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Kung Fu

7.7(238)
First Aired:October 14, 1972
Seasons:3 seasons
Episodes:62
Status:Ended

The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

Cast

David Carradine

David Carradine

Kwai Chang Caine

Keye Luke

Keye Luke

Master Po

Philip Ahn

Philip Ahn

Master Kan

Radames Pera

Radames Pera

Young Caine

Seasons

King of the Mountain

E1King of the Mountain

48m8.0

Oct 14, 1972

Caine finds a young boy at a burned out cabin and tries to help him find his uncle. Along the way, bounty hunters find him.

Dark Angel

E2Dark Angel

51m8.0

Nov 11, 1972

Caine travels to Lordsville looking for his grandfather. On his way he helps a man attacked by indians and the man gives him a map to a goldmine. Caine gives the map to an old preacher who helped him.

Blood Brother

E3Blood Brother

50m8.0

Jan 18, 1973

While passing through the Arizona territory town of Kilgore, Caine learns of a Shaolin friend who lived there, and won't leave till he breaks the community's conspiracy surrounding his disappearance.

An Eye For An Eye

E4An Eye For An Eye

50m7.0

Jan 25, 1973

A family seeks vengeance-not justice-against the soldier who raped their daughter. Setting in motion a cycle of violence that Caine may be powerless to stop.

The Tide

E5The Tide

49m7.0

Feb 1, 1973

A man with a price on his head can spark a lot of ambitions. A woman wants to capture Caine so she can use the $10,000 to free her imprisoned father, and a killer hiding behind a badge simply wants to get rich.

The Soul Is The Warrior

E6The Soul Is The Warrior

49m

Feb 8, 1973

Caine's quest to meet his half-brother Danny leads him to a ranch where his sibling once worked, and plunges the priest into a confrontation where he proves his mettle by walking trough a pit of rattlesnakes.

Nine Lives

E7Nine Lives

50m

Feb 15, 1973

After the death of a mining camp's feline mascot, Caine and a miner embark on a trek to find a new cat -- a journey that ultimately has the pair trapped at the bottom of a rapidly filling well.

Sun And Cloud Shadow

E8Sun And Cloud Shadow

50m

Feb 22, 1973

Caine brokers a settlement between a landowner and Chinese miners, but the landowner adds an unacceptable condition to the deal. Meanwhile, a karate master intends to capture Caine.

The Praying Mantis Kills

E9The Praying Mantis Kills

50m

Mar 15, 1973

A frightened boy, defending a jail against the bandits who killed his sheriff father, inspires courage in an adult coward. At the moment of truth, Caine teaches them both to temper justice with mercy.

Alethea

E10Alethea

48m

Mar 22, 1973

Caine befriends a young girl, whose mistaken eyewitness testimony leads to the priest being tried for murder... and sentenced to death by hanging.

Chains

E11Chains

49m

Mar 29, 1973

Shackled to a brute of a man thirsting for his enemies' blood, Caine probes the cause of his hatred and leaves him transformed in the wilderness.

Superstition

E12Superstition

51m

Apr 5, 1973

Walls imprison the men unjustly sentenced to work as miners at a brutal labour camp. Yet an even greater barrier holds them captive; fear of the camp's ancient Indian curse. But Caine knows no such fear.

The Stone

E13The Stone

49m

Apr 12, 1973

Caine encounters Isaac Montola, a freed slave from Brazil skilled in a fighting style he has never seen. When Caine intervenes in a fight to save Isaac's life, a precious stone is lost, setting off a chain of events involving a widow and her children, and the piano-playing groom-to-be,

The Third Man

E14The Third Man

50m

Apr 26, 1973

A gambler on a hot streak entrusts his winnings to Caine. But the money is stolen, the gambler is killed, and Caine seeks answers to the mysteries surrounding both events.

The Ancient Warrior

E15The Ancient Warrior

51m

May 3, 1973

Ancient Warrior, an aged Indian accompanied by Caine, seeks burial in his sacred, ancestral land. But the burial site is located dead center in a violent, Indian-hating town called Purgatory.

