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The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
- Herman Miller
- George Clayton Johnson
- Robert Specht
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Episode 1 - The Well
Release Date: 1973-09-27After drinking bad water during a drought, Caine recovers at the farm of an ex-slave who has a working well, but one who is so angry he is not willing to share with his thirsty neighbors.
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Episode 2 - The Assassin
Release Date: 1973-10-04Hatfields 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.
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Episode 3 - The Chalice
Release Date: 1973-10-11Caught 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.
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Episode 4 - The Brujo
Release Date: 1973-10-25While 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.
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Episode 5 - The Squaw Man
Release Date: 1973-11-01Caine helps a farmer who is married to an Indian woman. The townpeople have no respect for the farmer until he kills an outlaw's son and then they treat him as a hero.
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Episode 6 - The Spirit Helper
Release Date: 1973-11-08Caine 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.
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Episode 7 - The Tong
Release Date: 1973-11-15Caine help a young Chinese orphan boy gain his freedom from a brutal master. The master goes to the Tong for help against Caine.
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Episode 8 - The Soldier
Release Date: 1973-11-29Caine 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.
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Episode 9 - The Salamander
Release Date: 1973-12-06Caine comes to a bankrupt mining town and meets a mentally handicapped boy, who is the target of a claim jumper.
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Episode 10 - The Hoots
Release Date: 1973-12-13Caine meets a group of Hutterite settlers, who must reconsider their pacifist background when attacked by bigoted cattlemen, and teaches them how to defend themselves without compromising their principles.
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Episode 11 - The Elixir
Release Date: 1973-12-20Caine rescues the hawkers of the cure-all Theodora's Elixir from a hostile crowd, earning the come-hither gratitude of Theodora and the resentment of her jealous male partner.
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Episode 12 - The Gunman
Release Date: 1974-01-03A gunslinger defends Caine and the widow who owns the ranch where Caine is working. Meanwhile, Caine is still pursued by a detachment of volunteers and an overzealous bounty hunter.
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Episode 13 - Empty Pages Of A Dead Book
Release Date: 1974-01-10The son of a deceased Texas Ranger tries to honor his memory by going after criminals his father kept a journal on. He finds more trouble than he expected and Caine must defend him.
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Episode 14 - A Dream Within A Dream
Release Date: 1974-01-17Caine, 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.
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Episode 15 - The Way Of Violence Has No Mind
Release Date: 1974-01-24Caine confronts a gang of Chinese immigrants that have taken to violence.
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Episode 16 - In Uncertain Bondage
Release Date: 1974-02-07Caine recalls lessons learned as a youth when he and a Southern belle are trapped in a deep pit, held there by kidnappers.
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Episode 17 - Night Of The Owls, Day Of The Doves
Release Date: 1974-02-14Caine must defend prostitutes that want to start a new life with land bequeathed to them, from cattlemen that want to seize it for themselves.
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Episode 18 - Crossties
Release Date: 1974-02-21Caine 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.
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Episode 19 - The Passion Of Chen Yi
Release Date: 1974-02-28Caine tries to visit an unjustly jailed Shaolin student, but keeps being turned away. He then commits a crime so he can be put in jail with him, hoping to clear up an old misunderstanding and help free the student.
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Episode 20 - Arrogant Dragon
Release Date: 1974-03-14Wu Chang has angered the Tong Sect, and is ordered to commit suicide or be executed by them. Caine tries to help him fake his death and escape from the Tongs.
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Episode 21 - The Nature Of Evil
Release Date: 1974-03-21Caine and Serenity Johnson, the blind preacher last seen in Dark Angel, look for a killer that is stalking Serenity's town of Nineveh.
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Episode 22 - The Cenotaph (1)
Release Date: 1974-04-04Caine 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.
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Episode 23 - The Cenotaph (2)
Release Date: 1974-04-11Caine 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.