Kung Fu Season 2 |
Episode 1 - [The Well] |
Details : After 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Hal Williams | Mae Mercer | Jim Davis | Chuck Hayward | Tim McIntire as Daniel Caine | Ta-Ronce Allen | Robert Karnes | Director : Jerry Thorpe | |
Air Date : Sep. 27, 1973 |
Episode 2 - [The Assassin] |
Details : Hatfields 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : James Keach | Douglas Fowley | Robert Ito | Dana Elcar | Director : Richard Lang | |
Air Date : Oct. 04, 1973 |
Episode 3 - [The Chalice] |
Details : Caught 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Charles Dierkop | Rick Hurst | Pepe Serna | Gilbert Roland | Victor Millan | William Smith | Stafford Repp | Louis V. Arco | Writer : William Kelley | Director : Jerry Thorpe | |
Air Date : Oct. 11, 1973 |
Episode 4 - [The Brujo] |
Details : While 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Henry Darrow | Benson Fong | Emilio Fernández | Director : Richard Lang | |
Air Date : Oct. 25, 1973 |
Episode 5 - [The Squaw Man] |
Details : Caine 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Elam as Marcus Taylor | Logan Ramsey as Mayor Abel Donaldson | Rosanna DeSoto as Kiona (as Rosana Soto) | Rex Holman as Canby | Director : John Llewellyn Moxey | |
Air Date : Nov. 01, 1973 |
Episode 6 - [The Spirit Helper] |
Details : Caine 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Scott Hylands | Bo Svenson | James A. Watson Jr | Director : Walter Doniger | |
Air Date : Nov. 08, 1973 |
Episode 7 - [The Tong] |
Details : Caine help a young Chinese orphan boy gain his freedom from a brutal master. The master goes to the Tong for help against Caine. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Diana Douglas | Tad Horino | Richard Loo | Director : Robert Totten | Writer : Robert Schlitt | |
Air Date : Nov. 15, 1973 |
Episode 8 - [The Soldier] |
Details : Caine 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Myron Healey | Tim Matheson | Douglas Dirkson | Director : Richard Lang | |
Air Date : Nov. 29, 1973 |
Episode 9 - [The Salamander] |
Details : Caine comes to a bankrupt mining town and meets a mentally handicapped boy who is the target of a claim jumper. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Ed Flanders | Ramon Bieri | David Huddleston | Director : Richard Lang | |
Air Date : Dec. 06, 1973 |
Episode 10 - [The Hoots] |
Details : Caine 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Anthony Zerbe | Howard Da Silva | Rance Howard | Jock Mahoney as Davidson | Director : Robert Totten | |
Air Date : Dec. 13, 1973 |
Episode 11 - [The Elixir] |
Details : Caine 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Matt Clark | David Canary | Walter Barnes | Diana Muldaur | Henry Wills | Director : Walter Doniger | |
Air Date : Dec. 20, 1973 |
Episode 12 - [The Gunman] |
Details : A 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Alan Fudge | Andrew Prine | Jack Riley | Sandy Kenyon | Katherine Woodville | Director : Richard Lang | |
Air Date : Jan. 03, 1974 |
Episode 13 - [Empty Pages Of A Dead Book] |
Details : The 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Slim Pickens | Robert Foxworth | Doreen Lang | Carlos Romero | Tim Haldeman as First Gunfighter | Director : John Llewellyn Moxey | |
Air Date : Jan. 10, 1974 |
Episode 14 - [A Dream Within A Dream] |
Details : Caine 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Mark Miller | Howard Duff | Ruth Roman | Sorrell Booke | Tina Louise | Director : Richard Lang | |
Air Date : Jan. 17, 1974 |
Episode 15 - [The Way Of Violence Has No Mind] |
Details : Caine confronts a gang of Chinese immigrants that have taken to violence. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Victor Sen Yung | Fritz Weaver | Robert Ito | Gary Merrill | William Traylor | Director : Lee Philips | |
Air Date : Jan. 24, 1974 |
Episode 16 - [In Uncertain Bondage] |
Details : Caine recalls lessons learned as a youth when he and a Southern belle are trapped in a deep pit held there by kidnappers. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Judy Pace | Roger E. Mosley | Lynda Day George | Director : Richard Lang | |
Air Date : Feb. 07, 1974 |
Episode 17 - [Night Of The Owls Day Of The Doves] |
Details : Caine must defend prostitutes that want to start a new life with land bequeathed to them from cattlemen that want to seize it for themselves. |
Guest Cast and Crew : George Dzundza | Anne Francis | Ted White | Director : John Llewellyn Moxey | |
Air Date : Feb. 14, 1974 |
Episode 18 - [Crossties] |
Details : Caine 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Eric Server | Barry Sullivan | Harrison Ford | Rolfe Sedan | Denver Pyle | John Anderson | Dennis Fimple | Writer : Robert Schlitt | Director : Richard Lang | |
Air Date : Feb. 21, 1974 |
Episode 19 - [The Passion Of Chen Yi] |
Details : Caine 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Middleton | Bethel Leslie | Soon-Tek Oh | James Hong | Ivor Francis | Marianna Hill | Director : John Llewellyn Moxey | |
Air Date : Feb. 28, 1974 |
Episode 20 - [Arrogant Dragon] |
Details : Wu 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Clyde Kusatsu | James Hong | Russ Grieve | Richard Loo | Yuki Shimoda | Director : Richard Lang | |
Air Date : Mar. 14, 1974 |
Episode 21 - [The Nature Of Evil] |
Details : Caine and Serenity Johnson the blind preacher last seen in Dark Angel look for a killer that is stalking Serenity's town of Nineveh. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Barbara Colby | James Gammon | John Carradine | Shelly Novack | Morgan Woodward | Bartlett Robinson | |
Air Date : Mar. 21, 1974 |
Episode 22 - [The Cenotaph Part 1] |
Details : Caine 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Nancy Kwan | Ned Romero | Stefan Gierasch | Irene Tedrow | Robert Ridgely | Michael Pataki | Milton Parsons | Director : Richard Lang | Writer : William Kelley | |
Air Date : Apr. 04, 1974 |
Episode 23 - [The Cenotaph Part 2] |
Details : Caine 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Nancy Kwan | Ned Romero | Stefan Gierasch | Robert Ridgely | Frank Ferguson | Michael Pataki | Tim Haldeman as First Gunfighter | Ben Cooper | Director : Richard Lang | Writer : William Kelley | |
Air Date : Apr. 11, 1974 |