The Well

E1The Well

Sep 27, 1973

After drinking bad water during a drought, Caine recovers at the farm of an ex-slave who has a working well, but one who is so angry he is not willing to share with his thirsty neighbors.

The Assassin

E2The Assassin

Oct 4, 1973

Hatfields and McCoys, with an Asian spin on things. Two familes with a longtime fued keep two potential lovers apart. One of the families has hired a ninja assassin, and Caine witnesses his actions. Caine is accused of assisting the ninja, and heals a man dying from a poisoned shuriken strike.

The Chalice

E3The Chalice

Oct 11, 1973

Caught between a Gatling Gun and a fort full of murderous killers, Caine must rescue a stolen chalice in order to make restitution for a dead Franciscan priest.

The Brujo

E4The Brujo

Oct 25, 1973

While wandering in Mexico, Caine comes across an old woman and a young boy. The woman is trapped under a cart and asks Caine to take care of the boy. He takes him to a small Mexican village which believes it is under the spell of a warlock.

The Squaw Man

E5The Squaw Man

Nov 1, 1973

Caine helps a farmer who is married to an Indian woman. The townpeople have no respect for the farmer until he kills an outlaw's son and then they treat him as a hero.

The Spirit Helper

E6The Spirit Helper

Nov 8, 1973

Caine helps a young Indian man who saw his father killed and wants to kill the men who did it and rescue his mother from them.

The Tong

E7The Tong

Nov 15, 1973

Caine help a young Chinese orphan boy gain his freedom from a brutal master. The master goes to the Tong for help against Caine.

The Soldier

E8The Soldier

Nov 29, 1973

Caine is accused of taking part in a bandit ambush, and is taken prisoner by the U.S. Calvary. He meets a soldier that is a conscientious objector that helps him clear his name.

The Salamander

E9The Salamander

Dec 6, 1973

Caine comes to a bankrupt mining town and meets a mentally handicapped boy, who is the target of a claim jumper.

The Hoots

E10The Hoots

Dec 13, 1973

Caine meets a group of Hutterite settlers, who must reconsider their pacifist background when attacked by bigoted cattlemen, and teaches them how to defend themselves without compromising their principles.

The Elixir

E11The Elixir

Dec 20, 1973

Caine rescues the hawkers of the cure-all Theodora's Elixir from a hostile crowd, earning the come-hither gratitude of Theodora and the resentment of her jealous male partner.

The Gunman

E12The Gunman

Jan 3, 1974

A gunslinger defends Caine and the widow who owns the ranch where Caine is working. Meanwhile, Caine is still pursued by a detachment of volunteers and an overzealous bounty hunter.

Empty Pages Of A Dead Book

E13Empty Pages Of A Dead Book

Jan 10, 1974

The son of a deceased Texas Ranger tries to honor his memory by going after criminals his father kept a journal on. He finds more trouble than he expected and Caine must defend him.

A Dream Within A Dream

E14A Dream Within A Dream

Jan 17, 1974

Caine, while walking through a dense fog, happens upon a man who is hanging and he himself is then shot. When he awakens, he finds himself in the company of a sculptor played by John Drew Barrymore (Drew's father). Caine is later accused of the murder of the hanging man and Barrymore's character comes to his defense. This is a really good episode and on the DVD David Carradine has an interesting commentary that accompanies this particular episode.

The Way Of Violence Has No Mind

E15The Way Of Violence Has No Mind

8.0

Jan 24, 1974

Caine confronts a gang of Chinese immigrants that have taken to violence.

In Uncertain Bondage

E16In Uncertain Bondage

Feb 7, 1974

Caine recalls lessons learned as a youth when he and a Southern belle are trapped in a deep pit, held there by kidnappers.

Night Of The Owls, Day Of The Doves

E17Night Of The Owls, Day Of The Doves

Feb 14, 1974

Caine must defend prostitutes that want to start a new life with land bequeathed to them, from cattlemen that want to seize it for themselves.

Crossties

E18Crossties

Feb 21, 1974

Caine is caught in the middle of a land-rights fight between farmers and railroad agents. He tries to convince the farmers to accept an offer of amnesty, and to keep the agents from using the offer as a fatal trap for the farmers.

