8.1/10152 votes#1 - 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
7.9/10110 votes#2 - The Assassin
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1973
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
Writer: N/A
7.9/10131 votes#3 - The Chalice
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1973
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
7.5/10126 votes#4 - The Brujo
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1973
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
Writer: N/A
8.2/10113 votes#5 - 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
7.8/10128 votes#6 - The Spirit Helper
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1973
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: N/A
8.0/10130 votes#7 - The Tong
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1973
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
7.9/10109 votes#8 - The Soldier
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/1973
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: N/A
8.0/10103 votes#9 - The Salamander
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/1973
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: N/A
8.2/10117 votes#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
7.9/10112 votes#11 - The Elixir
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1973
Caine rescues the hawkers of the cure-all Theodora's Elixir from a hostile crowd, earning the come-hither gratitude of Theodora and the resentment of her jealous male partner.
Director: Walter Doniger
Writer: N/A
8.3/10116 votes#12 - 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
8.2/10104 votes#13 - 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
7.7/10124 votes#14 - A Dream Within A Dream
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1974
Caine, while walking through a dense fog, happens upon a man who is hanging and he himself is then shot. When he awakens, he finds himself in the company of a sculptor played by John Drew Barrymore (Drew's father). Caine is later accused of the murder of the hanging man and Barrymore's character comes to his defense. This is a really good episode and on the DVD David Carradine has an interesting commentary that accompanies this particular episode.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
8.0/10106 votes#15 - The Way Of Violence Has No Mind
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1974
Caine confronts a gang of Chinese immigrants that have taken to violence.
Director: Lee Philips
Writer: N/A
8.0/10109 votes#16 - In Uncertain Bondage
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1974
Caine recalls lessons learned as a youth when he and a Southern belle are trapped in a deep pit, held there by kidnappers.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
8.4/10106 votes#17 - 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
7.7/10123 votes#18 - Crossties
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1974
Caine is caught in the middle of a land-rights fight between farmers and railroad agents. He tries to convince the farmers to accept an offer of amnesty, and to keep the agents from using the offer as a fatal trap for the farmers.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: Robert Schlitt
8.2/1099 votes#19 - 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 votes#20 - 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 votes#21 - 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
7.1/10108 votes#22 - The Cenotaph (1)
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1974
Caine meets Logan McBurney, a Scotsman who has hijacked a gold-transporting stagecoach named Old Ironsides, to haul an enormous box that he claims is his dead Sioux wife's coffin. Along the way to the burial ground, which is on Sioux land, Caine remembers times in the monastery, unaware that several robbers are following closely, hoping to take Old Ironsides for themselves.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: William Kelley
7.1/10101 votes#23 - The Cenotaph (2)
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1974
Caine and Logan arrive at the Sioux burial ground, to bury what Caine believes is Logan's wife in a huge crate, and are confronted by angry Sioux warriors who feel they are trespassing. They must also deal with two robbers as well as the US Calvary. Caine recalls his own love story, that like Logan's wife, ended tragically.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: William Kelley
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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 2 Ratings Summary
"The Well" is the best rated episode of "Kung Fu" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 152 votes. Directed by Jerry Thorpe and written by N/A, it aired on 9/27/1973. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Assassin".