claims it, but they accept don Diego's suggestion to share the credit. When Baquero's even nastier friend Narcisco, himself under bounty, turns up and claims the reward or revenge, only Paco Garcia stands courageously by his acts, and is challenged to a duel by gunfight. Although Paco must borrow a gun from Narcisco and clearly stands no fair chance, the alcalde waits till Zorro turns up, hoping to cash in on three fat rewards...
- 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.
- The alcalde pretended to finance the irrigation plans without extra taxes by means of his new lottery, but Zorro proves it's tricked and enforces a true draw. The 5,000 Pesos cash prize is won by sergeant Jaime Mendoza, who takes his back-leave and wants to attract and impress a potential wife, so he decides to buy a farm and convert it into a grand mansion. Alcalde Ignacio de Soto gets the job of architect and contractor...
- Victoria is accused of murdering a guest at her tavern.
- Alcalde de Soto hoped to show off to captain Dominguez, the territorial governor's inspector, but the sales tax he extorted from the farmers even before harvest is confiscated by Zorro, so the plan to recruit additional officers for the Los Angeles garrison, locally, goes trough. Being against, the alcalde decides to 'help' Mendoza's bid, inciting him to do it completely wrong. Don Alejandro bets Diego can make bumpkin Jaime succeed by accelerated 'breading' into an officer and a gentleman, for the abolition of the sales tax, in case of failure Diego must join himself. Meanwhile the alcalde orders to find Zorro by searching every imaginable hiding place for Toronado...
- When protestant Daniel Nielson, fleeing religious persecution with his wife Esther and son Aaron, is the first-ever client of alcalde Ramon's land office in years actually to claim a piece of Los Angeles, he accepts, despite Diego and Victoria's warning it's a barren wilderness, 40 acres in the rocky Mesa de las Piedras. Helped by the De la Vegas, they get a self-sufficient farm going thanks to nitrates fertilizer. When don Alejandro has another malaria attack in Dr. Hernandez' absence, Esther helps him. Diego sends Felipe for Zorro's costume, seeing the superstitious villagers believe the industrious Nielsens practice witchcraft and put them in stocks to be lynched by stoning; the alcalde would be all too happy to get their now valuable land back...
- 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...
- While reading Cervante's Don Quixote, don Alejandro hurts his head against the fireplace, stumbles into Zorro's cave and wakes up thinking he's Zorro, so he rides in costume on Toronado to the pueblo, just in time to confront the Esteban brothers -wanted murderers the alcalde hoped to let get drunk before arresting them- and overpowers both by sheer luck, only to be easily arrested and unmasked by the alcalde. Although everyone often saw don Alejandro and Zorro together, the alcalde orders his arrest -ranting as a cross between Don Quixite and Zorro which drives everyone mad- and hanging. Obviously the infuriated real Zorro rides to the rescue...
- Royal emissary Gilberto Risendo first seizes the mission church properties, then lays the seed for a popular outcry he happily responds to: instead confiscate the haciendas of wealthy caballeros who enjoy legal tax exemptions, such as on account of beef supply to the garrison. The next day, Risendo's guardsmen literally occupy the de la Vega hacienda where he and lieutenant Hidalgo take up residence, abusing Felipe as their domestic, and has their bank accounts confiscated. A night, Zorro deals them a fencing lesson, but the alcalde and sergeant Mendoza, who have to capture Zorro or be executed two days later, shoot at Zorro- and accidentally kill Hidalgo. Risendo blames Zorro, vacates the hacienda and reverts to seizing church property...
- In 1788, Alejandro's wife Elena gave birth in Madrid to two boys, Diego and one who was taken away by nurse Inez. Years later, royal emissary Don Gilberto Resendo chooses a ruthless way to assert absolute authority beyond the call of collecting a 10,000 pesos special tax for the Spanish war effort against France: the alcalde is sentenced to death merely for 'incompetence' because the emissary's royal guards easily overpower the logically surprised lancers garrison; Diego is arrested for reporting a friend from the front contradicts in a letter the emissary's war optimism. Gilberto is surprised to learn don Alejandro is a de la Vega, a friend of the royal family, and as a courtesy releases Diego. So Zorro can prepare to intervene at de Soto's execution, for terrorizing effect by quartering between horse-carts, which sergeant Mendoza bravely refuses to carry trough -his own death sentence- under expert invisible sniper cover from Felipe's rifle, and ride off after a threat to return unless Risendo leaves quickly after collecting his tax. Gilberto corresponds with his mother in Madrid...
- 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...
- A theater troupe arrives in town, but Zorro suspects that the real reason why they're there is the Magistrate's priceless jeweled sword of Charlemagne.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- The alcalde is furious to find someone stole his blackberries, making villagers take off their shoes to check a juice trace and even has the shoes confiscated till the thief is delivered. When Zorro intervenes, sergeant Mendoza is ordered to follow him, but instead gets knocked down by a blow on the head from Jorge Santiago's bandido gang, which uses his sudden amnesia to make Jaime believe he is their fictitious leader 'Malo Martinez' so he will join their raid on the garrison arsenal but first Malo robs Victoria's tavern. Diego reads up on amnesia, then Zorro rides to revert the effects of the blow...
