Kung Fu
Season 2
23 episodes
- S02E01
The Well
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.
- S02E02
The Assassin
Caine uses the love in two men's hearts to thwart their hatred and break a chain of murder.
- S02E03
The Chalice
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.
- S02E04
The Brujo
Caine, proving that faith is a two-edged sword of good and evil, breaks a witch's very real curse over a whole town.
- S02E05
The Spirit Helper
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.
- S02E06
The Squaw Man
When a man kills a criminal trying to murder Caine, the townsmen ask him to go after the evil and deadly father next.
- S02E07
The Salamander
Caine saves a man's mind by demonstrating that ugliness -- and reality and illusion -- can be in the eye of the beholder.
- S02E08
The Tong
Without returning violence for violence, Caine ends the tyranny of a "Chinese Mafia" and liberates a boy slave.
- S02E09
The Soldier
A tormented Army lieutenant (Tim Matheson) who feels himself a coward pursues Caine after the priest escapes wrongful imprisonment.
- S02E10
The Hoots
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.
- S02E11
The Elixir
Caine prescribes an emotional cure for a medicine-show goddess stricken with a deadly type of independence.
- S02E12
The Gunman
Two emotionally repressed people learn from Caine that to accept pain as the price of love is the mark of life.
- S02E13
Empty Pages of a Dead Book
Caine changes a Texas Ranger's life by showing him that the law can murder justice.
- S02E14
A Dream Within a Dream
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.
- S02E15
The Way of Violence Has No Mind
Caine, pitted against a Chinese Robin Hood, teaches a boy that only the heart can truly conquer.
- S02E16
In Uncertain Bondage
A proud Southern belle, imprisoned in a pit with Caine, learns that serving others and being served are folds of the same garment.
- S02E17
Night of the Owls, Day of the Doves
The prostitutes of a bawdy house and their madam turn to Caine for protection against vigilantes.
- S02E18
Crossties
Caine is injected into a war between a hate-maddened detective and an outlaw leading a gang of ex-farmers victimized by a railroad.
- S02E19
The Passion of Chen Yi
The Passion of Chen Yi — Season 2, Episode 19 of Kung Fu. Aired 1974-02-28. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E20
Arrogant Dragon
Arrogant Dragon — Season 2, Episode 20 of Kung Fu. Aired 1974-03-14. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S02E21
The Nature of Evil
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.
- S02E22
The Cenotaph (1)
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.
- S02E23
The Cenotaph (2)
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.
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