Kung Fu

1972 • ABC

4.7

331 reviews

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The Complete Series episodes (62)

1 Season 1, Episode 1 King Of The Mountain

10/14/72

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE), the half-American Buddhist monk from China, wandering the American West as a wanted fugitive, befriends a homeless boy, foils a bounty hunter, and experiences the pain of love.

2 Season 1, Episode 2 Dark Angel

11/11/72

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE), a half-American Buddhist monk from China, restores the eyes and faith of a phony preacher (JOHN CARRADINE), blinded by Indians, and finds his own roots in America.

3 Season 1, Episode 3 Blood Brother

1/18/73

Season-only

In Arizona Territory, the half-American Buddhist monk, Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE), attempts to arrest the killers of a young man with whom he grew up in a Chinese temple. Robert Urich guest stars.

4 Season 1, Episode 4 An Eye For An Eye

1/25/73

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE), the half-American Buddhist monk from China, wandering the American West as a hunted fugitive, teaches forgiveness to an old man and his daughter after a rape has led to double tragedy.

5 Season 1, Episode 5 The Tide

2/1/73

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) escapes from a mantrap and is caught in a far more dangerous snare, this one set by a beautiful woman. Mako guest stars.

6 Season 1, Episode 6 The Soul Is The Warrior

2/8/73

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE), the half-American Buddhist monk, using a lesson learned in a Chinese temple, explores the depths of a man's soul in order to save another's life.

7 Season 1, Episode 7 Nine Lives

2/15/73

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) teaches a gold hunter that a good turn received indebts a man to perform 10 good turns for others, and that true riches is a matter of the human heart.

8 Season 1, Episode 8 Sun And Cloud Shadow

2/22/73

Season-only

Kung fu and karate confront each other in a full-dress showdown as Caine (DAVID CARRADINE), the man of peace, teaches a girl in a crisis in her life that there is no peace without self-respect.

9 Season 1, Episode 9 Chains

3/8/73

Season-only

Shackled to a brute of a man thirsting for his enemies' blood, Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) probes the cause of his hatred and leaves him transformed in the wilderness.

10 Season 1, Episode 10 Alethea

3/15/73

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) goes manhunting to teach a little girl (JODIE FOSTER) the importance and fragility of human integrity and to heal the wound in her soul after she has saved him from the gallows at the cost of her sense of innocence.

11 Season 1, Episode 11 A Praying Mantis Kills

3/22/73

Season-only

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 (DAVID CARRADINE) teaches them both to temper justice with mercy.

12 Season 1, Episode 12 Superstition

4/5/73

Season-only

Caine's (DAVID CARRADINE) peace of soul reaches out to break the power of a curse more deadly than the cave-in sealing him and a group of other prisoners in a mine.

13 Season 1, Episode 13 The Stone

4/12/73

Season-only

It's kung fu vs. Brazil's fighting technique of capoeira as a man learns from Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) that to fight injustice anywhere is to fight it everywhere.

14 Season 1, Episode 14 The Third Man

4/26/73

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) challenges a killer to be his own judge, and a woman to accept the verdict.

15 Season 1, Episode 15 Ancient Warrior

5/3/73

Season-only

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. Gary Busey guest stars.

16 Season 2, Episode 1 The Well

9/27/73

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE), 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.

17 Season 2, Episode 2 The Assassin

10/4/73

Season-only

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

18 Season 2, Episode 3 The Chalice

10/11/73

Season-only

Because of an attachment to a beautiful thing, a holy man dies as a thief, and Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) makes restitution so the soul can rest after being blessed by a fellow cleric (GILBERT ROLAND).

19 Season 2, Episode 4 El Brujo

10/25/73

Season-only

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

20 Season 2, Episode 5 The Squaw Man

11/1/73

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE), confronted with ignorance and prejudice, saves an outcast from turning a brief moment of glory into disaster for himself and his pregnant Indian wife.

21 Season 2, Episode 6 The Spirit-Helper

11/8/73

Season-only

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

22 Season 2, Episode 7 The Tong

11/15/73

Season-only

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

23 Season 2, Episode 8 The Soldier

11/29/73

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) delivers a self-accused coward from inner torment by showing him the nature of courage.

24 Season 2, Episode 9 The Salamander

12/6/73

Season-only

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

25 Season 2, Episode 10 The Hoots

12/13/73

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE), delivering a religious sect from persecution, shows that tolerance must come from a mutual understanding.

26 Season 2, Episode 11 The Elixer

12/20/73

Season-only

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

27 Season 2, Episode 12 The Gunman

1/3/74

Season-only

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

28 Season 2, Episode 13 Empty Pages Of A Dead Book

1/10/74

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) changes a Texas Ranger's (ROBERT FOXWORTH) life by showing him that the law can murder justice. Slim Pickens guest stars.

