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The Best Episodes of Kung Fu

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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.

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  1. Background image for The Ancient Warrior
    8.5/10(214 votes)

    #1 - The Ancient Warrior

    S1:E15

    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.

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    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Dark Angel
    8.4/10(311 votes)

    #2 - Dark Angel

    S1:E2

    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.

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    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Barbary House
    8.4/10(100 votes)

    #3 - Barbary House

    S3:E18

    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.

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    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Full Circle
    8.4/10(93 votes)

    #4 - Full Circle

    S3:E21

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Garments Of Rage
    8.3/10(96 votes)

    #5 - The Garments Of Rage

    S3:E9

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

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  6. Background image for The Vanishing Image
    8.2/10(115 votes)

    #6 - The Vanishing Image

    S3:E13

    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.

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  8. Background image for The Forbidden Kingdom
    8.2/10(81 votes)

    #7 - The Forbidden Kingdom

    S3:E15

    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.

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    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Brothers Caine
    8.2/10(121 votes)

    #8 - The Brothers Caine

    S3:E20

    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Last Raid
    8.2/10(84 votes)

    #9 - The Last Raid

    S3:E24

    Caine is visiting the Brown family when their son and his friend are taken hostage by a Confederate raider who believes the war isn't over ... and that he may kidnap children in the name of honor.

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    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Alethea
    8.1/10(203 votes)

    #10 - Alethea

    S1:E10

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

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  12. Background image for Blood of the Dragon (1)
    8.1/10(124 votes)

    #11 - Blood of the Dragon (1)

    S3:E1

    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.

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    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for A Small Beheading
    8.1/10(122 votes)

    #12 - A Small Beheading

    S3:E3

    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.

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  14. Background image for My Brother, My Executioner
    8.1/10(103 votes)

    #13 - My Brother, My Executioner

    S3:E6

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

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    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Cry Of The Night Beast
    8.1/10(102 votes)

    #14 - Cry Of The Night Beast

    S3:E7

    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.

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    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Battle Hymn
    8.1/10(82 votes)

    #15 - Battle Hymn

    S3:E17

    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.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Blood of the Dragon (2)
    8.0/10(104 votes)

    #16 - Blood of the Dragon (2)

    S3:E2

    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.

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    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for The Predators
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #17 - The Predators

    S3:E5

    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for King of the Mountain
    7.9/10(300 votes)

    #18 - King of the Mountain

    S1:E1

    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.

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    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Blood Brother
    7.9/10(231 votes)

    #19 - Blood Brother

    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Soul Is The Warrior
    7.9/10(208 votes)

    #20 - The Soul Is The Warrior

    S1:E6

    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.

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  22. Background image for Sun And Cloud Shadow
    7.9/10(197 votes)

    #21 - Sun And Cloud Shadow

    S1:E8

    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.

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    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Stone
    7.9/10(152 votes)

    #22 - The Stone

    S1:E13

    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,

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    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for A Lamb To The Slaughter
    7.9/10(84 votes)

    #23 - A Lamb To The Slaughter

    S3:E14

    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.

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  25. Background image for Flight To Orion
    7.9/10(90 votes)

    #24 - Flight To Orion

    S3:E19

    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.

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  26. Background image for Ambush
    7.9/10(80 votes)

    #25 - Ambush

    S3:E23

    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Ancient Warrior" is the best rated episode of "Kung Fu". It scored 8.5/10 based on 214 votes. Directed by Robert Butler and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/3/1973. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dark Angel".