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Season guide

Kung Fu: Season 2

23 episodes Premiered Sep 27, 1973
Previously on Kung Fu

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Kung Fu Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (20): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

The Well

Sep 27, 1973

After drinking bad water during a drought, Caine recovers at the farm of an ex-slave who has a working well, but one who is so angry he is not willing to share with his thirsty nei

S2·E2 Core

The Assassin

Oct 4, 1973

Hatfields and McCoys, with an Asian spin on things. Two familes with a longtime fued keep two potential lovers apart. One of the families has hired a ninja assassin, and Caine wi

S2·E3 Core

The Chalice

Oct 11, 1973

Caught between a Gatling Gun and a fort full of murderous killers, Caine must rescue a stolen chalice in order to make restitution for a dead Franciscan priest.

S2·E4 Core

The Brujo

Oct 25, 1973

While wandering in Mexico, Caine comes across an old woman and a young boy. The woman is trapped under a cart and asks Caine to take care of the boy. He takes him to a small Mexica

S2·E5 Core

The Squaw Man

Nov 1, 1973

Caine helps a farmer who is married to an Indian woman. The townpeople have no respect for the farmer until he kills an outlaw's son and then they treat him as a hero.

S2·E6 Core

The Spirit Helper

Nov 8, 1973

Caine helps a young Indian man who saw his father killed and wants to kill the men who did it and rescue his mother from them.

S2·E7 Core

The Tong

Nov 15, 1973

Caine help a young Chinese orphan boy gain his freedom from a brutal master. The master goes to the Tong for help against Caine.

S2·E8 Core

The Soldier

Nov 29, 1973

Caine is accused of taking part in a bandit ambush, and is taken prisoner by the U.S. Calvary. He meets a soldier that is a conscientious objector that helps him clear his name.

S2·E9 Core

The Salamander

Dec 6, 1973

Caine comes to a bankrupt mining town and meets a mentally handicapped boy, who is the target of a claim jumper.

S2·E10 Core

The Hoots

Dec 13, 1973

Caine meets a group of Hutterite settlers, who must reconsider their pacifist background when attacked by bigoted cattlemen, and teaches them how to defend themselves without compr

S2·E11 Core

The Elixir

Dec 20, 1973

Caine rescues the hawkers of the cure-all Theodora's Elixir from a hostile crowd, earning the come-hither gratitude of Theodora and the resentment of her jealous male partner.

S2·E12 Core

The Gunman

Jan 3, 1974

A gunslinger defends Caine and the widow who owns the ranch where Caine is working. Meanwhile, Caine is still pursued by a detachment of volunteers and an overzealous bounty hunter

S2·E13 Core

Empty Pages Of A Dead Book

Jan 10, 1974

The son of a deceased Texas Ranger tries to honor his memory by going after criminals his father kept a journal on. He finds more trouble than he expected and Caine must defend him

S2·E14 Core

A Dream Within A Dream

Jan 17, 1974

Caine, while walking through a dense fog, happens upon a man who is hanging and he himself is then shot. When he awakens, he finds himself in the company of a sculptor played by Jo

S2·E16 Core

In Uncertain Bondage

Feb 7, 1974

Caine recalls lessons learned as a youth when he and a Southern belle are trapped in a deep pit, held there by kidnappers.

S2·E17 Core

Night Of The Owls, Day Of The Doves

Feb 14, 1974

Caine must defend prostitutes that want to start a new life with land bequeathed to them, from cattlemen that want to seize it for themselves.

S2·E18 Core

Crossties

Feb 21, 1974

Caine is caught in the middle of a land-rights fight between farmers and railroad agents. He tries to convince the farmers to accept an offer of amnesty, and to keep the agents fro

S2·E19 Core

The Passion Of Chen Yi

Feb 28, 1974

Caine tries to visit an unjustly jailed Shaolin student, but keeps being turned away. He then commits a crime so he can be put in jail with him, hoping to clear up an old misunders

S2·E20 Core

Arrogant Dragon

Mar 14, 1974

Wu Chang has angered the Tong Sect, and is ordered to commit suicide or be executed by them. Caine tries to help him fake his death and escape from the Tongs.

S2·E21 Core

The Nature Of Evil

Mar 21, 1974

Caine and Serenity Johnson, the blind preacher last seen in Dark Angel, look for a killer that is stalking Serenity's town of Nineveh.

S2·E22 Mytharc

The Cenotaph (1)

Apr 4, 1974

Caine meets Logan McBurney, a Scotsman who has hijacked a gold-transporting stagecoach named Old Ironsides, to haul an enormous box that he claims is his dead Sioux wife's coffin.

S2·E23 Mytharc

The Cenotaph (2)

Apr 11, 1974

Caine and Logan arrive at the Sioux burial ground, to bury what Caine believes is Logan's wife in a huge crate, and are confronted by angry Sioux warriors who feel they are trespas

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