Kung Fu: The Legend Continues was the continuation of the popular '70s drama Kung Fu. While Kung Fu was set back in the early 1900s, This version is set in modern day. It features David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine's grandson, also named Kwai Chang Caine who is a Shaolin priest. The show also featured Chris Potter as Peter Caine a police officer. The show usually dealt with mystical shaolin dealings but at times had events such as kidnappings and stopping robbers.
On the set of a martial arts movie, whose star resembles Peter as closely as any identical twin, something evil is sabotaging the film.
Watch Now:AmazonCaine only has a few hours to find a rare herb that is needed to save the life of a little girl. Unfortunately, the woods, where the herb grows, have been taken over by a survivalist who has set booby traps to keep people out.
Peter investigates a case where two physicians have died of unknown causes. A third physician says he is also dying and Caine agrees with that diagnosis. The third doctor tell Peter that he knows who has "murdered" him.
Caine asks Peter if he can spend the day with him, wanting to see how Peter spends a normal day.
An earthquake shakes up the city, and shakes loose a criminal that Peter and Jody just apprehended.
When a student of Caine's disappears, Peter and his father try to find her and come upon a white slavery ring.
A South American witch doctor (a "brujo") from Peter's childhood, possesses him.
Watch Now:AmazonWhen some high-tech criminals decide to rob a bank, they take more than twenty people hostage. Unfortunately for them, one of the hostages happens to be Caine.
While sitting at the bedside of an injured Peter, Caine reflects upon his early days in Chinatown when he and Peter fought against corrupt cops and would-be crime boss Clarence Choi.
Kermit's sister is being dogged by ""dark forces"" in her house, where a murder had been committed. Who's she gonna call? Caine.
Watch Now:AmazonCaine is held captive in a castle where an ""evil beyond comprehension"" lurks. Its personification: his brother Damon.
Kwai Chang Caine enrolls in a speech class while Peter tries to solve a rash of crimes against local merchants. Several of the merchants,who happen to be in the class, are being terrorized by members of a triad group led by Li Sung (see earlier episode ""Tournament"") and his new disciple Clarence Choi (see earlier episodes ""The Lacquered Box"" and ""Aspects of the Soul""). Li Sung wants to take control of the successful businesses owned by these merchants, and kidnaps their teacher in an attempt to get them to comply. Banding together with Caine and Peter, the merchants fight back against the triad and manage to free their teacher and send Clarence and Li Sung back to prison.
Caine is poisoned by some assailants with a toxin that affects his chi, his life force. According to the Ancient, Caine will die, unless his spirit and his chi can be reunited.
After a date with Scalany, Caine is hit by a car, then disappears. Months later he surfaces aa a casino pianist---who recognizes no one from the precinct.
Watch Now:AmazonOne of Caine's former students, Valerie, seeks his protection after she witnesses a murder.
Caine helps a Native American tribesman who is opposing the building of a casino on reservation land.
When a young Chinese emperor is targeted for murder, Peter and Caine end up protecting him during his return trip to China. They are pursued by a determined agent of the Chinese government.
When an Assistant District Attorney is murdered, the evidence points to Peter, as the likely suspect.
A hold-up man shoots Skalany in a small-town diner, but the real bad guy is his boss---a U.S. Marshall.
Caine goes undercover in a psychiatric hospital to protect a patient he believes is not crazy; but in real danger.
A carnival house of horrors scares a man to death --- thanks to its operator, an old adversary of Caine's known as Dr. Frieze.
Peter has a difficult time protecting a woman from a stalker, a rogue police officer. Meanwhile, Caine is dealing with his own demons.
When the Dalai Lama visits Chinatown, he is targeted by a strange contract killer with flames in his eyes. Peter and Caine find out that the assassin is an old friend.
Watch Now:AmazonA blizzard, on Christmas Eve, provides opportunities to a variety of criminals: a mugger disguised as Santa Claus, a repeat rapist, and an attempted prison break. The officers of the 101st Precinct must deal with them all.
Watch Now:AmazonTan's daughter has returned to Chinatown and is stalking young men in order to flush out her father's killer, Kwai Chang Caine. It is up to Peter and Caine to stop her.