29 Season 2, Episode 14 A Dream Within A Dream

1/17/74

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) sees dramatized that every man is three things -- what he thinks he is, what others think he is, and what he really is -- when some of the people in a small town (HOWARD DUFF, JOHN DREW BARRYMORE, RUTH ROMAN, TINA LOUISE) are confronted by the death of one of their leading citizens.

30 Season 2, Episode 15 The Way Of Violence Has No Mind

1/24/74

Season-only

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

31 Season 2, Episode 16 In Uncertain Bondage

2/7/74

Season-only

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

32 Season 2, Episode 17 Night Of The Owls, Day Of The Doves

2/14/74

Season-only

The prostitutes of a bawdy house and their madam (ANNE FRANCIS) turn to Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) for protection against vigilantes.

33 Season 2, Episode 18 Crossties

2/21/74

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) is injected into a war between a hate-maddened detective (BARRY SULLIVAN) and an outlaw (ANDY ROBINSON) leading a gang of ex-farmers victimized by a railroad.

34 Season 2, Episode 19 The Passion Of Chen Yi

2/28/74

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE), delivering a fellow Shaolin from a gallant but foolish death for a woman, turns an old enemy into a friend.

35 Season 2, Episode 20 Arrogant Dragon

3/14/74

Season-only

For the sake of an unwed mother and her unborn child, Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) champions an aging tong leader who is under a sentence of death.

36 Season 2, Episode 21 The Nature Of Evil

3/21/74

Season-only

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

37 Season 2, Episode 22 The Cenopath, Part 1

4/4/74

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) is involved in separate adventures in two interweaving storylines: he helps a mad mountain man (STEFAN GIERASCH) save his dying wife, and -- in a flashback to China --- battles a warlord (STEFAN GIERASCH) to win a concubine's (NANCY KWAN) heart.

38 Season 2, Episode 23 The Cenopath, Part 2

4/11/74

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) resolves his adventures with a mad mountain man (STEFAN GIERASCH), and -- in a flashback to China -- a marathon kung fu battle with a warlord (STEFAN GIERASCH) to win a concubine's (NANCY KWAN) heart.

39 Season 3, Episode 1 Blood Of The Dragon - part 1

9/14/74

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) is stalked by two deadly adversaries: The Order of the Avenging Dragon--who act as guardians to the Royal Household of Imperial China and have sworn to avenge the death of the royal nephew--and by Sara Kingsley (PATRICIA NEAL), the matriarch of a ranching empire, who considers Caine's insistent probing into her family's background a threat to her existence.

40 Season 3, Episode 2 Blood Of The Dragon - part 2

9/14/74

Season-only

The life of Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) is threatened by two deadly forces--by the Chinese assassins sent to America by the Order of the Avenging Dragon and by Sara Kingsley (PATRICIA NEAL), a matriarch of a ranching family with a sinister secret.

41 Season 3, Episode 3 A Small Beheading

9/21/74

Season-only

A swashbuckling sea captain (WILLIAM SHATNER) and his wife (FRANCE NUYEN) involve Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) in a macabre plot to return him to China and certain death.

42 Season 3, Episode 4 This Valley Of Terror

9/28/74

Season-only

A journey to mysterious Indian burial grounds -- and into the frightening recesses of the human mind -- awaits Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) when he encounters a young woman (SONDRA LOCKE) who has escaped from an insane asylum.

43 Season 3, Episode 5 The Predators

10/5/74

Season-only

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

44 Season 3, Episode 6 My Brother, My Executioner

10/12/74

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) continues his search for his American half-brother, only to learn that Danny Caine is being drawn into a shootout by an ambitious gunfighter.

45 Season 3, Episode 7 Cry Of The Night Beast

10/19/74

Season-only

A mystical revelation compels Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) to protect a buffalo calf whose life force is supernaturally linked to a young, expectant mother.

46 Season 3, Episode 8 The Devil's Champion

11/1/74

Season-only

An incredible battle of good vs. evil looms as Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) confronts the Prince of Darkness to save the life of Master Kan (PHILIP AHN).

47 Season 3, Episode 9 The Garments Of Rage

11/8/74

Season-only

Disciple opposes master when Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) takes a stand against a renegade Shaolin priest (JAMES SHIGETA) terrorizing a railroad company in America to avenge his nephew's death.

48 Season 3, Episode 10 Besieged: Death On A Cold Mountain

11/15/74

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) leads an attack against a Chinese warlord who threatens to destroy the Shaolin temple unless a young, novice nun is surrendered to his passion.

