Disney produced 78 episodes and four specials of Zorro from 1957-1959, during a time when television was dominated by Westerns such as Bonanza, Have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Rifleman, Bat Masterson, and many more.
While Zorro is classified as a Western, rather than featuring a white gunslinger, gambler or cowboy, the titular protagonist is a masked, swashbucking, sword fighting, university educated, Spanish vigilante.
I watched reruns of Zorro when I was a kid, over 40 years ago. I just watched them again on Disney+ this weekend and I still love it.
Maybe Zorro influenced my preference for all black Nightingale garb in Skyrim?
~ J.L. Hilton
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