The Passion Of Chen Yi

E19The Passion Of Chen Yi

Feb 28, 1974

Caine tries to visit an unjustly jailed Shaolin student, but keeps being turned away. He then commits a crime so he can be put in jail with him, hoping to clear up an old misunderstanding and help free the student.

Arrogant Dragon

E20Arrogant Dragon

60m

Mar 14, 1974

Wu Chang has angered the Tong Sect, and is ordered to commit suicide or be executed by them. Caine tries to help him fake his death and escape from the Tongs.

The Nature Of Evil

E21The Nature Of Evil

Mar 21, 1974

Caine and Serenity Johnson, the blind preacher last seen in Dark Angel, look for a killer that is stalking Serenity's town of Nineveh.

The Cenotaph (1)

E22The Cenotaph (1)

Apr 4, 1974

Caine meets Logan McBurney, a Scotsman who has hijacked a gold-transporting stagecoach named Old Ironsides, to haul an enormous box that he claims is his dead Sioux wife's coffin. Along the way to the burial ground, which is on Sioux land, Caine remembers times in the monastery, unaware that several robbers are following closely, hoping to take Old Ironsides for themselves.

The Cenotaph (2)

E23The Cenotaph (2)

60m

Apr 11, 1974

Caine and Logan arrive at the Sioux burial ground, to bury what Caine believes is Logan's wife in a huge crate, and are confronted by angry Sioux warriors who feel they are trespassing. They must also deal with two robbers as well as the US Calvary. Caine recalls his own love story, that like Logan's wife, ended tragically.

Blood of the Dragon (1)

E1Blood of the Dragon (1)

Sep 14, 1974

Caine goes to meet with his grandfather again, only to find he has been murdered. He searches for the murderer, unaware that a group of assassins from China are after him.

Blood of the Dragon (2)

E2Blood of the Dragon (2)

Sep 14, 1974

Caine meets a woman that was his grandfather's lover, and is very hostile to his inquiries, while a group of Chinese assassins (believed to be able to summon forth demon fighters) closes in on him.

A Small Beheading

E3A Small Beheading

Sep 21, 1974

Caine is offered a chance to return to China, after a sea captain delivers a pardon from the Emperor. The pardon, however, has one condition: Caine must lose a finger.

This Valley of Terror

E4This Valley of Terror

Sep 28, 1974

Caine helps a young woman who has visions of future events. They always come true and this terrifies her.

The Predators

E5The Predators

Oct 5, 1974

Caine is accused of murder and must seek out a witness who is a member of a gang of Indian scalphunters, who doesn't want to help him. He must also deal with an Apache warrior who wants to kill the witness for his crimes against the Apache.

My Brother, My Executioner

E6My Brother, My Executioner

Oct 12, 1974

Caine thinks he has found his brother, but he is really an imposter who is being pursued by a young gunfighter.

Cry Of The Night Beast

E7Cry Of The Night Beast

Oct 19, 1974

Caine hears the cry of a child begging to be saved, but there is no child to be found. Only a very young buffalo calf and his mother. Caine protects him from a hunter who is determined to kill him for the hide.

The Devil's Champion

E8The Devil's Champion

Nov 1, 1974

We return to Caine's past in China. Caine witnesses a man defeat six others in the village. The man instructs Caine to deliver a challenge. He demands a fight to the death with Master Kan or he will kill a villager every day until he gets it.

The Garments Of Rage

E9The Garments Of Rage

Nov 8, 1974

Caine goes to work for a railroad which is being sabotaged, and meets a Shaolin priest he knew before.

Besieged (1): Death On Cold Mountain

E10Besieged (1): Death On Cold Mountain

Nov 15, 1974

A reclusive hermit, Tamo, arrives at the Honan monastery to inform them that the Fukien monastery was attacked and destroyed by a warlord with his cannon, and that he has survivors seeking refuge there. One of the survivors is a woman who wants to become a Shaolin monk. She later reveals the warlord wanted her to be his wife, and she fled. Now the warlord is preparing to attack the monastery and having his cannon brought there.

