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Pilot. The Way Of The Tiger, The Sign Of The Dragon
First aired: 2/22/1972In 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.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Guest star: James Hong (Hslang), Richard Loo (Master Sun), Victor Sen Yung (Chuen) , Barry Wullivan (Dillon), Albert Salmi (Raif), Wayne Maunder (McKay), Benson Fong (Han Fei), Roy Fuller (Jenson), Robert Ito (Fong), Keith Carradine (Caine), John Leoning (Master Teh), David Chow (Little monk), Roy Jensen (Fuller)
1. King of the Mountain
Community Score
| 8.0 Great |
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.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Guest star: Ivy Bethune (Jennie McCoy), Larry Finley (Blacksmith), Robert F. Hoy (Curry McCoy), John Saxon (Raven), Lara Parker (Amy Allender), Brandon Cruz (Peter Gideon), Mills Watson (Turpin), Ken Lynch (Percy McCoy), Gary McLarty (Frank McCoy), Paul Harper (Amos), Mark Allen (Postmaster)
2. Dark Angel
First aired: 11/11/1972 Production Code: 166142Caine 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.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Guest star: Don Eiber (Third Vigilante), Larry Duran (Lead Indian), Keith Carradine (Caine as young man), Tim Haldeman (Second vigilante), Robert Carradine (Sonny Jim), John Carradine (Serenity Johnson), Dean Jagger (Henry Caine), Adrienne Marden (Coralee), Paul Harper (Davey Peartree), James Griffith (Purdy), Charles Bail (First tough), Robert Herron (Second tough), Bill McLean (Poker player), Jim Weatherill (First vigilante)
3. Blood Brother
Community Score
| 7.1 Good |
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.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Guest star: John Anderson (I) (Benjamin Dundee), Robert Urich (Greg Dundee), Scott Hylands (Randy), Clu Gulager (Sheriff Rutledge), Kathleen Lloyd (Livvy McKenzie), Kermit Murdock (Coroner), Frank Michael Liu (Lew Soong), Kan Yuen (First master), Frank Orsatti (Cole), Jack Verbois (Hoot), Don Eiber (Elvis), Robert Emhardt (Postmaster), Paul Bryar (Pop Fuller), Beulah Quo (Soong's wife)
4. An Eye for An Eye
Community Score
| 7.6 Good |
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.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Guest star: Tim McIntire (Samuel Buchanan), Lane Bradbury (Annie Buchanan), Harry Townes (Amos), Ross Elliott (Capt. Burns), Robert J. Wilke (Bridgers), L.Q. Jones (Sgt. Straight), Parley Baer (Dr. Gormley), Judson Pratt (Cotton), Clay Tanner (Barr), John War Eagle (Indian Chief [as Chief John War Eagle]), Joe Hoover (Sentry)
5. The Soul is the Warrior
Community Score
| 9.4 Superb |
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.
Director: Richard Lang
Guest star: Jim Davis (Walker), Pat Hingle (Sheriff Thoms), Shelly Novack (Breck Rankin), John Doucette (Ed Rankin), Robert Foulk (Moss), Les Lannon (Billy Thoms), Robin Raymond (Molly), E.A. Sirianni (Wide Ed), Norman Leavitt (Burt Proctor), John Cliff (First townsman), Max Power (Second townsman)
6. Nine Lives
Community Score
| 8.2 Great |
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.
Director: Allen Reisner
Guest star: Albert Salmi (Shawn Mulhare), Geraldine Brooks (Widow Tackaberry), Merlin Olsen (Perlee Skowrin), Dana Elcar (Pritikin), Ross Hagen (Herman Skowrin), Michael Cameron (George Skowrin), Royal Dano (Henry Skowrin)
7. The Tide
Community Score
| 7.9 Good |
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.
Director: Walter Doniger
Guest star: James Hong (Old man) , Andrew Duggan (Sheriff Boggs), Tina Chen (Su Yen), Brian Tochi (Ho Fong), Kenneth O'Brien (Mr. Jenkins), Robert Donner (Houlton), Rosalind Chao (Dancer), Richard Dana Lee, Jr. (First henchman), Kenny Endoso (Second henchman), Mako (Wong Ti Lu)
8. Sun and Cloud Shadow
Community Score
| 8.2 Great |
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.
