

When Caine discovers the culprit is the nephew of the Emperor, he exacts revenge by slaying the man. In the premiere episode of the series, Caine's mentor at the monastery, Master Po, is murdered. There, he learns the ways of the Shaolin monks while he also trains in the martial arts, eventually becoming an expert. The son of American Thomas Henry Caine and a Chinese woman, Caine enters a Shaolin monastery after becoming an orphan upon his maternal grandfather's death. The story of Kung Fu centers around the character of Kwai Chang Caine, played by David Carradine. network ABC after its film-length pilot aired on anthology program ABC Movie of the Week. The series premiered as a regular series on the U.S.

Kung Fu is an American period drama about a Shaolin monk who travels across the Old West of the United States in search of his half-brother.
