Kung Fu

- Season 2

(1973)

Kwai Chang Caine, stricken by poisoned water, lies near death in the home of a former slave who fearfully harbors a secret so precious that it might well save the entire community from disaster.

Caine uses the love in two men's hearts to thwart their hatred and break a chain of murder.

Caine promises a dying priest who stole a golden chalice, that he will recover it from 3 murdering bandits so his soul will be saved.

Caine, proving that faith is a two-edged sword of good and evil, breaks a witch's very real curse over a whole town.

When a man kills a criminal trying to murder Caine, the townsmen ask him to go after the evil and deadly father next.

Caine, in a reversal of roles, finds himself as the master with a 15-year-old boy as his disciple in which he must teach him that the act of revenge can lead to the death of the spirit.

Without returning violence for violence, Caine ends the tyranny of a "Chinese Mafia" and liberates a boy slave.

Caine delivers a self-accused coward from inner torment by showing him the nature of courage.

Caine saves a man's mind by demonstrating that ugliness -- and reality and illusion -- can be in the eye of the beholder.

Caine befriends a group of Hutterites who are God-fearing and simple people yet fear contamination from outsiders. They are involved in a dispute over a nearby waterhole with cattlemen who fear that their sheep may infect the water.

Caine prescribes an emotional cure for a medicine-show goddess stricken with a deadly type of independence.

Two emotionally repressed people learn from Caine that to accept pain as the price of love is the mark of life.

Caine changes a Texas Ranger's life by showing him that the law can murder justice.

Caine finds a wealthy man hanging in the marsh that mysteriously disappears after he gets shot, and later finds that several people in town had reason to kill him.

Caine, pitted against a Chinese Robin Hood, teaches a boy that only the heart can truly conquer.

A proud Southern belle, imprisoned in a pit with Caine, learns that serving others and being served are folds of the same garment.

The prostitutes of a bawdy house and their madam (ANNE FRANCIS) turn to Caine for protection against vigilantes.

Caine is injected into a war between a hate-maddened detective and an outlaw leading a gang of ex-farmers victimized by a railroad.

Caine, delivering a fellow Shaolin from a gallant but foolish death for a woman, turns an old enemy into a friend.

For the sake of an unwed mother and her unborn child, Caine champions an aging tong leader who is under a sentence of death.

Caine and blind preacher Serenity Johnson choose a path toward a confrontation with evil when they encounter a man possessed by the devil in his own dual nature.

Caine is involved in separate adventures in two interweaving story lines: he helps a mad mountain man save his dying wife, and -- in a flashback to China --- battles a warlord to win a concubine's heart.

Caine resolves his adventures with a mad mountain man, and -- in a flashback to China -- a marathon kung fu battle with a warlord to win a concubine's heart.