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- In the 1860s Wild West, a ragged bunch of misfit settlers decides they cannot stand living in their current situation and they hire a grizzled cowboy to take them on a journey back East to their hometowns.
- A group of cute, young women in USSR are trained to be spies in USA, using their bodies to seduce. Elena passes and is sent to Moscow, where she meets a single, American man.
- There is a brand new class of screw-ups at the Police Academy (1984). They face danger and try not to let their stupidity get in the way as they fight crime, often without even knowing it.
- This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of the old west to somewhat anti-"gringo" Mexican revolutionaries.
- Billy Jackson is not having a good Christmas. He got a basketball and just can't make a jump shot. His Uncle David is coming to town to open a Valu-Mall, which will put his dad's store out of business. When he tells his little sister Sarah that there is no Santa, she makes a wish that it would be Christmas every day. Now he must relive it over and over again.
- A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago.
- A family man runs a zoo in his backyard and is the only one who knows that the animals he cares for can talk.
- Captain Tackleberry is set up for blackmail by the owner of a strip club after Tack shuts them down. Ledbetter orders Casey to help Luke lose weight.
- While on a stakeout at the beach, Casey becomes involved with an attractive TV star who is kidnapped. Annie fears she may have a curse, and visits a psychic for help.
- Hefilfinger organises a Cadet of the Year competition to increase the number of Academy enlistments, but Ledbetter does his best to keep Casey from winning. Due to budget cuts, Commissioner Hurst is named the new Commandant.
- The cadets are led to a couple of jewel thieves, after Commandant Hefilfinger finds a ruby in his fortune cookie.
- Casey is stalked by a woman obsessed with marrying him, just as romance is blossoming between Casey and Annie. After a knock to the head, Lester develops multiple-personality disorder.
- An over-the-hill boxer enrols in the Academy to toughen up. Casey must find out who has been stealing the cadets' personal belongings.
- Expecting a delivery of an exercise bicycle, the Commandant receives an Egyptian mummy instead. In an attempt to impress her strict father, Annie pretends to be a drill instructor.
- The arrival of a filmmaker filming a recruitment video gives Ledbetter the opportunity to record proof of Casey's shenanigans. The Tackleberrys care for an infant left at their door.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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...
- Don Alejandro's female pen pal comes to Los Angeles and wedding bells are in the air, much to Diego's chagrin.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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 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 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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]
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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...