8.6/10199 votesLoading...#1 - 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.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: N/A
8.4/10294 votesLoading...#2 - 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.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: N/A
8.4/10106 votesLoading...#3 - 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.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: N/A
8.4/1095 votesLoading...#4 - 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.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
8.4/1087 votesLoading...#5 - Full Circle
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/8/1975
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10116 votesLoading...#6 - 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.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
8.3/1088 votesLoading...#7 - 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.
Director: David Carradine, Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
8.3/10114 votesLoading...#8 - 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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
8.2/10113 votesLoading...#9 - The Squaw Man
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.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: N/A
8.2/10117 votesLoading...#10 - 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.
Director: Robert Totten
Writer: N/A
8.2/10104 votesLoading...#11 - 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.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: N/A
8.2/1099 votesLoading...#12 - 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.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: N/A
8.2/10102 votesLoading...#13 - 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.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
8.2/10108 votesLoading...#14 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10117 votesLoading...#15 - 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.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
8.2/10112 votesLoading...#16 - 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.
Director: Richard Lang, Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
8.2/1091 votesLoading...#17 - 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.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
8.2/1095 votesLoading...#18 - 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.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
8.2/10109 votesLoading...#19 - 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.
Director: Barry Crane, Jerry Thorpe
Writer: N/A
8.1/10186 votesLoading...#20 - 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.
Director: John Badham
Writer: William Kelley
8.1/10152 votesLoading...#21 - The Well
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1973
After drinking bad water during a drought, Caine recovers at the farm of an ex-slave who has a working well, but one who is so angry he is not willing to share with his thirsty neighbors.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: N/A
8.1/1096 votesLoading...#22 - 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.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
8.1/1089 votesLoading...#23 - 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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
8.1/1074 votesLoading...#24 - 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.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
8.1/1081 votesLoading...#25 - 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.
Director: Harry Harris, Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Kung Fu
Every episode of Kung Fu ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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.
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaWesternSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"The Ancient Warrior" is the best rated episode of "Kung Fu". It scored 8.6/10 based on 199 votes. Directed by Robert Butler and written by N/A, it aired on 5/3/1973. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dark Angel".