7.9/10287 votes#1 - King Of The Mountain
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/1972
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
8.4/10296 votes#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
7.9/10218 votes#3 - Blood Brother
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/18/1973
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
7.8/10209 votes#4 - An Eye For An Eye
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/1973
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
7.8/10185 votes#5 - The Tide
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/1973
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
7.9/10197 votes#6 - The Soul Is The Warrior
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/1973
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
7.7/10164 votes#7 - Nine Lives
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/1973
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
8.0/10189 votes#8 - Sun And Cloud Shadow
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/1973
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
7.6/10155 votes#9 - Chains
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/15/1973
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
8.1/10190 votes#10 - 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
7.8/10151 votes#11 - The Praying Mantis Kills
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/29/1973
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
7.7/10135 votes#12 - Superstition
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/5/1973
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
7.9/10144 votes#13 - The Stone
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/12/1973
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
7.9/10138 votes#14 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Lewin
8.5/10203 votes#15 - 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
The Best Episodes of Kung Fu Season 1
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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
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"King Of The Mountain" is the best rated episode of "Kung Fu" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 287 votes. Directed by Jerry Thorpe and written by N/A, it aired on 10/14/1972. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Dark Angel".