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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 all 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 Shaolin 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 building the transcontinental 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 less 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 help with getting revenge on the soldier who raped her. ln 'The Tide', Caine relies on the protection of a beautiful 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 accidentaIly kiIled his camp's mascot: a beer-drinking cat. ln order to return to work he must find a repIacement - and quickly. 'Sun and Cloud Shadow' sees Caine acting as mediator between a small Chinese mining viIlage and a powerful rancher who claims that the mine they are working beIongs to him. ln 'Chains', Caine finds himseIf shackIed to an angry and bitter man, and teaches him how to controI his hatred and be at peace with himseIf. Jodie Foster, then a reIatively unknown chiId actor, guest stars in 'Alethea' as a young girl 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 kilIed his father, the sheriff. Caine is captured and forced to labour as a slave 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 invoIving a priceless diamond, a Brazilian sIave, and the three revenge-seeking sons of a woman spurned by her lover. ln 'The Third Man', a gambler who has been injured by thieves is then shot by an anonymous gunman. FinaIly, 'The Ancient Warrior' sees Caine attempting to honour the death wish of an lndian warrior who wants to die at his predestined buriaI pIace - which just happens to be in the middle of an lndian-hating community. |
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