7.1/10111 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10103 votesLoading...#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
7.2/1097 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1094 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.5/10128 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.5/1094 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.5/10102 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.6/10155 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10127 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1085 votesLoading...#10 - 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
7.7/10164 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.7/10135 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10132 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.7/10125 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.7/10106 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.8/10209 votesLoading...#16 - 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 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.8/10151 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.8/10112 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.8/10133 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.8/10112 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.9/10287 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.9/10218 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.9/10197 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.9/10144 votesLoading...#25 - 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 Worst Episodes of Kung Fu
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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
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Cenotaph (1)" is the worst rated episode of "Kung Fu". It scored 7.1/10 based on 111 votes. Directed by Richard Lang and written by William Kelley, it aired on 4/4/1974. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Cenotaph (2)".