Kung Fu: The Complete First Season DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Pilot episode & all 15 episodes from Season 1 of the 1970s series set in the 1870s & 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 accidentally killing the Emperor&s nephew He ends up in the American West where he becomes the champion of the oppressed workers building the transcontinental railroad Bounty hunters are after Caine in & King of the Mountain& threatening the safety of a widow & homeless boy Caine has befriended & Dark Angel& sees Caine mentoring Serendipity Johnson a poor preacher who has been blinded by the Indians & helping him to develop his other senses so that his blindness is less of a handicap In & Blood Brother& Caine discovers that the narrow-minded bigoted residents of a small town have killed a priest of whom they were suspicious & 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 In & The Tide& Caine relies on the protection of a beautiful & 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 Irish miner who has accidentally killed his camp&s mascot a beer-drinking cat In order to return to work he must find a replacement
- & quickly & Sun & Cloud Shadow& sees Caine acting as mediator between a small Chinese mining village & a powerful rancher who claims that the mine they are working belongs to him In & Chains& Caine finds himself shackled to an angry & bitter man & teaches him how to control his hatred & be at peace with himself Jodie Foster then a relatively unknown child 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 Kills& a young boy defends a jail against the gunmen who killed his father the sheriff Caine is captured & forced to labour as a slave in a silver mine in & Superstition& The mine then caves in trapping him & the other miners & The Stone& sees Caine get tangled up in an affair involving a priceless diamond a Brazilian slave & the three revenge-seeking sons of a woman spurned by her lover In & The Third Man& a gambler who has been injured by thieves is then shot by an anonymous gunman Finally & 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 middle of an Indian-hating community