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The Best Episodes of Kung Fu

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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. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 15 - The Way Of Violence Has No Mind
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Way Of Violence Has No Mind

    S2:E15

    Caine confronts a gang of Chinese immigrants that have taken to violence.

    Director:Lee Philips
    Writer:David Michael Korn

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  2. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 1 - King of the Mountain
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:Herman Miller

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  3. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 2 - Dark Angel
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:Herman Miller

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  4. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 3 - Blood Brother
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:Herman Miller

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  5. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 4 - An Eye For An Eye
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #5 - An Eye For An Eye

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:John Furia

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  6. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 5 - The Tide
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - The Tide

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Walter Doniger
    Writer:A. Martin Zweiback

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  7. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 6 - The Soul Is The Warrior
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:Ron Bishop

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  8. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 7 - Nine Lives
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Nine Lives

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Herb Meadow

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  9. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 8 - Sun And Cloud Shadow
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Halsted Welles

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  10. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 9 - Chains
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - Chains

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  11. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 10 - Alethea
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:John Badham
    Writer:William Kelley

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  12. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 11 - The Praying Mantis Kills
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - The Praying Mantis Kills

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  13. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 12 - Superstition
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Superstition

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 13 - The Stone
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - 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,

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:A. Martin Zweiback

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  15. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 14 - The Third Man
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - The Third Man

    S1:E14

    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.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Robert Lewin

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  16. Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 15 - The Ancient Warrior
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:A. Martin Zweiback

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  17. Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 1 - The Well
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - The Well

    S2:E1

    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:Kittridge Barton

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  18. Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 2 - The Assassin
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - The Assassin

    S2:E2

    Hatfields and McCoys, with an Asian spin on things. Two familes with a longtime fued keep two potential lovers apart. One of the families has hired a ninja assassin, and Caine witnesses his actions. Caine is accused of assisting the ninja, and heals a man dying from a poisoned shuriken strike.

    Director:Richard Lang
    Writers:Spooner Glass, Daniel B. Ullman

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  19. Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 3 - The Chalice
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - The Chalice

    S2:E3

    Caught between a Gatling Gun and a fort full of murderous killers, Caine must rescue a stolen chalice in order to make restitution for a dead Franciscan priest.

    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:William Kelley

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  20. Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 4 - The Brujo
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - The Brujo

    S2:E4

    While wandering in Mexico, Caine comes across an old woman and a young boy. The woman is trapped under a cart and asks Caine to take care of the boy. He takes him to a small Mexican village which believes it is under the spell of a warlock.

    Director:Richard Lang
    Writers:Kathryn Terry, Michael S. Michaelian

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  21. Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 5 - The Squaw Man
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - The Squaw Man

    S2:E5

    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:Arthur Dales

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  22. Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 6 - The Spirit Helper
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - The Spirit Helper

    S2:E6

    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.

    Director:Walter Doniger
    Writer:John T. Dugan

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  23. Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 7 - The Tong
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - The Tong

    S2:E7

    Caine help a young Chinese orphan boy gain his freedom from a brutal master. The master goes to the Tong for help against Caine.

    Director:Robert Totten
    Writer:Robert Schlitt

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  24. Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 8 - The Soldier
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - The Soldier

    S2:E8

    Caine is accused of taking part in a bandit ambush, and is taken prisoner by the U.S. Calvary. He meets a soldier that is a conscientious objector that helps him clear his name.

    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 9 - The Salamander
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - The Salamander

    S2:E9

    Caine comes to a bankrupt mining town and meets a mentally handicapped boy, who is the target of a claim jumper.

    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:Del Reisman

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Way Of Violence Has No Mind" is the best rated episode of "Kung Fu". It scored 7/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Lee Philips and written by David Michael Korn, it aired on 1/24/1974. This episode scored 7.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "King of the Mountain".