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The Best Episodes of Zorro Season 1

Every episode of Zorro Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Zorro Season 1!

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Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Zorro Season 1 Episode 1 - Presenting Señor Zorro
    8.2/10(249 votes)

    #1 - Presenting Señor Zorro

    S1:E1

    The story of the masked rider in Old California opens as Don Diego de la Vega is returning to California from Spain, where he has been studying for several years.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writers:Norman Foster, Bob Wehling

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  2. Zorro Season 1 Episode 2 - Zorro's Secret Passage
    7.9/10(195 votes)

    #2 - Zorro's Secret Passage

    S1:E2

    It is a calm morning in Spanish California, and Sergeant Dimetrio Lopez Garcia is putting up posters, with another soldier, which are asking for reward money for Don Ignacio Torres and the now famous Zorro.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Antony Ellis

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  3. Zorro Season 1 Episode 3 - Zorro Rides to the Mission
    7.6/10(175 votes)

    #3 - Zorro Rides to the Mission

    S1:E3

    Finding that Don Torres is in hiding at the Mission, Monastario forces the local Indians into hard labor until the Padre agrees to surrender the fugitive.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writers:Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Jackson Gillis

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  4. Zorro Season 1 Episode 4 - The Ghost of the Mission
    7.8/10(166 votes)

    #4 - The Ghost of the Mission

    S1:E4

    After failing in his attempt to sneak food to the fugitive in the Mission where Captain Monastario has laid siege, Zorro tries to scare the soldiers away by spreading a rumor about the mad monk who supposedly haunts the place.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Norman Foster

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  5. Zorro Season 1 Episode 5 - Zorro's Romance
    7.6/10(149 votes)

    #5 - Zorro's Romance

    S1:E5

    In order to help the escaped fugitive Torres elude Captain Monastario's surveillance of his home, Don Diego decides that he must propose marriage to Torres' daughter.

    Director:Lewis R. Foster
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  6. Zorro Season 1 Episode 6 - Zorro Saves a Friend
    7.5/10(146 votes)

    #6 - Zorro Saves a Friend

    S1:E6

    When Captain Monastario arrests the fugitive Torres' wife and daughter, hoping to catch Zorro trying to rescue them, he instead catches Don Diego's chief vacquero Benito, who is in love with the daughter Elena.

    Director:Lewis R. Foster
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  7. Zorro Season 1 Episode 7 - Monastario Sets a Trap
    7.7/10(146 votes)

    #7 - Monastario Sets a Trap

    S1:E7

    Learning that a group of disgruntled landowners plan to seize the cuartel and free the political prisoners, Captain Monastario sets a trap to capture them, including Zorro's father Don Alejandro.

    Director:Lewis R. Foster
    Writers:Joel Kane, Lowell S. Hawley

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  8. Zorro Season 1 Episode 8 - Zorro's Ride Into Terror
    7.8/10(139 votes)

    #8 - Zorro's Ride Into Terror

    S1:E8

    After Zorro hides his wounded father in the secret cave, as Don Diego he must divert Captain Monastario and his soldiers who are searching for the old man.

    Director:Lewis R. Foster
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  9. Zorro Season 1 Episode 9 - A Fair Trial
    7.6/10(138 votes)

    #9 - A Fair Trial

    S1:E9

    With his father Don Alejandro now charged with treason along with Don Torres, Zorro must see that the judge sent by the governor arrives to assure a fair trial.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writers:Jackson Gillis, Bob Wehling

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  10. Zorro Season 1 Episode 10 - Garcia's Secret Mission
    7.7/10(137 votes)

    #10 - Garcia's Secret Mission

    S1:E10

    Captain Monastario orders Sergeant Garcia to pretend to have been dishonorably discharged, so that the people of the village will take him into their confidence and reveal Zorro's whereabouts.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Antony Ellis

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  11. Zorro Season 1 Episode 11 - Double Trouble for Zorro
    8.1/10(132 votes)

    #11 - Double Trouble for Zorro

    S1:E11

    Captain Monastario's latest plan is to discredit Zorro by having a prisoner who killed a man in a sword fight pose as the masked avenger and rob the local landowners at a dinner party.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Norman Foster

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  12. Zorro Season 1 Episode 12 - Zorro, Luckiest Swordsman Alive
    8.3/10(143 votes)

    #12 - Zorro, Luckiest Swordsman Alive

    S1:E12

    Faking Martinez's death, Captain Monastario again tries to use him to impersonate and disgrace Zorro by robbing a church, leaving Zorro confused as to who could be the impostor this time.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Lowell S. Hawley

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  13. Zorro Season 1 Episode 13 - The Fall of Monastario
    8.4/10(150 votes)

    #13 - The Fall of Monastario

    S1:E13

    Captain Monastario finally realizes that Don Diego must be Zorro, and arrests him, but a Viceroy from the King of Spain who is visiting the pueblo turns out to be an old friend of Diego's, and this is just enough to allow Zorro to turn the tables and have Monastario discredited.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  14. Zorro Season 1 Episode 14 - Shadow of Doubt
    7.8/10(126 votes)

    #14 - Shadow of Doubt

    S1:E14

    No sooner does the honest new commandante arrive than he is assassinated by a mysterious stranger who frames an elderly beggar for the crime and appears to be part of a larger conspiracy.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Lowell S. Hawley

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  15. Zorro Season 1 Episode 15 - Garcia Stands Accused
    7.9/10(114 votes)

