The essential episodes of Kung Fu
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Kung Fu — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Kwai Chang Caine, the half-American Shaolin Monk, befriends a boy without housing, foils a bounty hunter and experiences the pain of love.
- 02
Kwai Chang Caine helps to restore the faith of a preacher while he is searching for his grandfather to discover his United States heritage.
- 03
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.
- 04
A woman (Lane Bradbury) impregnated in a rape endures more tragedy when she and her father try to take revenge on her soldier-attacker.
- 05
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.
- 06
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.
- 07
Cats are scarce in the Old West, and Caine must replace one to appease the death of one killed by a gold seeking miner.
- 08
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.
- 09
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.
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
Chinese assassins seek Caine, who seeks his grandfather's murderer; with Eddie Albert, Edward Albert, Patricia Neal.
- 15
Caine pursues the renegade Confederate soldiers who kidnapped two boys, one black and one white; guests Charles Haid, Hal Williams.
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