Kung Fu (TV Series) / Episode List
This list of kung fu episodes contains all 63 episodes of the television series Kung Fu produced by ABC in 1972-1975 , sorted by their first broadcast.
season 1
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | First broadcast in German (1975–76: ZDF, 1994: Pro7, 2015: Pro7MAXX) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Kung Fu - Under the sign of the dragon | Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon | Jan. 22, 1972 | 27 Sep 1975 | Jerry Thorpe | Herman Miller |
| Caine is hired to build a railway line. In flashbacks, his training in the Shaolin monastery and the reason for his flight from China are described. The approximately 60-minute pilot was initially broadcast in the ABC series Movie of the Week . | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | Caine and the bounty hunters | King of the Mountain | Oct 14, 1972 | Oct. 4, 1975 | Jerry Thorpe | Herman Miller |
| Caine accompanies a 10-year-old boy, whose family was exterminated in an Indian attack, on the way to his aunt. When Caine gets there, he notices that a professional bounty hunter is after him. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | Caine and the bond of the past | Dark Angel | Nov 11, 1972 | 18 Mar 2005 (DVD), May 2, 2015 | Jerry Thorpe | Herman Miller |
| Caine comes to a town looking for a former classmate from the Shaolin Temple. During his research, he encounters a wall of silence and finds that his friend has been murdered. | |||||||
| 4th | 4th | Caine's blood brother | Blood Brother | Jan. 18, 1973 | Jan 10, 1976 | Jerry Thorpe | Herman Miller |
| Caine encounters a wall of silence as he investigates his missing Shaolin brother. | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | Caine and the blood revenge | An eye for an eye | Jan. 25, 1973 | 18 Mar 2005 (DVD), May 9, 2015 | Jerry Thorpe | John Furia, Jr. |
| Caine tries to break the vicious cycle of blood revenge when a young woman is raped by a soldier and the family seeks retribution. | |||||||
| 6th | 6th | Caine and the Chinese | The tide | Feb. 1, 1973 | Nov 29, 1975 | Jerry Thorpe | A. Martin Zweiback |
| A young Chinese woman wants to earn the bounty on Caine in order to buy her father out of prison. At the same time, a killer is after the reward who hides behind his sheriff's star. | |||||||
| 7th | 7th | Caine and the Snake Pit | The soul is the warrior | Feb 8, 1973 | Oct 25, 1975 | Richard Lang | Ron Bishop |
| Caine arrives at a ranch where his half-brother Danny previously worked. The owner of the ranch loses his hot-headed son to the honest sheriff and wants revenge. Only Caine can still avert a misfortune by proving his courage in the rattlesnake pit. | |||||||
| 8th | 8th | Caine and the dead cat | Nine lives | Feb 15, 1973 | Nov 8, 1975 | Robert Butler | Herb Meadow |
| Caine and an Irish miner search for a replacement for a fatal cat that was the gold rush camp's mascot. | |||||||
| 9 | 9 | Caine and the gold diggers | Sun and Cloud Shadow | Feb 22, 1973 | Jan. 24, 1976 | Robert Butler | Halsted Welles |
| The Chinese immigrants have found what they are looking for in the previously abandoned gold mine and have thus built a modest existence for themselves. But the gold find arouses covetousness among the settlers living nearby. Caine acts as a mediator between the conflicting parties. | |||||||
| 10 | 10 | Caine and the escape in chains | Chains | Feb 15, 1973 | 2nd July 1994 | Robert Butler | Gene L. Coon |
| Chained together on the run from the merciless sergeant, Caine and his innocent fellow prisoners are driven deeper and deeper into the Indian territory. | |||||||
| 11 | 11 | Caine and the girl with the mandolin | Alethea | 22 Mar 1973 | Jan. 3, 1976 | John Badham | William Kelley |
| Caine befriends a 10-year-old girl ( Jodie Foster ) whose testimony as an eyewitness in a murder trial condemns Caine to death by hanging a little later. | |||||||
