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Kung Fu
1972 - 1975 7.6 (220 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Action & Adventure Drama Western Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
ABC
Created By
Herman Miller
Ed Spielman
Jerry Thorpe

Kung Fu

Overview

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

Key Crew

Top Cast

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1972)

No overview available.

15 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: King of the Mountain
1972-10-14

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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 2: Dark Angel
1972-11-11

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 3: Blood Brother
1973-01-18

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 4: An Eye For An Eye
1973-01-25

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 5: The Tide
1973-02-01

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 6: The Soul Is The Warrior
1973-02-08

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 7: Nine Lives
1973-02-15

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 8: Sun And Cloud Shadow
1973-02-22

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 9: Chains
1973-03-15

Caine is imprisoned at an army outpost, and escapes... chained to his hulking, mountain-man cellmate, and are persued by a relentless sergent. Who is determined to collect the reward offered for Caine's capture.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 10: Alethea
1973-03-22

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 11: The Praying Mantis Kills
1973-03-29

Murderous thugs come looking for Caine after he identifies them as perpetrators of a bank robbery. A youth's ideas about how to be a man are challenged by Caine's quiet heroics.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 12: Superstition
1973-04-05

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 13: The Stone
1973-04-12

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,

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 14: The Third Man
1973-04-26

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 15: The Ancient Warrior
1973-05-03

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1973)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Well
1973-09-27

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.

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Episode 2: The Assassin
1973-10-04

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.

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Episode 3: The Chalice
1973-10-11

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.

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Episode 4: The Brujo
1973-10-25

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.

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Episode 5: The Squaw Man
1973-11-01

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.

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Episode 6: The Spirit Helper
1973-11-08

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.

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Episode 7: The Tong
1973-11-15

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

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Episode 8: The Soldier
1973-11-29

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.

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Episode 9: The Salamander
1973-12-06

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

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Episode 10: The Hoots
1973-12-13

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.

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Episode 11: The Elixir
1973-12-20

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.

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Episode 12: The Gunman
1974-01-03

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.

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Episode 13: Empty Pages Of A Dead Book
1974-01-10

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.

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Episode 14: A Dream Within A Dream
1974-01-17

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.

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Episode 15: The Way Of Violence Has No Mind
1974-01-24

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

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Episode 16: In Uncertain Bondage
1974-02-07

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

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Episode 17: Night Of The Owls, Day Of The Doves
1974-02-14

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.

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Episode 18: Crossties
1974-02-21

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.

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Episode 19: The Passion Of Chen Yi
1974-02-28

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.

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Episode 20: Arrogant Dragon
1974-03-14

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Nature Of Evil
1974-03-21

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

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Episode 22: The Cenotaph (1)
1974-04-04

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.

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Episode 23: The Cenotaph (2)
1974-04-11

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1974)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Blood of the Dragon (1)
1974-09-14

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.

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Episode 2: Blood of the Dragon (2)
1974-09-14

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.

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Episode 3: A Small Beheading
1974-09-21

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.

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Episode 4: This Valley of Terror
1974-09-28

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

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Episode 5: The Predators
1974-10-05

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.

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Episode 6: My Brother, My Executioner
1974-10-12

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

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Episode 7: Cry Of The Night Beast
1974-10-19

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.

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Episode 8: The Devil's Champion
1974-11-01

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.

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Episode 9: The Garments Of Rage
1974-11-08

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

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Episode 10: Besieged (1): Death On Cold Mountain
1974-11-15

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.

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Episode 11: Besieged (2): Cannon At The Gates
1974-11-22

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.

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Episode 12: The Demon God
1974-12-13

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.

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Episode 13: The Vanishing Image
1974-12-20

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.

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Episode 14: A Lamb To The Slaughter
1975-01-11

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.

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Episode 15: The Forbidden Kingdom
1975-01-18

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.

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Episode 16: One Step To Darkness
1975-01-25

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.

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Episode 17: Battle Hymn
1975-02-08

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.

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Episode 18: Barbary House
1975-02-15

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.

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Episode 19: Flight To Orion
1975-02-22

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.

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Episode 20: The Brothers Caine
1975-03-01

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.

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Episode 21: Full Circle
1975-03-08

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.

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Episode 22: The Thief Of Chendo
1975-03-29

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.

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Episode 23: Ambush
1975-04-04

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.

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Episode 24: The Last Raid
1975-04-26

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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