Kung Fu: Season 3
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.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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