The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
The best episode of "Kung Fu" season 1 is "King Of The Mountain", rated 7.9/10 from 279 user votes. It was directed by Jerry Thorpe and written by N/A. "King Of The Mountain" aired on 10/14/1972 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Dark Angel".
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: N/A
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
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: N/A
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: N/A
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, Allen Reisner
Writer: N/A
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, Walter Doniger
Writer: N/A
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: Richard Lang, Allen Reisner
Writer: N/A
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: N/A
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
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
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: Robert Butler
Writer: Gene L. Coon
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
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: N/A
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: N/A
Writer: Robert Lewin
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