This is definitely not for people who are Trump supporters. Any character who rejects gold and seeks no control or power over others is just the spiritual sort who puts the Kibosh on everything Trump.More over the spiritual values demonstrated in this series show the emptiness of the Evangelicals, and the NRA. All the previous reviews are all agreed and I need to add nothing. The only lasting question for me is how is it possible that Bruce Lee would improve this. Lee would need to be a far better actor than I think of him to pull this off and offer the same quality experience. Having the Kung Fu sections be "more precise" would simply not add anything, since only an expert like Lee would even notice.

This is a question for die hard Kung Fu fans who may know the answer to my question. I have concluded the final season (3rd), but I am perplexed as to the order of the last 7 episodes.There is a 4-part story line about Caine finally finding his brother and it seems to be the finale of the series. Carradine indicates on the commentary that "Full Circle" was the last episode they shot and aired.The strange part is this...after "Full Circle", there are 3 additional episodes, all of which seem to occur prior to the 4-part episodes about the brothers. In fact, one of the episodes with John Carradine makes reference to Caine still looking for his brother...yet he found his brother just a couple episodes earlier.Does anyone know why the last 3 were shown after the 4-part brothers episodes which clearly were intended to be the end? I would love to know! Thanks.

The concept of the series is of a quiet humble man who avoids action at almost any cost… Caine (David Carradine) was taught a good soldier is not violent, a fighter is not angry, and a victor is not vengeful…Caine runs a long way with a price on his head for murder… He comes to the American West where he travels the countryside facing many pillars of violence… He effectively inspires the character with infrequently found qualities for an action hero: grace and self-control, suppleness and rhythmic endurance, speed and patience, tenacity and power… For several years in the Shaolin Temple, Caine learns to exercise and develop his inner strength… He learns to make powerful the force of his body… Yet he was taught to reverence all against whom he may use such force… He comes to know how weakness prevails over strength, how gentleness conquers, how he seeks victory in contention… With an emphasis on Buddhist philosophy, "Kung Fu" is a morality play, a magic show, combining the Western genre with martial arts

It's a shame that the martial arts craze that this show created (in conjunction with the ascendant popularity of Bruce Lee in the early 1970s), in conjunction with the somewhat cheesy '90s spinoff, has served to somewhat obscure what a gem it truly was.It's heartbreaking to think that a lot of people who haven't seen the show lump it in as old, campy action television, like "The A-Team" or "Charlie's Angels" or something like that. The fact is, any given hour-long episode of "Kung Fu" probably contained about 45 to 60 seconds of actual action--if not less. The fact is, David Carradine was as good a leading man as any TV drama has ever had. And the fact is, far from being a cheap exploitation of martial arts and Eastern philosophy, "Kung Fu" was created and written in true reverance to those concepts. Meticulous research was conducted, and the lessons that Masters Kan and Po (wonderfully rendered by Philip Ahn and Keye Luke, respectively) teach Caine, and that Caine in turn teaches those he encounters, are routed in authentic Shaolin philosophy.Nor was the show cheesily made. It involved lush cinematography by televisual standards and innovative use of devices such as forced perspective and slow motion (this was the first show or movie to use different gradations of speed within a single take--the shot would move at normal speed until Caine made contact with an elbow or a fist, and then suddenly switch to delicate, poetic slow motion).Caine was a true archetype of television--a complete reversal of basically every American screen hero that went before. Not just peaceful--but passive and serene. As Caine described it--"Kung Fu" was an "anti-revenge television show"--an amazing concept when you think about it.Remember, the American public was not even acquainted with the phrase "kung fu" before this show. Zen Buddhism was gaining popularity in the late '60s and early '70s, but no one had ever heard of Shaolin monks. The creators of this show took a big risk on an untested concept and came up with TV gold.I hope that the DVD release will serve to remind us all what a special show this was, and of the lessons it has to teach us.