Kung Fu: The Complete First Season
Warner Bros. Television / Warner Home Video (1972)
TV Series  /  Martial Arts, Television, Western
In Collection
#861
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Seen ItNo
085392425020
IMDB   7.8
780 mins United States / English
DVD  Region 1   Unrated
David Carradine Kwai Chang Caine (45 episodes, 1972-1975)
Radames Pera Young Kwai Chang Caine / ... (36 episodes, 1972-1975)
Keye Luke Master Po (34 episodes, 1972-1975)
Philip Ahn Master Kan / ... (30 episodes, 1972-1975)
James Hong Chun Yen / ... (8 episodes, 1973-1975)
Richard Loo Master Sun / ... (7 episodes, 1972-1974)
James Weatherill Deputy / ... (7 episodes, 1972-1975)
Victor Sen Yung Tamo / ... (6 episodes, 1973-1974)
Tad Horino Chemist / ... (6 episodes, 1973-1975)
Tim McIntire Danny Caine / ... (5 episodes, 1973-1975)
Yuki Shimoda Shun Low / ... (5 episodes, 1973-1974)
John Fujioka Cook / ... (5 episodes, 1973-1975)
Leslie Nielsen Vincent Corbino (4 episodes, 1975)
John Blyth Barrymore Zeke Caine (4 episodes, 1975)
Clyde Kusatsu Han Su Lok & Lama Kushog / ... (4 episodes, 1973-1975)
David Carradine Kwai Chang Caine
Radames Pera Young Caine
Keye Luke Master Po
Philip Ahn Master Kan
Leslie Nielsen
Keith Carradine
John Blyth Barrymore
John Leoning
Barry Sullivan Dillon
Albert Salmi Raif
Wayne Maunder McKay
Benson Fong Han Fei
Harrison Ford Harrison
Director
Harry Harris
Alex Beaton
Robert Butler
Producer Alex Beaton
Jerry Thorpe
Writer Ed Spielman
Herman Miller

He is a man of peace in a violent land. He is Kwai Chang Caine, schooled in the spirit-mind-body ways of the Shaolin priesthood by the blind, avuncular Master Po and the stern yet loving master Kan. Caine speaks softly but hits hard. He lives humbly yet knows great contentment. He is the Old West's most unusual hero. But hero is not a word Caine would use. He would simply say, "I am a man."
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    14/10/1972  1.  King of the Mountain
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:  Herman Miller 
Guest starring:  John Saxon, Lara Parker, Brandon Cruz,  Mills Watson, Ken Lynch, Gary McLarty, Paul Harper, Mark Allen
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    11/11/1972  2.  Dark Angel
Caine travels to Lordsville looking for his grandfather. On his way he helps a man attacked by indians and the man gives him a map to a goldmine. Caine gives the map to an old preacher who helped him.
Director:  Jerry Thorpe  Writer:  Herman Miller 
Guest starring:  Robert Carradine, John Carradine, Dean Jagger, Adrienne Marden, Paul Harper, James Griffith, Charles Bail, Robert Herron, Bill McLean, Jim Weatherill, Tim Haldeman
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    18/01/1973  3.  Blood Brother
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:  Herman Miller 
Guest starring:  John AndersonBenson FongRobert UrichScott HylandsClu Gulager, Kathleen Lloyd,  Kermit Murdock, Frank Michael Liu, Kan Yuen, Frank Orsatti, Jack Verbois, Don Eiber, Robert Emhardt, Paul Bryar, Beulah Quo
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    25/01/1973  4.  An Eye for an Eye
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:  John Furia Jr. 
