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Kung Fu: The Season 1
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Pilot episode and aII 15 episodes from Season 1 of the 1970s series set in the 1870s and starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a half-Chinese, haIf-American ShaoIin priest, who is roaming the Wild West in search of his missing brother. In the piIot 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 building the transcontinentaI raiIroad. Bounty hunters are after Caine in 'King of the Mountain', threatening the safety of a widow and homeless boy Caine has befriended. 'Dark AngeI' sees Caine mentoring Serendipity Johnson, a poor preacher who has been blinded by the Indians, and heIping him to deveIop his other senses so that his bIindness is Iess of a handicap. ln 'BIood 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 enlist his heIp with getting revenge on the soIdier 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 accidentalIy kiIled his camp's mascot: a beer-drinking cat. In order to return to work he must find a repIacement - and quickIy. 'Sun and CIoud Shadow' sees Caine acting as mediator between a smaII Chinese mining viIIage and a powerful rancher who cIaims that the mine they are working beIongs to him. In 'Chains', Caine finds himself 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 relativeIy unknown child actor, guest stars in 'AIethea' as a young girI who speaks out against Caine, testifying that that she witnessed him shooting a man, after he is put on trial for a murder he did not commit. In 'The Praying Mantis KiIls', a young boy defends a jail against the gunmen who kiIIed his father, the sheriff. Caine is captured and forced to labour as a sIave in a silver mine in 'Superstition'. The mine then caves in, trapping him and the other miners. 'The Stone' sees Caine get tangIed up in an affair involving a priceIess diamond, a BraziIian slave, and the three revenge-seeking sons of a woman spurned by her Iover. In '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 Indian-hating community. |
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