Kung Fu (1972)
Synopsis
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
First Air Date: 1972-10-14
Last Air Date: 1975-04-26
Number of Seasons: 3
Number of Episodes: 62
Created By: Herman Miller, Ed Spielman, Jerry Thorpe
Networks: ABC
Top Cast
- David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine
- Keye Luke as Master Po
- Philip Ahn as Master Kan
- Radames Pera as Young Caine
- Tad Horino as Cowled Head
- Victor Sen Yung as Old Mandarin
- James Hong as Chun Yen
- Tim McIntire as Daniel Caine
- Richard Loo as Master Sun
- Benson Fong as Li Yu
Seasons
Season 1 (1972)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: King of the Mountain
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.
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Ep. 2: Dark Angel
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.
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Ep. 3: Blood Brother
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.
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Ep. 4: An Eye For An Eye
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.
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Ep. 5: The Tide
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.
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Ep. 6: The Soul Is The Warrior
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.
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Ep. 7: Nine Lives
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.
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Ep. 8: Sun And Cloud Shadow
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.
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Ep. 9: The Praying Mantis Kills
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.
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Ep. 10: Alethea
Caine befriends a young girl, whose mistaken eyewitness testimony leads to the priest being tried for murder... and sentenced to death by hanging.
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Ep. 11: Chains
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.
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Ep. 12: Superstition
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.
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Ep. 13: The Stone
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,
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Ep. 14: The Third Man
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.
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Ep. 15: The Ancient Warrior
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.
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