6.8/1038 votes#1 - My Brother's Keeper
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1989
Daniel befriends a young boy and pases on Miyagi's teaching in order to help him restore his position as Chief of the tribe.
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7.2/1029 votes#2 - The Greatest Victory
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1989
Miyagi, Daniel, and Taki travel to Hong Kong and help the village fight off the Dragon and his evil henchmen.
Director: N/A
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7.3/1029 votes#3 - The Homecoming
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1989
The search for the shrine brings Daniel back to his old neighborhood and his first girlfriend.
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7.4/1030 votes#4 - The Tomorrow Man
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/27/1989
Miyagi, Daniel, and Taki go to Paris, where they follow a man named Mr. Whiskers, who is trying to buy the shrine. When they lose the shrine, Daniel goes to a fortune teller for help.
Director: N/A
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7.3/1032 votes#5 - All the World His Stage
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/27/1989
While in London, United Kingdom, the trio get hired on a movie set about King Arthur, where Miyagi finds the power of the shrine has been drained into a prop sword, which is used by the film's leading man who then cannot separate reality from fantasy and thinks Taki is his actual bride, and Daniel is threatening him.
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7.2/1028 votes#6 - The Paper Hero
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/1989
After a padre in Mexico hides the shrine in a Mayan temple, it's up to Mr. Miyagi to keep it out of the hands of Madero, and evil bandit.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1028 votes#7 - Over the Rainbow
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1989
Miyagi and company follow the magic rainbow to a mountain paradise in the Himalayas where the stone has turned a well into the Fountain of Youth.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1028 votes#8 - The Return of the Shrine
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/1989
Taki returns the shrine to her temple, but a thousand year feud between her family and the Ishida's makes them lose the shrine once again.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1027 votes#9 - Walkabout
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/1989
Mr. Miyagi and friends follow the shrine to Australia where a tribe of Aborigines believe it should be offered to the god of the volcano.
Director: N/A
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7.1/1027 votes#10 - East Meets West
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1989
Miyagi, Daniel and Taki travel to the Soviet Union where Prof. Kirov is studying its magical powers.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1027 votes#11 - The Hunt
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1989
Mr. Miyagi has traced the shrine down to the coast of Norway where a whale has swallowed it and is attacking illegal whaling ships.
Director: N/A
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6.7/1026 votes#12 - The Gray Ghosts
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1989
The search for the shrine brings Miyagi and friends to San Francisco where they join a group of senior citizens in a car rally, hoping it will ultimately lead them to the shrine.
Director: N/A
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6.6/1028 votes#13 - A Little World of His Own
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/27/1989
Miyagi and friends discover that the shrine has fallen into the hands of a lonely boy who is using it to make his own little world.
Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of The Karate Kid Season 1
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Daniel and his mentor Mr. Miyagi travel the world with their Okinawan friend Taki Tamurai in search of an ancient Japanese talisman stolen from an...
Genres:AnimationAction & Adventure
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"My Brother's Keeper" is the best rated episode of "The Karate Kid" season 1. It scored 6.8/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/23/1989. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Greatest Victory".