KUNG FU DETECTIVE DRAMA CHINA 90S SERIES
Yes, it was fairly easy to cast people that normally wouldn't do a series television." They didn't settle for less." Jerry Thorpe added: "People wanted to do the show because it was unique, it's as simple as that. You know, there were stars then, and they became stars later (.) So, it was a breeding ground for A-1 talent and it was also just surrounded by A-1 talent, I mean, in front of and behind the scenes. Pilato says: "One of the great things about Kung Fu is that it had this incredible A-list of guest stars. At the minute 6:39 of the Kung Fu DVD documentary The Tao of Caine: Production and Beyond, Herbie J. Among them there are nominees and winners of Academy Awards, Emmy, Golden Globe, Tony, and other film and theater awards. This list comprises a selection of actors billed in the opening credits, and some actors whose characters were decisive in the episode plot's development or who later became widely recognized for other productions. Radames Pera as Young Caine (48 episodes).David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine (63 episodes).In those flashbacks, Master Po calls his young student "Grasshopper", given from a playful lesson he taught to Caine as a child about being aware of the world around him, including the grasshopper that happened to be at his feet at that moment.ĭuring four episodes of the third and final season ("Barbary House", "Flight to Orion", "The Brothers Caine", and "Full Circle"), Caine finds his brother Danny ( Tim McIntire) and his nephew Zeke ( John Blyth Barrymore).Ĭarradine and guest star Sondra Locke, 1974 Main cast Flashbacks are often used to recall specific lessons from Caine's childhood training in the monastery from his teachers, the blind Master Po ( Keye Luke) and Master Chen Ming Kan ( Philip Ahn). Searching for his family, he meets a preacher (played by real-life father John Carradine) and his mute sidekick Sunny Jim (played by real-life brother Robert Carradine), then his grandfather (played by Dean Jagger). After each such encounter he must move on, both to avoid capture and prevent harm from coming to those he has helped. Īlthough it is his intention to avoid notice, Caine's training and sense of social responsibility repeatedly force him out into the open, to fight for justice or protect the underdog.
A recent tombstone in a season 3 episode dated 1874 places the story approximately between 18. With a price on his head, Caine flees China to the western United States, where he seeks to find his family roots, and ultimately, his half-brother, Danny Caine. In the pilot episode, Caine's beloved mentor and elder, Master Po, is murdered by the Emperor's nephew outraged, Caine retaliates by killing the nephew. After his maternal grandfather's death he is accepted for training at a Shaolin Monastery, where he grows up to become a Shaolin priest and martial arts expert. Kwai Chang Caine ( David Carradine) is the orphaned son of an American man, Thomas Henry Caine (Bill Fletcher), and a Chinese woman, Kwai Lin, in mid-19th-century China. Many of the aphorisms used in the series are adapted from or derived directly from the Tao Te Ching, a book of ancient Taoist philosophy attributed to the sage Lao-tzu. The series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk who travels through the American Old West, armed only with his spiritual training and his skill in martial arts, as he seeks Danny Caine, his half-brother.
Kung Fu is an American action- adventure martial arts Western drama television series starring David Carradine.
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