| 12 | 12 | Caine and the bank robbers | A Praying Mantis Kills | 29 Mar 1973 | Nov 15, 1975 | Charles S. Dubin | Richard Lewin |
| Caine witnesses a bank robbery and makes himself the target of bank robbers by describing the perpetrators. | |||||||
| 13 | 13 | Caine and the slave camp | Superstition | Feb 22, 1973 | Dec. 27, 1975 | Dave Moessinger | Ed Waters |
| When Caine comes to a town and wants to buy supplies, he is accused of theft and sentenced to two years of forced labor in a mine in a bogus fast-track trial. | |||||||
| 14th | 14th | Caine and the giant diamond | The Stone | Apr 12, 1973 | Oct 18, 1975 | Robert Butler | A. Martin Zweiback |
| The man from Brazil narrowly escapes murder by a gang of thugs thanks to Caines' intervention. In the process he loses an extremely valuable diamond unnoticed. | |||||||
| 15th | 15th | Caine and the player | The Third Man | Apr 26, 1973 | Dec 6, 1975 | Charles S. Dubin | Robert Lewin |
| The notorious gambler gives Caine a large sum of money after a lucky streak so that he can bring it to his wife who is waiting at home. A short time later, the player is robbed and murdered. | |||||||
| 16 | 16 | Caine and the old chief | The Ancient Warrior | Apr 26, 1973 | Dec 13, 1975 | Robert Butler | A. Martin Zweiback |
| The old chief Thundercloud has one last wish: to be buried in the valley of his birth. But in the once pristine valley there is now a flourishing city whose residents have a deep-seated hatred of Indians. | |||||||
season 2
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | First broadcast in German (1975–76: ZDF, 1994: Pro7, 1995: Kabel 1, 2015: Pro7MAXX) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17th | 1 | Caine and the negroes | The Well | 29 Sep 1973 | May 29, 1976 | Jerry Thorpe | Kittridge Barton |
| 18th | 2 | Caine and the mask killers | The assassin | Oct. 4, 1973 | Jan. 31, 1976 | Richard Lang | Spooner Glass and Dan Ullman |
| 19th | 3 | Caine and the stolen chalice | The chalice | Oct 11, 1973 | May 20, 2005 (DVD), Jun. 27, 2015 | Jerry Thorpe | William Kelley |
| 20th | 4th | Caine and the sorcerer's curse | The Brujo | Oct 25, 1973 | Jul 9, 1994 | Richard Lang | Kathryn Terry & Michael S. Michaelian |
| 21st | 5 | Caine and the Squaw | The Squawman | Nov 1, 1973 | Feb. 14, 1976 | John Llewellyn Moxey | Arthur Dales |
| 22nd | 6th | Caine and the great spirit helper | The Spirit Helper | Nov 8, 1973 | Aug 6, 1995 | Walter Doniger | John T. Dugan |
| 23 | 7th | Caine and the Bund of Tong | The Tong | Nov 15, 1973 | Aug 12, 1995 | Robert Totten | Robert Schlitt |
| 24 | 8th | Caine and the soldiers | The Soldier | Nov 29, 1973 | Aug 13, 1995 | Richard Lang | Ed Waters |
| 25th | 9 | Caine and the fire salamander | The salamander | Dec 6, 1973 | Aug 19, 1995 | Richard Lang | Del Reisman |
| 26th | 10 | Caine and the sectarians | The Hoots | Dec 13, 1973 | May 22, 1976 | Robert Totten | Lionel E. Siegel |
| 27 | 11 | Caine and the miracle cure | The Elixir | Dec 20, 1973 | Feb. 7, 1976 | Walter Doniger | A. Martin Zweiback |
| 28 | 12 | Caine and the outlaw | The Gunman | Jan. 3, 1974 | Feb. 28, 1976 | Richard Lang | Robert Lewin |
| 29 | 13 | Caine and the Texas Ranger | Empty Pages of a Dead Book | Jan. 10, 1974 | 6th Mar 1976 | John Llewellyn Moxey | Charles A. McDaniel |
| 30th | 14th | Caine and the man in the tree | A dream within a dream | Jan. 17, 1974 | 3rd Sep 1995 | Richard Lang | John T. Dugan |
| 31 | 15th | Caine and the Gold Raiders | The Way of Violence Has No Mind | Jan. 24, 1974 | 13 Mar 1976 | Lee Philips | David Michael Korn |
| 32 | 16 | Caine and the kidnappers | In Uncertain Bondage | Feb. 7, 1974 | 27 Mar 1976 | Richard Lang | Abe Polsky and Ed Waters |
| 33 | 17th | Caine and the sign of the owl | Night of the Owls, Day of the Doves | Feb. 14, 1974 | 16 Sep 1995 | Richard Lang | Ed Waters |
| 34 | 18th | Caine in the crossfire | Crossties | Feb. 21, 1974 | Apr 3, 1976 | Richard Lang | Robert Schmitt |
