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Kung Fu tv series

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Sequel:

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series)

Pilot Episode:

Kung Fu (TV)

Original title

Kung Fu

Year

1972

Running time

60 min.

Country

United States

Director

Ed Spielman (Creator), Richard Lang, Jerry Thorpe, Marc Daniels, Harry Harris, Robert Butler

Screenwriter

Ed Spielman, Herman Miller, Kittridge Buston, John T. Dugan, William Kelley, Ed Waters

Cast

Music

Jim Helms

Cinematography

Richard L. Rawlings, Chuck Arnold

Producer

Warner Bros. Television. Broadcast by: ABC

Genre

TV Series. Action. Adventure. Western. Drama | Martial Arts

Synopsis

TV Series (1972-1975). 3 Seasons. 63 Episodes. He is a man of peace in a violent land. He is Kwai Chang Caine, schooled in the spirit-mind-body ways of the Shaolin priesthood by the blind, avuncular Master Po and the stern yet loving master Kan. Caine speaks softly but hits hard. He lives humbly yet knows great contentment. He is the Old West's most unusual hero. But hero is not a word Caine would use. He would simply say, "I am a man."

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Awards: 1975: Emmy: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Single Performance (Lew Ayres)

1973: Emmy: Best Direction and Cinematography. 6 Nom., including Best Drama Series

1972: Emmy: Best Makeup

1973: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Actor TV Series - Drama (David Carradine)

1973: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director Drama Series

1972: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Best Screenplay in Episodic Drama

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Critics' reviews

"Not a little pretentious and not a little didactic, but not bad all the same."

Baltimore Sun
"The story was so much malarkey, but Carradine makes a great wind-swept hero."

Miami Herald
"Given the established format of the TV western, the new series is attempting a new direction, away from the "eye for an eye" brand of confrontation."

John J. O'Connor: The New York Times
"David Carradine, who plays Caine, is called upon to keep his face straight almost all of the time and achieve an effect that is maybe two parts inscrutable to one part stupid."

The Washington Post
"Strong and stoic, Caine could turn on the kind of audience that used to dig Illya Kuryakin or Mr. Spock. The kind that likes to speculate about what goes on behind an impassive facade."

Philadelphia Inquirer
"It's offbeat and its teachings about mental and physical discipline are worth tuning in."

Kay Gardella: New York Daily News
"Carradine plays the role so well you can't think of anyone else who could fit the part."

Los Angeles Times
"Kung Fu is as languidly stylish as a Chinese willow pattern... This is an action show, yet it's pervaded by quietude and reverie."

The Age

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