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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

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "Kung Fu" is "The Cenotaph (1)", rated 7/10 from 106 user votes. It was directed by Richard Lang and written by William Kelley. "The Cenotaph (1)" aired on 4/4/1974 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Cenotaph (2)".

  • The Cenotaph (1)
    7.0/10 106 votes

    #1 - 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

  • The Cenotaph (2)
    7.1/10 100 votes

    #2 - 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

  • The Demon God
    7.2/10 94 votes

    #3 - The Demon God

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1974

    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, Marc Daniels

    Writer: N/A

  • The Devil's Champion
    7.4/10 90 votes

    #4 - The Devil's Champion

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1974

    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: David Carradine

    Writer: N/A

  • Besieged (2): Cannon At The Gates
    7.4/10 91 votes

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

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1974

    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: Barry Crane, David Carradine

    Writer: N/A

  • Besieged (1): Death On Cold Mountain
    7.5/10 99 votes

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

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1974

    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: George Clayton Johnson

  • The Brujo
    7.6/10 122 votes

    #7 - 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

  • Chains
    7.7/10 148 votes

    #8 - 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

  • A Dream Within A Dream
    7.7/10 122 votes

    #9 - 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

  • Crossties
    7.7/10 122 votes

    #10 - 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

  • This Valley of Terror
    7.7/10 102 votes

    #11 - This Valley of Terror

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1974

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

    Director: Richard Lang

    Writer: N/A

  • One Step To Darkness
    7.7/10 83 votes

    #12 - One Step To Darkness

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1975

    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: Gordon Hessler, Marc Daniels

    Writer: N/A

  • An Eye For An Eye
    7.8/10 201 votes

    #13 - 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

  • The Tide
    7.8/10 178 votes

    #14 - 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

  • Nine Lives
    7.8/10 156 votes

    #15 - 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

  • Superstition
    7.8/10 127 votes

    #16 - 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

  • The Spirit Helper
    7.8/10 126 votes

    #17 - 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

  • King Of The Mountain
    7.9/10 279 votes

    #18 - 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

  • Blood Brother
    7.9/10 209 votes

    #19 - 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

  • The Praying Mantis Kills
    7.9/10 143 votes

    #20 - 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

  • The Stone
    7.9/10 136 votes

    #21 - 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

  • The Third Man
    7.9/10 131 votes

    #22 - 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

  • The Assassin
    7.9/10 106 votes

    #23 - 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

  • The Chalice
    7.9/10 127 votes

    #24 - 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

  • The Soldier
    7.9/10 108 votes

    #25 - 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