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The Best Episodes of Kung Fu Season 3

Every episode of Kung Fu Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Kung Fu Season 3!

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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
    Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 1 - Blood of the Dragon (1)
    8.1/10(128 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:John T. Dugan

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  2. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 2 - Blood of the Dragon (2)
    8.0/10(108 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:John T. Dugan

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  3. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 3 - A Small Beheading
    8.0/10(130 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:Eugene Price

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  4. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 4 - This Valley of Terror
    7.7/10(115 votes)

    #4 - This Valley of Terror

    S3:E4

    Caine helps a young woman who has visions of future events. They always come true and this terrifies her.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 5 - The Predators
    8.0/10(102 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 6 - My Brother, My Executioner
    8.1/10(107 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:John T. Dugan

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  7. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 7 - Cry Of The Night Beast
    8.0/10(108 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Richard Lang
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 8 - The Devil's Champion
    7.3/10(105 votes)

    #8 - The Devil's Champion

    S3:E8

    We return to Caine's past in China. Caine witnesses a man defeat six others in the village. The man instructs Caine to deliver a challenge. He demands a fight to the death with Master Kan or he will kill a villager every day until he gets it.

    Director:Robert Michael Lewis
    Writers:Katharyn Powers, Michael Michaelian

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  9. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 9 - The Garments Of Rage
    8.2/10(100 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Theodore Apstein

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  10. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 10 - Besieged (1): Death On Cold Mountain
    7.6/10(111 votes)

    #10 - Besieged (1): Death On Cold Mountain

    S3:E10

    A reclusive hermit, Tamo, arrives at the Honan monastery to inform them that the Fukien monastery was attacked and destroyed by a warlord with his cannon, and that he has survivors seeking refuge there. One of the survivors is a woman who wants to become a Shaolin monk. She later reveals the warlord wanted her to be his wife, and she fled. Now the warlord is preparing to attack the monastery and having his cannon brought there.

    Director:David Carradine
    Writer:William Kelley

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  11. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 11 - Besieged (2): Cannon At The Gates
    7.4/10(103 votes)

    #11 - Besieged (2): Cannon At The Gates

    S3:E11

    Caine and the others try to defend the monastery, while the cannon the Warlord SIng will attack them with is still enroute. In the meantime, he must contend with the fact that a woman who wants to become a Shaolin monk and rejected Sing's hand in marriage, has fallen in love with him.

    Director:David Carradine
    Writers:William Kelley, David Michael Korn

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  12. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 12 - The Demon God
    7.1/10(110 votes)

    #12 - The Demon God

    S3:E12

    After being stung by a scorpion, Caine remembers a time in China, where a member of the royal family poisoned him in order to discover what was on the journey to death, during which time Caine had visions of the American west.

    Director:David Carradine
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 13 - The Vanishing Image
    8.2/10(120 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Gustave Field

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  14. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 14 - A Lamb To The Slaughter
    8.0/10(90 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 15 - The Forbidden Kingdom
    8.2/10(89 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Gordon Hessler
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 16 - One Step To Darkness
    7.5/10(97 votes)

    #16 - One Step To Darkness

    S3:E16

    Caine tries helping the depressed wife of an Army sergeant, with a drug addiction, and winds up fighting an inner demon of his own creation.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 17 - Battle Hymn
    7.9/10(89 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 18 - Barbary House
    8.3/10(106 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writers:Stephen Karpf, Elinor Karpf

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  19. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 19 - Flight To Orion
    7.9/10(96 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writers:Stephen Karpf, Elinor Karpf

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  20. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 20 - The Brothers Caine
    8.2/10(127 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writers:Stephen Karpf, Elinor Karpf

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  21. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 21 - Full Circle
    8.4/10(99 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writers:Stephen Karpf, Elinor Karpf

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  22. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 22 - The Thief Of Chendo
    7.8/10(84 votes)

    #22 - The Thief Of Chendo

    S3:E22

    Young Caine and Master Po imagine what it will be like when Caine leaves the temple, and in their dreams Caine is sent to deliver a ring to a Grand Duke by Master Po. Upon arriving at the palace, he is informed that the Duke is dead, but an old man from the Duke's palace delivers him a message that he is still alive. He is being imprisoned by his own cousin, who has taken control of the palace. Caine also meets a thief who falls in love with the Duke's daughter, who is to be married off, and they work together to free both the Duke and his daughter.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 23 - Ambush
    7.8/10(85 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Gordon Hessler
    Writer:Norman Katkov

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  24. Kung Fu Season 3 Episode 24 - The Last Raid
    8.1/10(91 votes)

    #24 - 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.

    Director:Alex Beaton
    Writer:John T. Dugan

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Blood of the Dragon (1)" is the best rated episode of "Kung Fu" season 3. It scored 8.1/10 based on 128 votes. Directed by Richard Lang and written by John T. Dugan, it aired on 9/14/1974. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Blood of the Dragon (2)".