- Just when don Diego has broken his leg stopping a bull with a broomstick, fine horses are stolen from both the de la Vega hacienda and the garrison. To everyone's surprise, they are found in the corral of reputedly honest farmer Jose Macias, so the people raise the alcalde's exorbitant bail of 2,000 pesos. Alas the next day the horses and the whole Macias family are gone. Seeing Victoria ride fool-heartedly fearing the alcalde would shoot Jose on sight, Zorro rides despite his injury, just in time to intervene after she found Jose bringing the horses to bandits and trying to arrest them on her own...
- 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.
- Victoria neglects her clients orders, all her worries go to Sergio, a fever-struck boy at the mission who may die as the kid keeps almost no nourishment in. Don Diego learns his greatest wish is to be taken on a ride by his ultimate hero Zorro. The alcalde was listening eagerly and probably will set a trap as Felipe points out, but Diego resolves to give Sergio his ride to the sacred cave to diagnose and treat his disease, hoping Dr. Orfila's toxicology guide is the key. Pretending the boy is fatally contagious clears the way out of the trap, and the remedy and Felipe's nursing do their job. Mendoza was threatened with the stocks unless he found the boy, but padre Benitez and Victoria are caught sneaking him in. When the alcalde swings the whip to force Sergio to betray Zorro's hiding, the fox appears...
- After reuniting with his son, Big Jim Jarrett plans on leaving his pirate life behind and settling down in Los Angeles. However, the alcalde still has his mind on the treasure that Jarrett claims to know about, and he comes up with a plot to force Jarrett into giving up the treasure's location.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Ramon's racist guards harass and arrest a free black man named Felipe on trumped-up charges. Don Diego tries to help by suggesting a boxing match between Felipe and whomever Ramon picks. If Felipe wins, he gets his freedom back.
- Pablo Zaragosa's small army of bandidos rides into Los Angeles, plunders and chases the alcalde's lancers into the garrison barracks with heavy losses, and lays siege, even cuts off the aqueduct, demanding every peso in the pueblo. Don Diego, Felipe and their friends are trapped as they were inside, cavalry veteran don Alejandro tries despite the alcalde's disdain to train villagers into an emergency militia...
- Traveling hypnotist Dr. Lorenzo Lozano's show has little success in Los Angeles, except by accident on Don Diego - Lozano orders him to rob for him at night 'cunning like a fox'. Still mesmerized, he does so in Zorro outfit, openly, and is very rude, even to Felipe. The alcalde arrests Lozana as a fraud, who only now realizes Diego must be Zorro. Felipe sets a trap to knock out 'wicked Zorro' in the secret cave...
- Don Alejandro's female pen pal comes to Los Angeles and wedding bells are in the air, much to Diego's chagrin.
- The pirate Big Jim Jarrett and his crew come to Los Angeles to look for hidden treasure, but a young boy is determined to foil them. The alcalde also takes an interest in this treasure, and he tries to coax the location out of Jarrett.
- Sergeant Mendoza has a nightmare about role reversals, when the alcalde runs the tavern while Victoria is a dragon-tempered alcalde who orders tax money wasted on pink laced curtains. The next day the alcalde introduces a horse-parking fee and coupons as 'payment' for garrison provisions, claiming territorial red tape in Monterrey drained the pueblo's coffers, and refuses to use the 6,000 pesos-reward for Zorro, but is unexpectedly taken on his word when declaring to be ready to stand in an election - Victoria stands against him; Don Alejandro enthusiastically runs her campaign. De Soto trusts for his reelection on an attempt to bribe Don Diego's (only) newspaper and 500 fake votes he orders Mendoza to make. Of course both attempts fail, but there's a 15th century royal Spanish law even Zorro can't make go away...
- 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...
- Once the Three Musketeers are assembled, Diego helps them form a plan to regain their ancestors' castle. Later, Zorro helps them execute the plan and establish themselves as the protectors of their town.
- Diego's cousin is visiting the hacienda with his fiancee. However, when it becomes apparent that she plans to leave him due to her infatuation with Zorro, he plans to challenge Zorro to a duel.
- A family is traveling to the Oregon territory to make a new life, but they are pursued by a man who the father crossed when he fought him for his pet wolf. The man, claiming to be a prison guard, seeks the alcalde's help in tracking down the family, while Zorro must intervene.