Guest starring:  Janette Lane Bradbury, Harry Townes, Tim McIntire, Ross Elliott, Robert J. Wilke, L.Q. Jones, Parley Baer,  Judson Pratt, Clay Tanner, Chief John War Eagle, Joe Hoover
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    01/02/1973  5.  The Tide
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  Writer:  A. Martin Sweiback 
Guest starring:  Andrew Duggan, Tina Chen, Brian Tochi, Mako Iwamtsu, Kenneth O'Brien, Robert Donner, Rosalind Chao, Richard Dana Lee, Jr., Kenny Endoso,  James Hong, Mako
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    08/02/1973  6.  The Soul Is The Warrior
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  Writer:  Ron Bishop 
Guest starring:  Pat Hingle, Shelly Novack, John Doucette, Robert Foulk, Les Lannon, Robin Raymond, E.A. Sirianni, Norman Leavitt, John Cliff, Max Power
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    15/02/1973  7.  Nine Lives
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:  Allen Reisner  Writer:  Herb Meadow 
Guest starring:  Albert Salmi, Geraldine Brooks,  Merlin OlsenDana Elcar, Ross Hagen, Michael Cameron,  Royal Dano
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    22/02/1973  8.  Sun And Cloud Shadow
Caine brokers a settlement between a landowner and Chinese miners, but the landowner adds an unacceptable condition to the deal. Meanwhile, a karate master intends to capture Caine.
Director:  Robert Butler  Writer:  Halsted Welles 
Guest starring:  Clyde KusatsuMorgan WoodwardRichard Hatch, Soon-Teck Oh, Ronald Feinberg, Aimee Eccles, Dennis Lee Smith, John Mamo, Yuki Shimada, Bill M. Ryusaki, Tad Horino, Homer Herman Garrett, Erik Cord, Bob Bralver
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    08/03/1973  9.  Chains
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:  Gene L. Coon 
Guest starring:  Michael Green, Warren Vanders,  Geoffrey Lewis, Larry Bishop, Ben Frank, Bob Bralver, Norman Stevens
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    15/03/1973  10.  Alethea
Caine befriends a young girl, whose mistaken eyewitness testimony leads to the priest being tried for murder... and sentenced to death by hanging.
Director:  John Badham  Writer:  William Kelley 
Guest starring:  Jodie Foster, Ken Tobey, Byron Mabe, Williams Mims, Frank Wilcox, Charles Tyner, Khigh Dheigh, Lee J. Lampert, R. L. Armstrong, Regis Cordic, Dale Ishimoto, William Vaughan, Alex Henteloff, Bob Bralver
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    22/03/1973  11.  The Praying Mantis Kills
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:  Charles Dubin  Writer:  Robert Lewin 
Guest starring:  Norman Alden, Wendell Burton,  William Schallert, Don Knight, Jason Wingreen, Murray MacLeod, Bill Fletcher,  Victor Sen Yung, Dennis Redfield, Karen Morley, Jim Weatherill, Julie Licker, Richard Collier
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    05/04/1973  12.  Superstition
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:  Charles Dubin  Writer:  Ed Waters 
Guest starring:  Ford Rainey, Fred Sadoff1, Roy Jensson,  Woodrow Parfrey, Don Dubbins, Mike Mazurki, Larry J. Blake
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    12/04/1973  13.  The Stone
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:  A. Martin Zweiback 
Guest starring:  Gregory Sierra, Sean Marshall,  Moses Gunn, Kelly Jean Peters, Kiel Martin,  Ike EisenmannWilliam Lucking, Brian Andrews, Chuck Hayward
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    26/04/1973  14.  The Third Man
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:  Charles Dubin  Writer:  Robert Lewin 
Guest starring:  Sheree North,  Robert F. Hoy, John Alderson, Ed Nelson, Barbara Stuart, Fred Beir, Vic Perrin, Sig Frohlich, Steve Chambers
    Seen it: Yes   50 mins    03/05/1973  15.  The Ancient Warrior
Ancient Warrior, an aged Indian accompanied by Caine, seeks burial in his sacred, ancestral land. But the burial site is located dead center in a violent, Indian-hating town called Purgatory.
Director:  Robert Butler  Writer:  A. Martin Zwieback 
Guest starring:  Will Geer,  Chief Dan George, Kenneth O'Brien,  Denver PyleVictor FrenchG.D. Spradlin, Bill Katt, Clay Turner, Bucklin Berry, Richard Young,  Gary Busey
Edition Details
Series Kung Fu
Release Date 16/03/2004
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio 1.78:1
Subtitles English; Spanish; French
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 1.0
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 3

Features
Disc 01 From Grasshopper to Caine, Creating Kung FuThe Tao of Caine, Production and Beyond Chronicle the Making of This Unique Series with Cast and Creators