First part of a two-part episode that concludes with Besieged: Cannon at the Gates

49 Season 3, Episode 11 Besieged: Cannon At The Gates

11/22/74

Season-only

Caine's (DAVID CARRADINE) love for the intended bride of a Chinese warlord is overshadowed by the warrior's threat to destroy the Shaolin temple where she has sought refuge.

Second part of a two-part episode that begins with Besieged: Death on a Cold Mountain

50 Season 3, Episode 12 The Demon God

12/13/74

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine--both the boy (RADAMES PERA) and the man (DAVID CARRADINE)--confront the menace of death in a bizarre mystery of the supernatural.

51 Season 3, Episode 13 The Vanishing Image

12/20/74

Season-only

Death comes in three forms when Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) confronts a killer from China, a dying photographer (LEW AYRES) and an Indian youth threatened by the death of his own spirit.

52 Season 3, Episode 14 A Lamb To The Slaughter

1/11/75

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) is forced to repay a family debt of honor--by teaching a peaceful man how to kill!

53 Season 3, Episode 15 The Forbidden Kingdom

1/18/75

Season-only

The dramatic events that forced Shaolin priest Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) to flee China unfold again as Caine relives his desperate attempt to escape the Emperor's revenge.

54 Season 3, Episode 16 One Step To Darkness

1/25/75

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) enters the spirit world to exorcise a demon and save a woman from the horrors of drug addiction.

55 Season 3, Episode 17 Battle Hymn

2/8/75

Season-only

Two vagabond musicians (JOSE FELICIANO and JULIAN "CANNONBALL" ADDERLEY) join Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) in an unusual adventure about a search for a boyhood dream that leads to murder.

56 Season 3, Episode 18 Danny Caine: Barbary House

2/15/75

Season-only

Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) becomes a Barbary Coast prizefighter in an effort to locate his brother before he's killed. First part of a four-part episode. Leslie Nielsen guest stars.

57 Season 3, Episode 19 Danny Caine: Flight To Orion

2/22/75

Season-only

Indians, desert killers and a Barbary Coast overlord menace Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) as he continues to search for his brother. Second part of a four-part episode. Leslie Nielsen guest stars.

58 Season 3, Episode 20 The Brothers Caine

3/1/75

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine's (DAVID CARRADINE) long search for Danny Caine (TIM McINTIRE) comes to an end in a deserted mine where his brother is waiting to kill him! Third part of a four-part episode. Leslie Nielsen and Carl Weathers guest star.

59 Season 3, Episode 21 Full Circle

3/15/75

Season-only

Brothers Kwai Chang (DAVID CARRADINE) and Danny Caine (TIM McINTIRE) stand shoulder to shoulder in a fight for their lives as they try to reunite their family. Fourth part of a four-part episode. Leslie Nielsen guest stars.

60 Season 3, Episode 22 The Thief Of Chendo

3/29/75

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) enlists the aid of the Prince of Thieves to restore a Chinese Duke to his royal throne.

61 Season 3, Episode 23 Ambush

4/5/75

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) assists blind preacher Serenity Johnson (JOHN CARRADINE) to swindle the most dangerous man in Arizona.

62 Season 3, Episode 24 The Last Raid

4/26/75

Season-only

Kwai Chang Caine (DAVID CARRADINE) comes to the aid of a black family and a white family whose sons are kidnapped by a renegade Confederate Army officer.

About this show

Wanderer. Warrior. Priest. David Carradine stars as Kwai Chang Caine, a man of peace in a land of violence. From his first days as a Shaolin “grasshopper” and the tragedy that made him a fugitive with a price on his head to the fulfillment of his long quest, here are the adventures of the Old West’s most unusual hero.

Ratings and reviews

4.7

331 reviews

Robert Stratman

June 10, 2016

I love the old shows. They had boundrys. The makers of today's T.V.shows hold NOTHING Sacred.. I'm LIVING REAL LIFE. After a full day of Real Life's twisted cruelty I don't want to sit & watch a SHOW that lined up assaulted women & dead little one's.. I watch tv to ESCAPE all that crap. Take me to MAYBERRY

69 people found this review helpful

Annica McCarthy

February 12, 2018

Kung Fu is about empowerment with truth and insight. It is much more than a martial arts series. It teaches the worth and potential of all people and always leaves me musing deep in thought. I watched it as a new series. I watch it now as a 63 year old woman and this has let me contrast my old and perspective on things. I find I understand this series on many more levels then I did in my teens and early twenties

Michael Calibri

April 9, 2015

I'm happy I barely paid anything for the DVDs legitimately. To think that Google expects me to pay almost $80 for something this aged although great is preposterous. This is like the weird situation where Google offers you a price increase for HD quality for a show that wasn't even filmed in HD quality. Overpriced but terrific show. The show however is Excellent. Just stop robbing people Google.

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