| 35 | 19th | Caine and the outcast | The Passion of Chen Yi | Feb. 28, 1974 | Apr 17, 1976 | John Llewellyn Moxey | John T. Dugan |
| 36 | 20th | Caine and the seemingly dead | Arrogant Dragon | 14 Mar 1974 | Apr 24, 1976 | Richard Lang | Kathryn & Michael Michaelian |
| 37 | 21st | Caine and the nature of evil | The Nature of Evil | 21 Mar 1974 | Sep 30 1995 | Robert Michael Lewis | Gerald Sanford |
| 38 | 22nd | Caine and the box with the dead 1 | The Cenotaph Part 1 | Apr. 4, 1974 | Oct. 1, 1995 | Richard Lang | William Kelley |
| 39 | 23 | Caine and the box with the dead 2 | The Cenotaph Part 2 | Apr 11, 1974 | Oct 7, 1995 | Richard Lang | William Kelley |
season 3
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | First broadcast in German (1976: ZDF, 1995–96: Kabel1) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 1 | Caine and the strange animal | Cry of the Night Beast | Sep 14 1974 | Oct 29, 1995 | Richard Lang | Abe Polsky & Ed Waters |
| 41 | 2 | Caine's brother | My Brother, My Executioner | Oct 12, 1974 | Jun 26, 1976 | Jerry Thorpe | John T. Dugan |
| 42 | 3 | Caine and the Valley of Terror | This Valley of Terror | 28 Sep 1974 | Oct 21, 1995 | Harry Harris | Katharyn & Michael Michaelian |
| 43 | 4th | Caine's pardon | A small beheading | Oct. 5, 1974 | Jun 5, 1976 | Harry Harris | Lloyd Richards & Ed Waters |
| 44 | 5 | Caine and the scalp hunters | The Predators | 21 Sep 1974 | Jun 12, 1976 | Richard Lang | Eugene Price |
| 45 | 6th | Caine and the old photographer | The Vanishing Image | Dec 20, 1974 | Jul 10, 1976 | Barry Crane | Gustave Field |
| 46 | 7th | Caine and the Dragon's Blood 1 | Blood of the Dragon, Part 1 | Sep 14 1974 | Oct 8, 1995 | Richard Lang | John T. Dugan |
| 47 | 8th | Caine and the Dragon's Blood 2 | Blood of the Dragon, Part 2 | Sep 14 1974 | Oct 14, 1995 | Richard Lang | John T. Dugan |
| 48 | 9 | Caine and the realm of death | The Demon God | Dec 13, 1974 | Dec 2, 1995 | David Carradine | George Clayton Johnson |
| 49 | 10 | Caine and the seeds of hatred | The Devil's Champion | Nov 8, 1974 | Nov 4, 1995 | Robert Michael Lewis | Katharyn & Michael Michaelian |
| 50 | 11 | Caine and the Kung Fu Master | The Garments of Rage | Nov. 1, 1974 | Jul 3, 1976 | Marc Daniels | Theodore Apstein |
| 51 | 12 | Caine and Death on Cold Mountain 1 | Besieged I: Death on Cold Mountain | Nov. 15, 1974 | Nov 18, 1995 | David Carradine | William Kelley |
| 52 | 13 | Caine and the Emperor's Cannon 2 | Besieged II: Death on Cold Mountain | Nov 22, 1974 | Nov 25, 1995 | David Carradine | William Kelley |
| 53 | 14th | Caine and the Mexican | A Lamb to the Slaughter | Jan. 11, 1975 | Jul 31, 1976 | Harry Harris | Robert Specht & David Michael Korn |
| 54 | 15th | Caine and the world of the demon | One step to darkness | Jan 25, 1975 | Dec 30, 1995 | Gerald Sanford | Robert Sherman & Theodore Apstein |
| 55 | 16 | Caine and the master thief | The Thief of Chendo | 29 Mar 1975 | Aug 7, 1976 | Harry Harris | Bernard B. Bossick, Lary H. Gibson & Simon Muntner |
| 56 | 17th | Caine and the search for the oak grove | Battle hymn | Feb. 8, 1975 | Jan. 6, 1996 | Barry Crane | Herman Miller |
| 57 | 18th | Caine and the Forbidden Kingdom | Forbidden Kingdom | Jan. 18, 1975 | 23 Dec 1995 | Gordon Hessler | Norman Katkov |
| 58 | 19th | Caine and the Fanatic | The Last Raid | Apr. 26, 1975 | Aug 14, 1976 | Alex Beaton | John T. Dugan |
| 59 | 20th | Caine and the hoax priest | Ambush | Apr 4, 1975 | Aug 28, 1976 | Gordon Hessler | Norman Katkov |
| 60 | 21st | Caine and the Prize Boxer | Barbary House | Feb. 15, 1975 | 4th Sep 1976 | Marc Daniels | Stephen & Elinor Karpf |
| 61 | 22nd | Caine and the Indians | Flight to Orion | Feb. 22, 1975 | Sep 11 1976 | Marc Daniels | Stephen & Elinor Karpf |
| 62 | 23 | Caine in the death trap | The Brothers Caine | 1st Mar 1975 | 25 Sep 1976 | Harry Harris | Stephen & Elinor Karpf |
| 63 | 24 | The end of a long road | Full circle | March 8 1975 | Oct. 2, 1976 | Marc Daniels | Stephen & Elinor Karpf |