The BEST episodes of Kung Fu season 1

Every episode of Kung Fu season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kung Fu season 1!

The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

Last Updated: 11/14/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
Dark Angel
star
7.85
200 votes

#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.

Directors: Jerry Thorpe
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Blood Brother
star
7.69
181 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Jerry Thorpe
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Chains
star
7.59
126 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Robert Butler
Writer: Gene L. Coon
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King of the Mountain
star
7.58
289 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Jerry Thorpe
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The Ancient Warrior
star
7.58
100 votes

#5 - 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.

Directors: Robert Butler
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Superstition
star
7.46
114 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Ed Waters
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Sun and Cloud Shadow
star
7.45
128 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Robert Butler
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The Praying Mantis Kills
star
7.39
112 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Robert Lewin
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Alethea
star
7.38
114 votes

#9 - Alethea

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/22/1973

Caine befriends a young girl, whose mistaken eyewitness testimony leads to the priest being tried for murder... and sentenced to death by hanging.

Directors: John Badham
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The Stone
star
7.29
117 votes

#10 - The Stone

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/12/1973

Caine encounters Isaac Montola, a freed slave from Brazil skilled in a fighting style he has never seen. When Caine intervenes in a fight to save Isaac's life, a precious stone is lost, setting off a chain of events involving a widow and her children, and the piano-playing groom-to-be,

Directors: Robert Butler
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The Soul Is the Warrior
star
7.29
117 votes

#11 - The Soul Is the Warrior

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/1973

Caine's quest to meet his half-brother Danny leads him to a ranch where his sibling once worked, and plunges the priest into a confrontation where he proves his mettle by walking trough a pit of rattlesnakes.

Directors: Richard Lang
Writer: Ron Bishop
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Nine Lives
star
7.26
121 votes

#12 - Nine Lives

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/1973

After the death of a mining camp's feline mascot, Caine and a miner embark on a trek to find a new cat -- a journey that ultimately has the pair trapped at the bottom of a rapidly filling well.

Directors: Allen Reisner
Writer: Herb Meadow
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The Tide
star
7.22
147 votes

#13 - The Tide

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/1973

A man with a price on his head can spark a lot of ambitions. A woman wants to capture Caine so she can use the $10,000 to free her imprisoned father, and a killer hiding behind a badge simply wants to get rich.

Directors: Walter Doniger
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An Eye for an Eye
star
7.21
196 votes

#14 - An Eye for an Eye

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/1973

A family seeks vengeance-not justice-against the soldier who raped their daughter. Setting in motion a cycle of violence that Caine may be powerless to stop.

Directors: Jerry Thorpe
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The Third Man
star
7.15
108 votes

#15 - The Third Man

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/26/1973

A gambler on a hot streak entrusts his winnings to Caine. But the money is stolen, the gambler is killed, and Caine seeks answers to the mysteries surrounding both events.

Directors: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Robert Lewin
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