The BEST episodes of Kung Fu
Every episode of Kung Fu ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kung Fu!
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
#1 - Dark Angel
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/1972
Caine travels to Lordsville looking for his grandfather. On his way he helps a man attacked by indians and the man gives him a map to a goldmine. Caine gives the map to an old preacher who helped him.
#2 - Empty Pages of a Dead Book
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1974
The son of a deceased Texas Ranger tries to honor his memory by going after criminals his father kept a journal on. He finds more trouble than he expected and Caine must defend him.
#3 - The Brujo
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1973
While wandering in Mexico, Caine comes across an old woman and a young boy. The woman is trapped under a cart and asks Caine to take care of the boy. He takes him to a small Mexican village which believes it is under the spell of a warlock.
#4 - The Devil's Champion
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1974
We return to Caine's past in China. Caine witnesses a man defeat six others in the village. The man instructs Caine to deliver a challenge. He demands a fight to the death with Master Kan or he will kill a villager every day until he gets it.
#5 - Chains
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/15/1973
Caine is imprisoned at an army outpost, and escapes... chained to his hulking, mountain-man cellmate, and are persued by a relentless sergent. Who is determined to collect the reward offered for Caine's capture.
#6 - Blood Brother
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/18/1973
While passing through the Arizona territory town of Kilgore, Caine learns of a Shaolin friend who lived there, and won't leave till he breaks the community's conspiracy surrounding his disappearance.
#7 - The Passion of Chen Yi
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/1974
Caine tries to visit an unjustly jailed Shaolin student, but keeps being turned away. He then commits a crime so he can be put in jail with him, hoping to clear up an old misunderstanding and help free the student.
#8 - The Ancient Warrior
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/3/1973
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.
#9 - The Soldier
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/1973
Caine is accused of taking part in a bandit ambush, and is taken prisoner by the U.S. Cavalry. He meets a soldier that is a conscientious objector that helps him clear his name.
#10 - In Uncertain Bondage
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1974
Caine recalls lessons learned as a youth when he and a Southern belle are trapped in a deep pit, held there by kidnappers.
#11 - The Way of Violence Has No Mind
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1974
Caine confronts a gang of Chinese immigrants that have taken to violence.
#12 - The Hoots
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/1973
Caine meets a group of Hutterite settlers, who must reconsider their pacifist background when attacked by bigoted cattlemen, and teaches them how to defend themselves without compromising their principles.
#13 - Blood of the Dragon (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1974
Caine goes to meet with his grandfather again, only to find he has been murdered. He searches for the murderer, unaware that a group of assassins from China are after him.
#14 - Night of the Owls, Day of the Doves
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1974
Caine must defend prostitutes that want to start a new life with land bequeathed to them, from cattlemen that want to seize it for themselves.
#15 - Blood of the Dragon (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1974
Caine meets a woman that was his grandfather's lover, and is very hostile to his inquiries, while a group of Chinese assassins (believed to be able to summon forth demon fighters) closes in on him.
#16 - Besieged (1): Death on Cold Mountain
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1974
A reclusive hermit, Tamo, arrives at the Honan monastery to inform them that the Tukien monastery was attacked and destroyed by a warlord with his cannon, and that he has survivors seeking refuge there. One of the survivors is a woman who wants to become a Shaolin monk. She later reveals the warlord wanted her to be his wife, and she fled. Now the warlord is preparing to attack the monastery and having his cannon brought there.
#17 - The Chalice
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1973
Caught between a Gatling Gun and a fort full of murderous killers, Caine must rescue a stolen chalice in order to make restitution for a dead Franciscan priest.
#18 - King of the Mountain
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/1972
Caine finds a young boy at a burned out cabin and tries to help him find his uncle. Along the way, bounty hunters find him.
#19 - The Tong
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1973
Caine help a young Chinese orphan boy gain his freedom from a brutal master. The master goes to the Tong for help against Caine.
#20 - The Spirit-Helper
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1973
Caine helps a young Indian man who saw his father killed and wants to kill the men who did it and rescue his mother from them.
#21 - Sun and Cloud Shadow
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/1973
Caine brokers a settlement between a landowner and Chinese miners, but the landowner adds an unacceptable condition to the deal. Meanwhile, a karate master intends to capture Caine.
#22 - The Praying Mantis Kills
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/29/1973
Murderous thugs come looking for Caine after he identifies them as perpetrators of a bank robbery. A youth's ideas about how to be a man are challenged by Caine's quiet heroics.
#23 - Superstition
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/5/1973
Walls imprison the men unjustly sentenced to work as miners at a brutal labour camp. Yet an even greater barrier holds them captive; fear of the camp's ancient Indian curse. But Caine knows no such fear.
#24 - The Cenotaph (1)
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1974
Caine meets Logan McBurney, a Scotsman who has hijacked a gold-transporting stagecoach named Old Ironsides, to haul an enormous box that he claims is his dead Sioux wife's coffin. Along the way to the burial ground, which is on Sioux land, Caine remembers times in the monastery, unaware that several robbers are following closely, hoping to take Old Ironsides for themselves.
#25 - The Cenotaph (2)
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1974
Caine and Logan arrive at the Sioux burial ground, to bury what Caine believes is Logan's wife in a huge crate, and are confronted by angry Sioux warriors who feel they are trespassing. They must also deal with two robbers as well as the US Cavalry. Caine recalls his own love story, that like Logan's wife, ended tragically.