The worst episodes of Kung Fu
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
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.
- 02
Caine solves his grandfather's murder and faces the assassins; with Eddie Albert, Edward Albert, Patricia Neal.
- 03
Caine must forfeit a finger to gain the Chinese emperor's pardon; guests William Shatner, France Nuyen, Rosemary Forsyth.
- 04
Caine rescues a clairvoyant woman (Sondra Locke) who has escaped from a mental institution and helps her to confront her inner fears.
- 05
Caine believes he's found his half-brother (James Wainwright), who is stalked by an ambitious gunman; guests Carol Lawrence, A Martinez.
- 06
A childhood dream convinces Caine a pregnant woman's (Stefanie Powers) fate is linked to a buffalo calf; guest Don Stroud.
- 07
Caine's former Shaolin teacher (James Shigeta) seeks revenge against the railroad that he holds responsible for the death of his nephew.
- 08
Besieged (1): Death on Cold Mountain
A Chinese warlord threatens to destroy the Shaolin temple unless a young nun is surrendered to his passion.
- 09
The boy Caine lies dying of poison, while the man Caine endures a scorpion's bite and ghostly visions. Directed by David Carradine.
- 10
Caine works as a prizefighter for a man (Leslie Nielsen) holding the priest's nephew hostage; with Lois Nettleton.
- 11
Caine flees with his half-brother's wife (Lois Nettleton) and son (John Blyth Barrymore) through Indian lands; guest Leslie Nielsen.
- 12
Caine, his nephew and pursuing bounty hunters locate the priest's half-brother (Tim McIntire); guests Leslie Nielsen, Carl Weathers.
- 13
Caine seeks to reunite Danny Caine's family and save his half-brother from a band of bounty hunters; guests Leslie Nielsen, A Martinez.
- 14
Caine teams with a prince of thieves to restore a Chinese grand duke deposed by an evil relative (James Hong) to his rightful throne.
- 15
The blind preacher Serenity Johnson (John Carradine) feigns illness to enlist Caine's aid in recovering a debt; guest Pat Morita.
- 16
Caine pursues the renegade Confederate soldiers who kidnapped two boys, one black and one white; guests Charles Haid, Hal Williams.
- 17
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.
- 18
A woman (Lane Bradbury) impregnated in a rape endures more tragedy when she and her father try to take revenge on her soldier-attacker.
- 19
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.
- 20
Cats are scarce in the Old West, and Caine must replace one to appease the death of one killed by a gold seeking miner.
- 21
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.
- 22
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.
- 23
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.
- 24
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.
- 25
Caine challenges a killer to be his own judge and his victim's widow to accept the verdict.
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