Kung Fu — Season 1
Kung Fu·Season 1·1972·15 episodes

Season 1

Kung Fu
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Oct1972
Season 1

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Kung Fu (1972), Season 1 is the David Carradine western you can watch online on iFILM — 15 episodes following Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine across a frontier where his only weapon is his training.

The season introduces the man and sets him walking. Caine fled China after the emperor's nephew died at his hands, and now bounty hunters trail him through the American West while he searches for his half-brother Danny. Each episode plays like a stop on the road — one town, then the next. A family hunts revenge for a violated daughter. The monk stands trial for a killing he didn't commit. Chinese miners get squeezed by the locals. Caine steps in not because he wants a fight, but because he can't walk past one. Violence is rare and over in seconds; between the trouble come flashbacks to the Shaolin temple and the teachings of his blind master, Po.

This is a slow, almost meditative western, unlike anything else on television then: Eastern philosophy in place of shootouts, and a hero who is strongest when he simply holds still. Stream Kung Fu Season 1 online on iFILM.

Season 1

15 episodes

  • King of the Mountain
    S1·E1

    King of the Mountain

    October 14, 1972 · 48 min

    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.

  • Dark Angel
    S1·E2

    Dark Angel

    November 11, 1972 · 51 min

    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.

  • Blood Brother
    S1·E3

    Blood Brother

    January 18, 1973 · 50 min

    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.

  • An Eye For An Eye
    S1·E4

    An Eye For An Eye

    January 25, 1973 · 50 min

    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.

  • The Tide
    S1·E5

    The Tide

    February 1, 1973 · 49 min

    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.

  • The Soul Is The Warrior
    S1·E6

    The Soul Is The Warrior

    February 8, 1973 · 49 min

    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.

  • Nine Lives
    S1·E7

    Nine Lives

    February 15, 1973 · 50 min

    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.

  • Sun And Cloud Shadow
    S1·E8

    Sun And Cloud Shadow

    February 22, 1973 · 50 min

    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.

  • Chains
    S1·E9

    Chains

    March 15, 1973 · 50 min

    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.

  • Alethea
    S1·E10

    Alethea

    March 22, 1973 · 48 min

    Caine befriends a young girl, whose mistaken eyewitness testimony leads to the priest being tried for murder... and sentenced to death by hanging.

  • The Praying Mantis Kills
    S1·E11

    The Praying Mantis Kills

    March 29, 1973 · 49 min

    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.

  • Superstition
    S1·E12

    Superstition

    April 5, 1973 · 51 min

    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.

  • The Stone
    S1·E13

    The Stone

    April 12, 1973 · 49 min

    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,

  • The Third Man
    S1·E14

    The Third Man

    April 26, 1973 · 50 min

    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.

  • The Ancient Warrior
    S1·E15

    The Ancient Warrior

    May 3, 1973 · 51 min

    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.

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