Director: Robert Butler
Guest star: Clyde Kusatsu (Ying's Son), Tad Horino (First Elder) , Morgan Woodward (Col. Binns), Richard Hatch (Dave), Soon-Teck Oh (Kwan Chen), Ron Feinberg (Ezekiel), Aimée Eccles (Cloud Shadow), Dennis Lee Smith (Doug Binns), John Mamo (Ying), Bill M. Ryusaki (Manchu), Homer Herman Garrett (Ernie), Erik Cord (Cowboy), Bob Bralver (Miner)
9. The Praying Mantis Kills
Community Score
| 8.3 Great |
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.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Guest star: Victor Sen Yung (Master Ling) , Norman Alden (Sheriff Crossman), Wendell Burton (Martin Crossman), William Schallert (Roper), Don Knight (Darrow), Jason Wingreen (Mr. Kennemer), Murray MacLeod (Arnold), Bill Fletcher (Fox), Dennis Redfield (Victor), Karen Morley (Mrs. Roper), Jim Weatherill (Weever), Julie Licker (The clerk), Richard Collier (Grissom)
10. Alethea
Community Score
| 5.6 Mediocre |
Caine befriends a young girl, whose mistaken eyewitness testimony leads to the priest being tried for murder... and sentenced to death by hanging.
Director: John Badham
Guest star: Jodie Foster (Alethea Ingram), Kenneth Tobey (Sheriff Ingram), Byron Mabe (Cranch), William Mims (Jezdale), Frank Wilcox (Judge Moon), Charles Tyner (Larrabee), Khigh Dhiegh (Shang Tzu), Lee J. Lampert (Tork Wittner), R. L. Armstrong (Clancy Pratt), Regis Cordic (Stoddard), Dale Ishimoto (The Chinese sergeant), William Vaughan (Sampler Harte), Alex Henteloff (Abner Tutt), Bob Bralver (Crowder)
11. Chains
Community Score
| 9.0 Superb |
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.
Director: Robert Butler
Guest star: Michael Green (Huntoon), Warren Vanders (Sgt. Bedford), Geoffrey Lewis (Johnson), Larry Bishop (Maj. Trapnell), Ben Frank (Turnkey), Bob Bralver (Guard), Norman Stevens (Drill sergeant)
12. Superstition
Community Score
| 9.2 Superb |
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.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Guest star: Ford Rainey (Jacob Sterne), Fred Sadoff (Ward Bannack), Roy Jensson (Rupp), Woodrow Parfrey (Denver Peck), Don Dubbins (Meador), Mike Mazurki (Hannibal), Larry J. Blake (The bartender)
13. The Stone
Community Score
| 9.4 Superb |
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.
Director: Robert Butler
Guest star: Gregory Sierra (Zolly), Sean Marshall (Able Lovitt), Moses Gunn (Isaac Montola), Kelly Jean Peters (Martha Lovitt), Kiel Martin (The marshal), Ike Eisenmann (Todd Lovitt), William Lucking (Quade), Brian Andrews (Harpy Lovitt), Chuck Hayward (The sheriff)
14. The Third Man
Community Score
| 9.1 Superb |
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.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Guest star: Sheree North (Noreen Gallagher), Robert F. Hoy (Norris), John Alderson (Wray), Ed Nelson (Sheriff Raha), Barbara Stuart (Fay), Fred Beir (Jim Gallagher), Vic Perrin (Eldon Riddle), Sig Frohlich (The dealer), Steve Chambers (The deputy)
15. The Ancient Warrior
Community Score
| 9.4 Superb |
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.
Director: Robert Butler
Guest star: Will Geer (Judge Marcus), Chief Dan George (Ancient Warrior), Kenneth O'Brien (Arlo), Denver Pyle (Mayor Simms), Victor French (Sheriff Pool), G.D. Spradlin (Lucas Bass), Bill Katt (Andy), Clay Turner (Ty), Bucklin Berry (Gil), Richard Young (Vern), Gary Busey (Josh)
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