- Judge Bernardo de la Paz is threatened because he is about to condemn violent criminal Vincente Torres's brother to death, so he sends his teenage son Carlos de la Paz for safekeeping to the De la Vega hacienda, where Felipe finds his 'playmate' is a reckless rascal. Diego was testing a glue for false beards for a boys Easter play, so the two adolescents test it. The brat ruins a vase and runs to the pueblo, disguised as a strange 'man', riding one of the hacienda's best horses and wearing don Alejandro's ceremonial sword, just when "the governor's son" enlists the naive alcalde's help to collect -actually kidnap- the kid. Zorro and Felipe find Carlos at Victoria's tavern, challenging a criminal gang, which they discretely help him put out of order, only to be openly attacked when daddy arrives...
- Toronado is lost, limping in the desert, to Diego's despair. A small boy finds and 'adopts' the normally indomitable stallion.
- The wanted independence fighter Joaquin Correna's revolutionary gang attacks a munition convoy guarded by Mendoza's lancers detail and blows it up. The next day the Rodriguez circus arrives in the pueblo. Their trampoline artist can't perform because of a suspicious pain in his side. However all eyes are on the gorgeous female magician Zephira. Diego recognizes her as his first love, who stood him up at the altar during his days at Madrid university, now they finally learn how her brother's participation in a rebellion and his father's request to return to California prevented their marriage...
- When Victoria finds a box with Dr. Henry Wayne's potions, and a taste of Strength seems to work on all-devouring Mendoza who thus wins a week free food, she plans to use a potion in a Montilla wine to assure herself of Zorro's Eternal Love, but the alcalde had set a trap and ends up drinking it unwittingly, leading to completely romantic courting willing Victoria. Zorro and Felipe find the potions are based solely on the power of suggestion, so Zorro sets up such as mental trap to right the suggested wrong...
- [This double-length episode is often aired in two parts] [PART 1] Now the alcalde is away for three months, Diego makes a journey to Beaumartin, near Bordeaux (France) and tells Felipe there's no need to pack his Zorro costume but finds it in his luggage anyway. Diego hoped for a quiet country vacation, but lands immediately in an inn brawl, then in the feud between vicomte (viscount) Jussac, the aristocratic royalist garrison commander who behaves rather too much like a certain Californian alcalde, and Porthos, great-great-grandson of one of the original Three Musketeers (Aramis was a clergyman, so childless) who were granted the castle by Louis XIII, which was seized during the French Revolution, Jussac stole the signet ring which serves as property title. Actually Porthos is a drunk, so his valet Picotin has a hard job minding the hot-head, who gets them all arrested at once. After his turn of torturous interrogation, Diego is released and nursed by Amélie, countess of Pérignon. Zorro decides to free Porthos and Picotin at night, as 'Le renard' (French for 'the Fox', i.e. Zorro). Then arrive the other musketeer heirs, convened by Picotin to reclaim the castle: gallant Athos and ... [PART 2] D'Artagnan's heir is there too, only he was careful enough to send a declining letter to stake the place first. Diego joins the 'three musketeers', Picotin has uniforms ready for each. Jussac-supporters overrun he musketeers, but 'le renard' is ready to throw them out. Diego tricks the countess, and trough her the viscount to ride the wrong way, then has the fox brought in so they can overtake the remaining guards and look for the ring of Beaumartin. Viscount and countess are chased in disgrace. Diego is welcomed home by Felipe and Victoria.
- Los Angeles' young new school teacher Annie is a hit with the children. Then three masked bank-robbers ride in town, grab schoolgirl Juanita and demand good escape horses. Annie shoots one, the alcalde demands she uses her sharpshooting skills on Zorro, who is pursuing the two surviving kidnappers. As US citizen she wouldn't do it for the Spanish crown, but the fat reward tempts her...
- 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...
- Royal Emissary Don Jose Alfonso Escanto has the alcalde's enthusiastic support for his mission to solve the pueblo's 'Indian problem': Shonay who came to trade is thrown in jailed just for his native race, to the barely controlled fury of Victoria and the De la Vegas, who still take him in their hacienda when he breaks his leg falling from his startled horse. Diego has a plan to make Shonay's warning come true that one day don Jose may experience the pain he inflicts on the Indian people by administering the emissary a skin-reddening 'medicine' while the bigot enacts cruel racist decrees. Meanwhile Zorro has another way to crack the alcalde's tall pride...
- While studying in Spain, Don Antonio de la Cruz (Patrick James) is asked to return to his native California by his ailing father. Upon his arrival, he discovers the Alcalde is ruling the province as a tyrant and his soldiers murder anyone who dares to challenge his authority. The people's only hope is the legendary hero, Zorro aka Don Diego de la Vega, whom Don Antonio finds mortally wounded after rescuing innocent men from the Alcalde's firing squad. Zorro/Don Diego urges Don Antonio to assume his secret identity and rally the Californians to fight the iron-fisted rule of the government. Don Antonio is also bethrothed to the wealthy señorita, Doña Maria Costanza Arellaga (Patrice Martinez), in which they do not get along but their romance is hinted when Don Antonio assumes the role of Zorro.