Kung Fu - The Complete First Season

Kung Fu - The Complete First Season
by Alex Beaton, Allen Reisner, Barry Crane, Charles S. Dubin, Gordon Hessler

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Actor: David Carradine, Don Knight, Norman Alden, Wendell Burton, William Schallert
Director: Alex Beaton, Allen Reisner, Barry Crane, Charles S. Dubin, Gordon Hessler
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 780 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Kung Fu - The Complete First Season

DVD Review: The Price of Bigotry
Summary: 4 Stars

Bruce Lee, the original choice for this series star, would have been so much better. Not only was Lee first pick, he was the mind behind the series! But in 1972, an Asian star on television? Unthinkable. And so we get this all too clearly American actor who fakes his Chinese-American origins with painfully slow speech, though he spouts genuine Buddhist philosophy. Granted, Carradine did later become a grand master, but his moves for the television had to be slowed, and his notorious arrogance (at least for me) shows through. Stellar performances were given by genuine Asian stars like Keye Luke, Philip Ahn, and others, and the series did ignite an interest in Kung Fu. Still, I cannot help but think what Bruce Lee himself would have done with the role!

DVD Review: Kung Fu - Complete first season
Summary: 5 Stars

One of the best T.V. series of all time! A young orphan boy,of Chinese-American parents is accepted into a Chinese monastery,Where he learns the life of a priest.But because of the brutal murder of one of his teachers,he in return murders the killer & has to flee to America!There he searches for his family.Series includes stars John Saxon,Brandon Cruz & John Carradine.David Carradine stars an exceptional actor!

DVD Review: Groundbreaking Classic
Summary: 5 Stars

One of the best TV shows ever made. I purchased this DVD set for my teenagers to watch. I wanted to give them a little bit of something that changed the way I thought about myself and everything around me when I was their age. This show started it all for me!

DVD Review: excellent life lessons
Summary: 4 Stars

We watch as a family and enjoy discussing the story-lines. Not gory, not violent for violence's sake.

DVD Review: Too bad they can't make TV shows like this today
Summary: 5 Stars

Turn on the TV today and all you see is Reality (I call them Un-reality shows), game shows, sex in the city (park, garage, or anywhere else you can imagine) or crime scene investigations. The Kung Fu series and other such types of series are long gone with the past. This show was about a boy who became a real man - a man that cared for others, believed in leading a simple spiritual life, and dealt with a world filled with people who had warped ideas of what a real man was. The series was great - even my teenage kids are hooked on it. The behind the scene stuff is very interesting and the spiritual beliefs of the Shaolin Temple and Priests are inspiring. Well done production - highly recommend. Can't wait until I get the next season.

Description of Kung Fu - The Complete First Season

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."

Everybody was kung-fu fighting after the 1972 premiere of this mystic western starring David Carradine (snatching the role from Bruce Lee) in his signature, Emmy-nominated role as Caine, a stoic Shaolin monk forced to flee China after killing the royal family member who slew his Master. Our wandering hero roams the west in search of his long-lost brother, while eluding American and Imperial bounty hunters, and imparting his ancient wisdom on those he encounters and is compelled to aid. Kung-Fu was never a ratings force, but its cult status was assured long before Samuel L. Jackson referenced it in Pulp Fiction. Along with the inaugural 15 episodes, this three-disc set contains the feature-length pilot that establishes the series' iconography: the inscrutable aphorisms ("When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding"); the flashbacks to Caine's youth, where the orphaned half-American and half-Chinese boy served as disciple ("Grasshopper") to the Old Man; and, of course, the anticipated moments when the peaceful Caine, like Billy Jack, is reluctantly compelled by some frontier bigot to use his fighting skills. Look for appearances by father John Carradine and brothers Keith and Robert in the episode, "Dark Angel." That's 11-year-old future Oscar-winner Jodie Foster in "Althea." Other notable episodes include the Emmy-winning "An Eye for an Eye" and "Chains," featuring an Emmy-nominated turn by Michael Greene as a not-so-gentle giant to whom an imprisoned Caine is chained. "With each ending," Caine observes in the episode, "The Third Man," comes a new beginning." Kung Fu's new beginning comes on DVD. Thanks to the timeless frontier setting and the uniqueness of its genre-bending concept, Kung Fu dates better than other '70s series. As these episodes demonstrate, the show still has plenty of kick. --Donald Liebenson

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