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The television pilot|pilot for this series was a 1972 TV movie of the same name. spoiler In the late 19th century, Kwai Chang Caine was the orphaned son of an United States|American man and a Chinese woman. He was raised in a Shaolin monastery, and was trained by the monks to be a Shaolin master. After becoming a master, due to a violent incident he had to flee China to escape legal prosecution, ending up in the western United States looking for his half-brother. Although it was his intention to escape notice, the demands of morality and the responsibility to use what he had been taught in the monastery to aid the innocent against injustice, forced him to come into the open from time to time to right a serious wrong—and then to move on in a further search for anonymity and security. After many adventures, the television series ended and Kwai Chang Caine passed beyond the eyes of Fiction|fictive history, outside of a 1986 TV movie starring Carradine and Brandon Lee in which Caine was forced to fight his hitherto unknown son. Carradine won the lead role over Bruce Lee, who had extensive involvement in its development (he conceived the original concept of the series, originally called by him "The Warrior"). The set of the Shaolin Temple was originally a set used for the film Camelot (1967). It was inexpensively and effectively converted for the Chinese setting. The first season of the series was released on DVD in North America in 2003, but was controversial with viewers due to the decision to use a simulated widescreen format, letterboxing the episodes which were originally produced in full frame. Two decades later a second, related series running in TV syndication|syndication followed the adventures of a descendant of Kwai Chang Caine. Entitled Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, it again starred Carradine, this time co-starring Chris Potter as his son. The second series ran for four years, from the beginning of 1993 through the end of 1996. For extensive notes on episodes, plots, etc., see The Kung Fu Book, by Robert Anderson. ISBN 155698328X
de:Kung Fu (Serie) es:Kung Fu (serie de TV) fr:Kung Fu (s?rie t?l?vis?e) nl:Kung Fu (televisie) Category:Western television series This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Kung Fu (TV series)".
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