Kung Fu season 1 - Metacritic

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ABC
Feb 22, 1972

ABC
Feb 22, 1972

Summary This series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest, in the American West. Caine was an orphan of a Chinese-American marriage, and was schooled in a Shaolin monastery, by his mentors, Masters Po and Kan. Through his life's journeys, he remembers the lessons and philosophy they imparted him with, in dealing with the...

ABC
Feb 22, 1972

ABC
Feb 22, 1972

Season 1

Season Premiere: Feb 22, 1972

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Summary This series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest, in the American West. Caine was an orphan of a Chinese-American marriage, and was schooled in a Shaolin monastery, by his mentors, Masters Po and Kan. Through his life's journeys, he remembers the lessons and philosophy they imparted him with, in dealing with the...

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Episode 0 • Feb 22, 1972 • 1 h 15 m

The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon.

After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.

Episode 1 • Oct 14, 1972 • 48 m

King of the Mountain

Caine looks after a newly orphaned boy and a young, pretty rancher while a bounty hunter atop a nearby mountain silently observes his opportunity to pounce.

Episode 2 • Nov 11, 1972 • 51 m

Lordsville preacher Serenity Johnson is literally blinded by greed, while Caine locates his paternal grandfather, who has lived a bitter life blinded by prejudice.

Episode 3 • Jan 18, 1973 • 50 m

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.

Episode 4 • Jan 25, 1973 • 50 m

An Eye for an Eye

Caine encounters a pregnant rape victim who is bent on having the 3 army officers who committed the crime, killed.

Episode 5 • Feb 1, 1973 • 50 m

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.

Episode 6 • Feb 8, 1973 • 49 m

The Soul Is the Warrior

A powerful rancher demands justice for the death of his son, requiring Caine to reveal the man's greatest fear.

Episode 7 • Feb 15, 1973 • 50 m

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

Episode 8 • Feb 22, 1973 • 50 m

Sun and Cloud Shadow

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.

Episode 9 • Mar 15, 1973 • 49 m

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.

Episode 10 • Mar 22, 1973 • 49 m

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.

Episode 11 • Mar 29, 1973 • 50 m

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.

Episode 12 • Apr 5, 1973 • 51 m

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.

Episode 13 • Apr 12, 1973 • 50 m

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.

Episode 14 • Apr 26, 1973 • 51 m

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

Episode 15 • May 3, 1973 • 51 m

The Ancient Warrior

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.

Top Cast

David Carradine

Kwai Chang Caine, Caine

Radames Pera

Young Caine

Keye Luke

Master Po

Philip Ahn

Master Kan

James Hong

Chun Yen, Han Tsung, Hsiang

Tad Horino

Cowled Head, Chemist, First Elder

Victor Sen Yung

Tamo, Chu, Chuen

James Weatherill

Deputy, First Vigilante, Guard (Benson)

Richard Loo

Master Sun, Chen, Ho Fai, The Weapons Master

Yuki Shimoda

Shun Low, Bandit, Ben Tai

Tim McIntire

Daniel Caine, Deputy Mitchell, Samuel Buchanan

John Fujioka

Cook, Hsiang, Shen Ming Tien, Wuang Chu, Ying

Clyde Kusatsu

Han Su Lok, Lama Campo Kushog, Lo Sing, Po San, Ying's Son

Leslie Nielsen

Vincent Corbino

Khigh Dhiegh

Warlord Sing Lu Chan, Chung, Shang Tzu

Benson Fong

Han Fei, Li Yu, Soong, Sorcerer Liu

John Blyth Barrymore

Zeke

Frank Michael Liu

Huo, Lew Soong, Teh-Soong, Yo-Lin

Tim Haldeman

First Gunfighter, Jason, Second Vigilante, Shattrow

Ted Gehring

Fuller, Sarnicky

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