Pilot. The Way Of The Tiger, The Sign Of The Dragon  

First aired: 2/22/1972

In the 19th century, Kwai Chang Caine, an orphan of a Chinese-American marriage, is schooled at a Shaolin monastery in China, learning philosophy and self-defense. Later in his life, one of his teachers is murdered and he lashes out, killing a member of the Royal court. He is forced to flee and comes to the American West. Caine has a price on his head from the Chinese government and must face bounty hunters as well as agents of the Emperor who are determined to kill him.

1. King of the Mountain  

First aired: 10/14/1972    Production Code: 166141

Caine finds a young boy at a burned out cabin and tries to help him find his uncle. Along the way, bounty hunters find him.

2. Dark Angel  

First aired: 11/11/1972    Production Code: 166142

Caine travels to Lordsville looking for his grandfather. On his way he helps a man attacked by indians and the man gives him a map to a goldmine. Caine gives the map to an old preacher who helped him.

3. Blood Brother  

First aired: 1/18/1973    Production Code: 166143

While passing through the Arizona territory town of Kilgore, Caine learns of a Shaolin friend who lived there, and won't leave till he breaks the community's conspiracy surrounding his disappearance.

4. An Eye for An Eye  

First aired: 1/25/1973    Production Code: 166144

A family seeks vengeance-not justice-against the soldier who raped their daughter. Setting in motion a cycle of violence that Caine may be powerless to stop.

5. The Soul is the Warrior  

First aired: 2/8/1973    Production Code: 166145

Caine's quest to meet his half-brother Danny leads him to a ranch where his sibling once worked, and plunges the priest into a confrontation where he proves his mettle by walking trough a pit of rattlesnakes.

6. Nine Lives  

First aired: 2/15/1973    Production Code: 166146

While working at a mining site, Caine makes friends with an old Irish prospector. The prospector's cat is accidentally killed and Caine offers to help him find a new one. On their way to find it, they get trapped in a very deep well.

7. The Tide  

First aired: 2/1/1973    Production Code: 166147

A man with a price on his head can spark a lot of ambitions. A woman wants to capture Caine so she can use the $10,000 to free her imprisoned father, and a killer hiding behind a badge simply wants to get rich.

8. Sun and Cloud Shadow  

First aired: 2/22/1973    Production Code: 166148

Caine brokers a settlement between a landowner and Chinese miners, but the landowner adds an unacceptable condition to the deal. Meanwhile, a karate master intends to capture Caine.

9. The Praying Mantis Kills  

First aired: 3/22/1973    Production Code: 166149

Murderous thugs come looking for Caine after he identifies them as perpetrators of a bank robbery. A youth's ideas about how to be a man are challenged by Caine's quiet heroics.

10. Alethea  

First aired: 3/15/1973    Production Code: 166150

Caine befriends a young girl, whose mistaken eyewitness testimony leads to the priest being tried for murder... and sentenced to death by hanging.

11. Chains  

First aired: 3/8/1973    Production Code: 166151

Caine is imprisoned at an army outpost and escapes, chained to his hulking, mountain-man cellmate. They are pursued by a relentless sergeant who is determined to collect the reward offered for Caine's capture.

12. Superstition  

First aired: 5/5/1973    Production Code: 166152

Walls imprison the men unjustly sentenced to work as miners at a brutal labour camp. Yet an even greater barrier holds them captive; fear of the camp's ancient Indian curse. But Caine knows no such fear.

13. The Stone  

First aired: 4/12/1973    Production Code: 166153

Caine encounters Isaac Montola, a freed slave from Brazil, skilled in a fighting style he has never seen. When Caine intervenes in a fight to save Isaac's life, a precious stone is lost, setting off a chain of events involving a widow and her children, and the piano-playing groom-to-be.

14. The Third Man  

First aired: 4/26/1973    Production Code: 166154

A gambler on a hot streak entrusts his winnings to Caine. But the money is stolen, the gambler is killed, and Caine seeks answers to the mysteries surrounding both events.

15. The Ancient Warrior  

First aired: 5/3/1973    Production Code: 166155

Ancient Warrior, an aged Indian accompanied by Caine, seeks burial in his sacred, ancestral land. But the burial site is located dead center in a violent, Indian-hating town called Purgatory.