Kung Fu

S01E01 King of the Mountain 1972-10-14

Kwai Chang Caine, the half-American Shaolin Monk, befriends a boy without housing, foils a bounty hunter and experiences the pain of love.

S01E02 Dark Angel 1972-11-11

Kwai Chang Caine helps to restore the faith of a preacher while he is searching for his grandfather to discover his United States heritage.

Caine looks for a good friend from his Chinese temple who is missing from town, and there are people determined to stop his search at any cost.

A woman (Lane Bradbury) impregnated in a rape endures more tragedy when she and her father try to take revenge on her soldier-attacker.

A pretty Asian woman saves Caine's life when he is badly wounded by a murdering sheriff, but conspires to use him as a pawn to possibly free her father from a Chinese prison.

Caine offers to walk through a pit of snakes to save the life of a sheriff (Pat Hingle) who was forced to kill the son of a rancher. A powerful rancher demands justice for the death of his son, requiring Caine to reveal the man's greatest fear.

Cats are scarce in the Old West, and Caine must replace one to appease the death of one killed by a gold seeking miner.

A powerful landowner attempts to drive off Chinese miners from their legally owned mountain of gold, but complications arise from his son's love for the girl Cloud Shadow.

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.

Seeing is believing. Or is it? A young girl's eyewitness testimony leads to a priest being tried for murder and sentenced to death by hanging.

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.

Caine is falsely arrested for stealing and is sent to a silver mine. After arriving, he teaches a fellow prisoner how to endure extreme heat, cold and how to survive in a serious cave-in.

It's Kung Fu vs. Brazil's fighting technique of Capoeira as a man learns from Caine that to fight injustice anywhere is to fight it everywhere.

Caine challenges a killer to be his own judge and his victim's widow to accept the verdict.

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

Kwai Chang Caine, stricken by poisoned water, lies near death in the home of a former slave who fearfully harbors a secret so precious that it might well save the entire community from disaster.

Caine uses the love in two men's hearts to thwart their hatred and break a chain of murder.

Caine promises a dying priest who stole a golden chalice, that he will recover it from 3 murdering bandits so his soul will be saved.

Caine, proving that faith is a two-edged sword of good and evil, breaks a witch's very real curse over a whole town.

Caine, in a reversal of roles, finds himself as the master with a 15-year-old boy as his disciple in which he must teach him that the act of revenge can lead to the death of the spirit.

When a man kills a criminal trying to murder Caine, the townsmen ask him to go after the evil and deadly father next.

Caine saves a man's mind by demonstrating that ugliness -- and reality and illusion -- can be in the eye of the beholder.

Without returning violence for violence, Caine ends the tyranny of a "Chinese Mafia" and liberates a boy slave.

A tormented Army lieutenant (Tim Matheson) who feels himself a coward pursues Caine after the priest escapes wrongful imprisonment.

Caine befriends a group of Hutterites who are God-fearing and simple people yet fear contamination from outsiders. They are involved in a dispute over a nearby waterhole with cattlemen who fear that their sheep may infect the water.

Caine prescribes an emotional cure for a medicine-show goddess stricken with a deadly type of independence.

Two emotionally repressed people learn from Caine that to accept pain as the price of love is the mark of life.

Caine changes a Texas Ranger's life by showing him that the law can murder justice.

Caine finds a wealthy man hanging in the marsh that mysteriously disappears after he gets shot, and later finds that several people in town had reason to kill him.

Caine, pitted against a Chinese Robin Hood, teaches a boy that only the heart can truly conquer.

A proud Southern belle, imprisoned in a pit with Caine, learns that serving others and being served are folds of the same garment.

The prostitutes of a bawdy house and their madam turn to Caine for protection against vigilantes.

Caine is injected into a war between a hate-maddened detective and an outlaw leading a gang of ex-farmers victimized by a railroad.

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Caine and blind preacher Serenity Johnson choose a path toward a confrontation with evil when they encounter a man possessed by the devil in his own dual nature.

Caine is involved in separate adventures in two interweaving story lines: he helps a mad mountain man save his dying wife, and -- in a flashback to China --- battles a warlord to win a concubine's heart.

Caine resolves his adventures with a mad mountain man, and -- in a flashback to China -- a marathon kung fu battle with a warlord to win a concubine's heart.

Chinese assassins seek Caine, who seeks his grandfather's murderer; with Eddie Albert, Edward Albert, Patricia Neal.

Caine solves his grandfather's murder and faces the assassins; with Eddie Albert, Edward Albert, Patricia Neal.

Caine must forfeit a finger to gain the Chinese emperor's pardon; guests William Shatner, France Nuyen, Rosemary Forsyth.

Caine rescues a clairvoyant woman (Sondra Locke) who has escaped from a mental institution and helps her to confront her inner fears.

A charge of attempted murder spurs Caine to invade the lair of vicious killers and kidnap the only man who can clear him.

Caine believes he's found his half-brother (James Wainwright), who is stalked by an ambitious gunman; guests Carol Lawrence, A Martinez.

A childhood dream convinces Caine a pregnant woman's (Stefanie Powers) fate is linked to a buffalo calf; guest Don Stroud.

Caine confronts an embodiment of evil (Soon-Teck Oh) who arrives at the Shaolin temple to challenge Master Kan to deadly ritual combat.

Caine's former Shaolin teacher (James Shigeta) seeks revenge against the railroad that he holds responsible for the death of his nephew.

A Chinese warlord threatens to destroy the Shaolin temple unless a young nun is surrendered to his passion.

A warlord besieges the temple, where his betrothed has sought refuge; with Barbara Seagull (Hershey).

The boy Caine lies dying of poison, while the man Caine endures a scorpion's bite and ghostly visions. Directed by David Carradine.

Caine protects a dying photographer (Lew Ayres) from a vengeful Indian youth who believes the man's camera stole his spirit.

Caine must teach a peacemaker (Alejandro Rey) how to kill in order to repay his debt of honor to the man's father.

Caine recalls his desperate attempt to escape a clever pursuer (James Shigeta) and flee China after killing the nephew of the emperor.

Caine must struggle with a demon of fear from his past to help a woman addicted to drugs; guests Bruce Carradine, Wilford Brimley.

Two vagabond musicians join Caine in an unusual adventure about a search for a boyhood dream that leads to murder.

Caine works as a prizefighter for a man (Leslie Nielsen) holding the priest's nephew hostage; with Lois Nettleton.

Caine flees with his half-brother's wife (Lois Nettleton) and son (John Blyth Barrymore) through Indian lands; guest Leslie Nielsen.

Caine, his nephew and pursuing bounty hunters locate the priest's half-brother (Tim McIntire); guests Leslie Nielsen, Carl Weathers.

Caine seeks to reunite Danny Caine's family and save his half-brother from a band of bounty hunters; guests Leslie Nielsen, A Martinez.

Caine teams with a prince of thieves to restore a Chinese grand duke deposed by an evil relative (James Hong) to his rightful throne.

The blind preacher Serenity Johnson (John Carradine) feigns illness to enlist Caine's aid in recovering a debt; guest Pat Morita.

Caine pursues the renegade Confederate soldiers who kidnapped two boys, one black and one white; guests Charles Haid, Hal Williams.