The WORST episodes of Kung Fu
Every episode of Kung Fu ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - The Elixir
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1973
A beautiful medicine hawker, Theodora, is so concerned with herself that she totally ignores what her hunchback brother needs or wants.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Crossties
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1974
Caine is caught in the middle of a land-rights fight between farmers and railroad agents. He tries to convince the farmers to accept an offer of amnesty, and to keep the agents from using the offer as a fatal trap for the farmers.
#7 - The Nature of Evil
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1974
Caine and Serenity Johnson, the blind preacher last seen in Dark Angel, look for a killer that is stalking Serenity's town of Nineveh.
#8 - 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.
#9 - The Salamander
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/1973
Caine comes to a bankrupt mining town and meets a mentally handicapped boy, who is the target of a claim jumper.
#10 - 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.
#11 - A Dream Within a Dream
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1974
Caine, while walking through a dense fog, happens upon a man who is hanging and he himself is then shot. When he awakens, he finds himself in the company of a sculptor played by John Drew Barrymore (Drew's father). Caine is later accused of the murder of the hanging man and Barrymore's character comes to his defense. This is a really good episode and on the DVD David Carradine has an interesting commentary that accompanies this particular episode.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - The Squawman
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1973
Caine helps a farmer who is married to an Indian woman. The townpeople have no respect for the farmer until he kills an outlaw's son and then they treat him as a hero.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - The Gunman
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1974
A gunslinger defends Caine and the widow who owns the ranch where Caine is working. Meanwhile, Caine is still pursued by a detachment of volunteers and an overzealous bounty hunter.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Arrogant Dragon
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1974
Wu Chang has angered the Tong Sect, and is ordered to commit suicide or be executed by them. Caine tries to help him fake his death and escape from the Tongs.
#25 - 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.