The BEST episodes of Kung Fu season 3

Every episode of Kung Fu season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kung Fu season 3!

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
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The Devil's Champion
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7.48
56 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Robert Lewis
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Besieged (1): Death on Cold Mountain
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7.40
47 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: David Carradine
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My Brother, My Executioner
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7.39
49 votes

#3 - My Brother, My Executioner

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1974

Caine thinks he has found his brother, but he is really an imposter who is being pursued by a young gunfighter.

Directors: Jerry Thorpe
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This Valley of Terror
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7.37
52 votes

#4 - This Valley of Terror

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1974

Caine helps a young woman who has visions of future events. They always come true and this terrifies her.

Directors: Harry Harris
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The Garments of Rage
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7.36
45 votes

#5 - The Garments of Rage

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1974

Caine goes to work for a railroad which is being sabotaged, and meets a Shaolin priest he knew before.

Directors: Marc Daniels
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The Vanishing Image
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7.32
44 votes

#6 - The Vanishing Image

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1974

Caine seeks out a photographer who took a picture of his brother, Danny, in hopes that he will be able to help find him. He also encounters and befriends an Indian that attacks him and the photographer, and later wants to kill the photographer for taking a picture of him, for which he believes has stolen his soul.

Directors: Barry Crane
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A Small Beheading
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7.31
54 votes

#7 - A Small Beheading

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1974

Caine is offered a chance to return to China, after a sea captain delivers a pardon from the Emperor. The pardon, however, has one condition: Caine must lose a finger.

Directors: Richard Lang
Writer: Eugene Price
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Blood of the Dragon (2)
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7.27
55 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Richard Lang
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Barbary House
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7.27
52 votes

#9 - Barbary House

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/15/1975

Caine learns that Danny might be working at a gambling hall that features bare-knuckle boxing, and winds up protecting Danny's son, after Danny angers the hall's owner by hitting him and leaving his job, before Caine's arrival.

Directors: Marc Daniels
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The Predators
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7.24
49 votes

#10 - The Predators

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1974

Caine is accused of murder and must seek out a witness who is a member of a gang of Indian scalphunters, who doesn't want to help him. He must also deal with an Apache warrior who wants to kill the witness for his crimes against the Apache.

Directors: Harry Harris
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A Lamb to the Slaughter
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7.20
45 votes

#11 - A Lamb to the Slaughter

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1975

Caine meets the son of a man who died defending his father from muggers, and wants to repay him for his debt of honor by working for him. However, the man doesn't want work as payment but to learn how to fight, against a gang of bandits terrorizing the village he lives in.

Directors: Harry Harris
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Cry of the Night Beast
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7.18
50 votes

#12 - Cry of the Night Beast

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1974

Caine hears the cry of a child begging to be saved, but there is no child to be found. Only a very young buffalo calf and his mother. Caine protects him from a hunter who is determined to kill him for the hide.

Directors: Richard Lang
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Blood of the Dragon (1)
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7.15
59 votes

#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.

Directors: Richard Lang
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Flight to Orion
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7.13
46 votes

#14 - Flight to Orion

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1975

Caine goes searching for Danny, with Danny's son and a woman Danny Jr. has found out is his mother, with riders pursuing them, and is forced into an Indian death match along the way.

Directors: Marc Daniels
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The Forbidden Kingdom
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7.11
44 votes

#15 - The Forbidden Kingdom

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1975

This episode shows how Caine fled China, being pursued by a relentless Lieutenant in the Emperor's army, and how he faces possible betrayal by a woman who pledges to help him; but has secretly made an offer to turn him over to the Lieutenanf, in exchange for her brother's release from prison.

Directors: Gordon Hessler
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The Last Raid
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7.09
45 votes

#16 - The Last Raid

Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/26/1975

Caine goes to visit Caleb Brown and his family, last seen in The Well. Caleb's son, Daniel, is fishing with the local doctor's son, when both are kidnapped, by a vengeful ex-Confederate Sergeant. The Sergeant hopes to use them to lure the doctor to him to get his revenge, and Caine must save them.

Directors: Alex Beaton
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The Brothers Caine
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7.09
46 votes

#17 - The Brothers Caine

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/1/1975

Caine finds where his brother is hiding, but is unaware that Danny has been told there is a Chinese bounty hunter who wants to kill him.

Directors: Harry Harris
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Full Circle
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7.07
43 votes

#18 - Full Circle

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/8/1975

(Series' Finale) The Caine family's dysfunctional relationships get resolved. Kwai Chang and Danny are questing to find General Cantrell who has custody of Zeke Caine. After typical adversities everyone is reunited and Kwai Chang reveals where his future lies.

Directors: Marc Daniels
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Battle Hymn
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7.04
45 votes

#19 - Battle Hymn

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1975

Caine meets two traveling musicians, who are looking for a supposedly magical cave, all unaware that there are silver hunters looking to strike it rich with the cave.

Directors: Barry Crane
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Besieged (2): Cannon at the Gates
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7.02
43 votes

#20 - Besieged (2): Cannon at the Gates

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1974

Caine and the others try to defend the monastery, while the cannon the Warlord SIng wil attack them with is still enroute. In the meantime, he must contend with the fact that a woman who wants to become a Shaolin monk and rejected Sing's hand in marriage, has fallen in love with him.

Directors: David Carradine
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Ambush
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7.00
46 votes

#21 - Ambush

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/4/1975

Serenity Johnson, the blind preacher last seen in The Nature Of Evil, asks Caine to help escort him with a shipment to San Fransisco. What neither one of them knows is that stolen silver bars are hidden in the shipment, and people involved in the robbery are after them.

Directors: Alex Beaton
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One Step to Darkness
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6.98
44 votes

#22 - One Step to Darkness

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1975

Caine tries helping the depressed wife of an Army sergeant, with a drug addiction, and winds up fighting an inner demon of his own creation.

Directors: Marc Daniels
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The Thief of Chendo
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6.92
40 votes

#23 - The Thief of Chendo

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/29/1975

Young Caine and Master Po imagine what it will be like when Caine leaves the temple, and in their dreams Caine is sent to deliver a ring to a Grand Duke by Master Po. Upon arriving at the palace, he is informed that the Duke is dead, but an old man from the Duke's palace delivers him a message that he is still alive. He is being imprisoned by his own cousin, who has taken control of the palace. Caine also meets a thief who falls in love with the Duke's daughter, who is to be married off, and they work together to free both the Duke and his daughter.

Directors: Harry Harris
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The Demon God
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6.80
45 votes

#24 - The Demon God

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1974

After being stung by a scorpion, Caine remembers a time in China, where a member of the royal family poisoned him in order to discover what was on the journey to death, during which time Caine had visions of the American west.

Directors: David Carradine
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