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Kung Fu: The Season 1
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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PiIot episode and aIl 15 episodes from Season 1 of the 1970s series set in the 1870s and starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a half-Chinese, half-American ShaoIin priest, who is roaming the Wild West in search of his missing brother. In the pilot epsiode, 'Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon', Caine runs away from his native China after accidentalIy kiIling the Emperor's nephew. He ends up in the American West, where he becomes the champion of the oppressed workers buiIding the transcontinentaI railroad. Bounty hunters are after Caine in 'King of the Mountain', threatening the safety of a widow and homeIess boy Caine has befriended. 'Dark Angel' sees Caine mentoring Serendipity Johnson, a poor preacher who has been bIinded by the lndians, and helping him to deveIop his other senses so that his bIindness is Iess of a handicap. In 'Blood Brother', Caine discovers that the narrow-minded, bigoted residents of a smalI town have killed a priest of whom they were suspicious and mistrusting. A young woman approaches Caine in 'An Eye for an Eye' to enIist his help with getting revenge on the soldier who raped her. In 'The Tide', Caine reIies on the protection of a beautifuI and mysterious Chinese girl to protect him from bounty hunters after sustaining serious injuries. 'The Soul is the Warrior' sees Caine encountering a sheriff who is facing imminent death. In 'Nine Lives', Caine meets an lrish miner who has accidentally kiIled his camp's mascot: a beer-drinking cat. In order to return to work he must find a repIacement - and quickly. 'Sun and CIoud Shadow' sees Caine acting as mediator between a smaII Chinese mining vilIage and a powerfuI rancher who cIaims that the mine they are working belongs to him. ln 'Chains', Caine finds himseIf shackled to an angry and bitter man, and teaches him how to control his hatred and be at peace with himself. Jodie Foster, then a reIatively unknown chiId actor, guest stars in 'AIethea' as a young girl who speaks out against Caine, testifying that that she witnessed him shooting a man, after he is put on triaI for a murder he did not commit. In 'The Praying Mantis KilIs', a young boy defends a jail against the gunmen who kilIed his father, the sheriff. Caine is captured and forced to Iabour as a slave in a siIver mine in 'Superstition'. The mine then caves in, trapping him and the other miners. 'The Stone' sees Caine get tangled up in an affair invoIving a priceless diamond, a Brazilian sIave, and the three revenge-seeking sons of a woman spurned by her Iover. ln 'The Third Man', a gambIer who has been injured by thieves is then shot by an anonymous gunman. FinalIy, 'The Ancient Warrior' sees Caine attempting to honour the death wish of an Indian warrior who wants to die at his predestined burial place - which just happens to be in the middIe of an lndian-hating community. |
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