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  • TV-PG
  • ABC
  • Jan 10, 1974
  • 51 m
  • TV-PG
  • ABC
  • Jan 10, 1974
  • 51 m

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...

Directed By: John Llewellyn Moxey

Written By: Ed Spielman, Herman Miller, Charles McDaniel

  • TV-PG
  • ABC
  • Jan 10, 1974
  • 51 m
  • TV-PG
  • ABC
  • Jan 10, 1974
  • 51 m
Kung Fu
S2 • Episode 13
Empty Pages of a Dead Book
Air Date: Jan 10, 1974
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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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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 27, 1973 • 50 m
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.
Episode 2 • Oct 4, 1973 • 50 m
The Assassin
Caine uses the love in two men's hearts to thwart their hatred and break a chain of murder.
Episode 3 • Oct 11, 1973 • 50 m
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.
Episode 4 • Oct 25, 1973 • 50 m
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.
Episode 5 • Nov 1, 1973 • 50 m
The Squawman
When a man kills a criminal trying to murder Caine, the townsmen ask him to go after the evil and deadly father next.
Episode 6 • Nov 8, 1973 • 50 m
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.
Episode 7 • Nov 15, 1973 • 51 m
The Tong
Without returning violence for violence, Caine ends the tyranny of a "Chinese Mafia" and liberates a boy slave.
Episode 8 • Nov 29, 1973 • 51 m
The Soldier
Caine delivers a self-accused coward from inner torment by showing him the nature of courage.
Episode 9 • Dec 6, 1973 • 51 m
The Salamander
Caine saves a man's mind by demonstrating that ugliness -- and reality and illusion -- can be in the eye of the beholder.
Episode 10 • Dec 13, 1973 • 51 m
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.
Episode 11 • Dec 20, 1973 • 50 m
The Elixir
Caine prescribes an emotional cure for a medicine-show goddess stricken with a deadly type of independence.
Episode 12 • Jan 3, 1974 • 50 m
The Gunman
Two emotionally repressed people learn from Caine that to accept pain as the price of love is the mark of life.
Episode 13 • Jan 10, 1974 • 51 m
Empty Pages of a Dead Book
Caine changes a Texas Ranger's life by showing him that the law can murder justice.
Episode 14 • Jan 17, 1974 • 51 m
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.
Episode 15 • Jan 24, 1974 • 51 m
The Way of Violence Has No Mind
Caine, pitted against a Chinese Robin Hood, teaches a boy that only the heart can truly conquer.
Episode 16 • Feb 7, 1974 • 51 m
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.
Episode 17 • Feb 14, 1974 • 51 m
Night of the Owls, Day of the Doves
The prostitutes of a bawdy house and their madam (ANNE FRANCIS) turn to Caine for protection against vigilantes.
Episode 18 • Feb 21, 1974 • 50 m
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.
Episode 19 • Feb 28, 1974 • 51 m
The Passion of Chen Yi
Caine, delivering a fellow Shaolin from a gallant but foolish death for a woman, turns an old enemy into a friend.
Episode 20 • Mar 14, 1974 • 50 m
Arrogant Dragon
For the sake of an unwed mother and her unborn child, Caine champions an aging tong leader who is under a sentence of death.
Episode 21 • Mar 21, 1974 • 51 m
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.
Episode 22 • Apr 4, 1974 • 49 m
The Cenotaph: Part I
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.
Episode 23 • Apr 11, 1974 • 51 m
The Cenotaph: Part II
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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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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