    #15 - Garcia Stands Accused

    S1:E15

    Sergeant Garcia receives a mysterious note from Zorro. The happy soldier reads that Zorro will give himself up. When he returns for his sword, it is gone, so he sadly returns to the cuartel without having captured his foe.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Lowell S. Hawley

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  16. Zorro Season 1 Episode 16 - Slaves of the Eagle
    7.9/10(117 votes)

    #16 - Slaves of the Eagle

    S1:E16

    The King's tax collector and his nephew are stopped by conspirators, while on their way to Los Angeles. The conspirators threaten the men unless they cooperate, then they seize Morales' official documents.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Lowell S. Hawley

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  17. Zorro Season 1 Episode 17 - Sweet Face of Danger
    7.9/10(113 votes)

    #17 - Sweet Face of Danger

    S1:E17

    A quiet day in the pueblo is abruptly changed when a stranger is killed by an arrow, apparently the victim of an Indian attack. Diego helps Sergeant Garcia inspect the body for clues and finds another mysterious eagle feather, this time on the fake Indian arrow. Other than that, there is no hint as to who the stranger was or why he was killed.

    Director:John Meredyth Lucas
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  18. Zorro Season 1 Episode 18 - Zorro Fights His Father
    7.9/10(108 votes)

    #18 - Zorro Fights His Father

    S1:E18

    A peaceful protest by a group of peons upset with taxes turns violent when one of the Eagle's men throws a rock through the magistrado's window. Galindo uses this as an excuse to order severe measures against the peasants, a move that upsets Don Alejandro. The other landowners want to set up vigilante posses to punish the peons, but Alejandro argues on the side of reason.

    Director:John Meredyth Lucas
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  19. Zorro Season 1 Episode 19 - Death Stacks the Deck
    8.1/10(118 votes)

    #19 - Death Stacks the Deck

    S1:E19

    Ramon Santil has just inherited his father's ranch and holdings, and some bad news. The magistrado tells him there's a high tax that must be paid at once or he will lose the land, and Ramon doesn't have the money to pay it. In desperation, he sells all of his cattle to Carlos Urista, a recent arrival in town whom Diego suspects as another of the Eagle's men.

    Director:John Meredyth Lucas
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  20. Zorro Season 1 Episode 20 - Agent of the Eagle
    8.1/10(108 votes)

    #20 - Agent of the Eagle

    S1:E20

    Don Alejandro tells Diego he's received a letter from a friend in the capital telling him that the new commandante, Capitan Juan Ortega, has the reputation of being an honest and fair man. When Ortega arrives, he doesn't act that way. He treats Sergeant Garcia with contempt and is openly arrogant toward the civilians. The reason for this is revealed when Ortega meets the magistrado and informs him that the real commandante has been ambushed and murdered, on orders of the Eagle.

    Director:Charles Barton
    Writer:N.B. Stone Jr.

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  21. Zorro Season 1 Episode 21 - Zorro Springs a Trap
    8.2/10(110 votes)

    #21 - Zorro Springs a Trap

    S1:E21

    The fake Ortega and the magistrado announce they have captured Zorro, and a cart holding a masked man is dragged into the town square. A public unmasking will be held at noon, and Diego fears that an innocent man will be charged with Zorro's "crimes". He also realizes it may all be a trap, so when he dons his costume and rides into the square to free the prisoner, he watches carefully for soldiers.

    Director:Charles Barton
    Writer:Lewis R. Foster

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  22. Zorro Season 1 Episode 22 - The Unmasking of Zorro
    8.4/10(125 votes)

    #22 - The Unmasking of Zorro

    S1:E22

    The plans of the fake commandante and the magistrado go awry when Ortega spots Diego talking to Rosarita Cortez, a childhood friend who has recently returned from the capital. Ortega fears she will recognize him from her journey, for it was during that trip that he murdered the real Ortega and assumed his identity. Bernardo overhears the two villains planning her death, and notifies Diego.

    Director:Charles Barton
    Writer:N.B. Stone Jr.

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  23. Zorro Season 1 Episode 23 - The Secret of the Sierra
    7.8/10(113 votes)

    #23 - The Secret of the Sierra

    S1:E23

    Another stranger with an eagle feather spells trouble for Zorro when Perico, a recent arrival, sees a gypsy girl trying to pay for a purchase with several gold nuggets. Diego and Alejandro realize that news of a gold discovery will cause a rush of "gold fever" and their peaceful way of life will be threatened, so they try to suppress the news.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Norman Foster

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  24. Zorro Season 1 Episode 24 - The New Commandante
    7.9/10(114 votes)

    #24 - The New Commandante

    S1:E24

    The magistrado's plans to aid the Eagle may suffer a setback when a new commandante arrives in the pueblo. Unlike the fake Ortega, Capitan Toledano is loyal to the King and beyond corruption, yet he must be eliminated if the Eagle's plot is to succeed. Toledano's jealousy over his pretty wife Raquel is the key to the magistrado's newest scheme.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Norman Foster

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  25. Zorro Season 1 Episode 25 - The Fox and the Coyote
    8.0/10(109 votes)

    #25 - The Fox and the Coyote

    S1:E25

    Magistrado Galindo has smuggled a supply of weapons into the pueblo, intending to use them when the Eagle orders the overthrow of the government, but he has been unable to get a supply of gunpowder. The army has a large stockpile at the cuartel, and the magistrado decides to steal it for his use

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Norman Foster

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Presenting Señor Zorro" is the best rated episode of "Zorro" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 249 votes. Directed by Norman Foster and written by Norman Foster, Bob Wehling, it aired on 10/10/1957. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Zorro's Secret Passage".