Seasons
When a hostage taker demands to be patched into a talk-radio host's show, Caine defuses the crisis on the air --- which launches his own radio career.
A blizzard, on Christmas Eve, provides opportunities to a variety of criminals: a mugger disguised as Santa Claus, a repeat rapist, and an attempted prison break. The officers of the 101st Precinct must deal with them all.
Peter has a difficult time protecting a woman from a stalker, a rogue police officer. Meanwhile, Caine is dealing with his own demons.
Thieves cause a blackout, allowing the escape of a pair of prisoners at the 101st Precinct .
Gangsters from Chinatown seek a key and bracelet that are in the possession of a female kung fu teacher, whose mortally ill grandfather was an old adversary of the Ancient.
Caine is poisoned by some assailants with a toxin that affects his chi, his life force. According to the Ancient, Caine will die, unless his spirit and his chi can be reunited.
Sing Wah memebers steal a Shaolin treasure and sell it to a publishing house, which uses it for a promotional treasure hunt. Then Sing Wah decides it wants it back.
Kermit travels to Florida to seek revenge on the gangster who murdered his brother.
After a date with Scalany, Caine is hit by a car, then disappears. Months later he surfaces aa a casino pianist---who recognizes no one from the precinct.
Caine and Peter trace the missing Kermit to a compound where a terrorist is holding relatives of diplomats and politicians hostage.
A carnival house of horrors scares a man to death --- thanks to its operator, an old adversary of Caine's known as Dr. Frieze.
Kwai Chang Caine enrolls in a speech class while Peter tries to solve a rash of crimes against local merchants. Several of the merchants,who happen to be in the class, are being terrorized by members of a triad group led by Li Sung (see earlier episode ""Tournament"") and his new disciple Clarence Choi (see earlier episodes ""The Lacquered Box"" and ""Aspects of the Soul""). Li Sung wants to take control of the successful businesses owned by these merchants, and kidnaps their teacher in an attempt to get them to comply. Banding together with Caine and Peter, the merchants fight back against the triad and manage to free their teacher and send Clarence and Li Sung back to prison.
Kids exploring an abandoned house find a trove of Chinese artifacts, including a board game which emits a ""great force"" that hits Caine miles away.
A mercenary named Macklin with whom Caine and Peter have had a run-ins in the past, turns up at a military academy, where cadets are killing themselves.
When the Dalai Lama visits Chinatown, he is targeted by a strange contract killer with flames in his eyes. Peter and Caine find out that the assassin is an old friend.
Somebody's targeting a hockey team, so Peter poses as a player and joins the team.
""Deadly and venomous creatures"" want to use Caine to take over Chinatown. Meanwhile, Peter has a new girlfriend.
Caine has a vision in volving Capt. Simms, gunfire and an underworld figure. Then, witnesses see Simms shoot the mobster.
A hold-up man shoots Skalany in a small-town diner, but the real bad guy is his boss---a U.S. Marshall.
In this episode, Peter and Caine travel to ancient China to help the first shaolin monks fight the warlords. The monks don't have the tattoos and Peter and Caine must explain the essence of being Shaolin.
Description
Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s urban America.
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Genres
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CastDavid CarradineChris PotterKim ChanKate TrotterScott WentworthVictoria Snow
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Channel
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Premiere DateJanuary 27, 1993
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Rating6.682 (55)