Besieged (2): Cannon At The Gates

E11Besieged (2): Cannon At The Gates

Nov 22, 1974

Caine and the others try to defend the monastery, while the cannon the Warlord SIng will attack them with is still enroute. In the meantime, he must contend with the fact that a woman who wants to become a Shaolin monk and rejected Sing's hand in marriage, has fallen in love with him.

The Demon God

E12The Demon God

Dec 13, 1974

After being stung by a scorpion, Caine remembers a time in China, where a member of the royal family poisoned him in order to discover what was on the journey to death, during which time Caine had visions of the American west.

The Vanishing Image

E13The Vanishing Image

Dec 20, 1974

Caine seeks out a photographer who took a picture of his brother, Danny, in hopes that he will be able to help find him. He also encounters and befriends an Indian that attacks him and the photographer, and later wants to kill the photographer for taking a picture of him, for which he believes has stolen his soul.

A Lamb To The Slaughter

E14A Lamb To The Slaughter

Jan 11, 1975

Caine meets the son of a man who died defending his father from muggers, and wants to repay him for his debt of honor by working for him. However, the man doesn't want work as payment but to learn how to fight, against a gang of bandits terrorizing the village he lives in.

The Forbidden Kingdom

E15The Forbidden Kingdom

Jan 18, 1975

This episode shows how Caine fled China, being pursued by a relentless Lieutenant in the Emperor's army, and how he faces possible betrayal by a woman who pledges to help him; but has secretly made an offer to turn him over to the Lieutenanf, in exchange for her brother's release from prison.

One Step To Darkness

E16One Step To Darkness

Jan 25, 1975

Caine tries helping the depressed wife of an Army sergeant, with a drug addiction, and winds up fighting an inner demon of his own creation.

Battle Hymn

E17Battle Hymn

Feb 8, 1975

Caine meets two traveling musicians, who are looking for a supposedly magical cave, all unaware that there are silver hunters looking to strike it rich with the cave.

Barbary House

E18Barbary House

Feb 15, 1975

Caine learns that Danny might be working at a gambling hall that features bare-knuckle boxing, and winds up protecting Danny's son, after Danny angers the hall's owner by hitting him and leaving his job, before Caine's arrival.

Flight To Orion

E19Flight To Orion

Feb 22, 1975

Caine goes searching for Danny, with Danny's son and a woman Danny Jr. has found out is his mother, with riders pursuing them, and is forced into an Indian death match along the way.

The Brothers Caine

E20The Brothers Caine

Mar 1, 1975

Caine finds where his brother is hiding, but is unaware that Danny has been told there is a Chinese bounty hunter who wants to kill him.

Full Circle

E21Full Circle

Mar 8, 1975

The Caine family's dysfunctional relationships get resolved. Kwai Chang and Danny are questing to find General Cantrell who has custody of Zeke Caine. After typical adversities everyone is reunited and Kwai Chang reveals where his future lies.

The Thief Of Chendo

E22The Thief Of Chendo

Mar 29, 1975

Young Caine and Master Po imagine what it will be like when Caine leaves the temple, and in their dreams Caine is sent to deliver a ring to a Grand Duke by Master Po. Upon arriving at the palace, he is informed that the Duke is dead, but an old man from the Duke's palace delivers him a message that he is still alive. He is being imprisoned by his own cousin, who has taken control of the palace. Caine also meets a thief who falls in love with the Duke's daughter, who is to be married off, and they work together to free both the Duke and his daughter.

Ambush

E23Ambush

Apr 4, 1975

Serenity Johnson, the blind preacher last seen in The Nature Of Evil, asks Caine to help escort him with a shipment to San Fransisco. What neither one of them knows is that stolen silver bars are hidden in the shipment, and people involved in the robbery are after them.

The Last Raid

E24The Last Raid

Apr 26, 1975

Caine is visiting the Brown family when their son and his friend are taken hostage by a Confederate raider who believes the war isn't over ... and that he may kidnap children in the name of honor.

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The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

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