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Season guide

Kung Fu: Season 3

24 episodes Premiered Sep 14, 1974
Previously on Kung Fu

Season 3 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 2.
  • ⚡ 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 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (6): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (18): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Blood of the Dragon (1)

Sep 14, 1974

Caine goes to meet with his grandfather again, only to find he has been murdered. He searches for the murderer, unaware that a group of assassins from China are after him.

S3·E2 Core

Blood of the Dragon (2)

Sep 14, 1974

Caine meets a woman that was his grandfather's lover, and is very hostile to his inquiries, while a group of Chinese assassins (believed to be able to summon forth demon fighters)

S3·E3 Core

A Small Beheading

Sep 21, 1974

Caine is offered a chance to return to China, after a sea captain delivers a pardon from the Emperor. The pardon, however, has one condition: Caine must lose a finger.

S3·E4 Core

This Valley of Terror

Sep 28, 1974

Caine helps a young woman who has visions of future events. They always come true and this terrifies her.

S3·E5 Core

The Predators

Oct 5, 1974

Caine is accused of murder and must seek out a witness who is a member of a gang of Indian scalphunters, who doesn't want to help him. He must also deal with an Apache warrior who

S3·E6 Core

My Brother, My Executioner

Oct 12, 1974

Caine thinks he has found his brother, but he is really an imposter who is being pursued by a young gunfighter.

S3·E7 Core

Cry Of The Night Beast

Oct 19, 1974

Caine hears the cry of a child begging to be saved, but there is no child to be found. Only a very young buffalo calf and his mother. Caine protects him from a hunter who is determ

S3·E8 Core

The Devil's Champion

Nov 1, 1974

We return to Caine's past in China. Caine witnesses a man defeat six others in the village. The man instructs Caine to deliver a challenge. He demands a fight to the death with Mas

S3·E9 Core

The Garments Of Rage

Nov 8, 1974

Caine goes to work for a railroad which is being sabotaged, and meets a Shaolin priest he knew before.

S3·E10 Mytharc

Besieged (1): Death On Cold Mountain

Nov 15, 1974

A reclusive hermit, Tamo, arrives at the Honan monastery to inform them that the Fukien monastery was attacked and destroyed by a warlord with his cannon, and that he has survivors

S3·E11 Core

Besieged (2): Cannon At The Gates

Nov 22, 1974

Caine and the others try to defend the monastery, while the cannon the Warlord SIng will attack them with is still enroute. In the meantime, he must contend with the fact that a wo

S3·E12 Core

The Demon God

Dec 13, 1974

After being stung by a scorpion, Caine remembers a time in China, where a member of the royal family poisoned him in order to discover what was on the journey to death, during whic

S3·E13 Core

The Vanishing Image

Dec 20, 1974

Caine seeks out a photographer who took a picture of his brother, Danny, in hopes that he will be able to help find him. He also encounters and befriends an Indian that attacks him

S3·E14 Core

A Lamb To The Slaughter

Jan 11, 1975

Caine meets the son of a man who died defending his father from muggers, and wants to repay him for his debt of honor by working for him. However, the man doesn't want work as paym

S3·E15 Mytharc

The Forbidden Kingdom

Jan 18, 1975

This episode shows how Caine fled China, being pursued by a relentless Lieutenant in the Emperor's army, and how he faces possible betrayal by a woman who pledges to help him; but

S3·E16 Core

One Step To Darkness

Jan 25, 1975

Caine tries helping the depressed wife of an Army sergeant, with a drug addiction, and winds up fighting an inner demon of his own creation.

S3·E17 Core

Battle Hymn

Feb 8, 1975

Caine meets two traveling musicians, who are looking for a supposedly magical cave, all unaware that there are silver hunters looking to strike it rich with the cave.

S3·E18 Core

Barbary House

Feb 15, 1975

Caine learns that Danny might be working at a gambling hall that features bare-knuckle boxing, and winds up protecting Danny's son, after Danny angers the hall's owner by hitting h

S3·E19 Core

Flight To Orion

Feb 22, 1975

Caine goes searching for Danny, with Danny's son and a woman Danny Jr. has found out is his mother, with riders pursuing them, and is forced into an Indian death match along the wa

S3·E20 Core

The Brothers Caine

Mar 1, 1975

Caine finds where his brother is hiding, but is unaware that Danny has been told there is a Chinese bounty hunter who wants to kill him.

S3·E21 Mytharc

Full Circle

Mar 8, 1975

The Caine family's dysfunctional relationships get resolved. Kwai Chang and Danny are questing to find General Cantrell who has custody of Zeke Caine. After typical adversities eve

S3·E22 Core

The Thief Of Chendo

Mar 29, 1975

Young Caine and Master Po imagine what it will be like when Caine leaves the temple, and in their dreams Caine is sent to deliver a ring to a Grand Duke by Master Po. Upon arriving

S3·E23 Mytharc

Ambush

Apr 4, 1975

Serenity Johnson, the blind preacher last seen in The Nature Of Evil, asks Caine to help escort him with a shipment to San Fransisco. What neither one of them knows is that stolen

S3·E24 Mytharc

The Last Raid

Apr 26, 1975

Caine is visiting the Brown family when their son and his friend are taken hostage by a Confederate raider who believes the war isn't over ... and that he may kidnap children in th

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