A Shaolin monk walks into a saloon. What happens next changed TV forever.
After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.
Acting
Carradine's haunted stillness before he even speaks
Direction
Thorpe blends Peckinpah grit with contemplative Asian cinema
Writing
Flashback structure that treats wisdom as action
Director
Jerry Thorpe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1972 pilot created the 'wandering martial arts master' archetype that influenced everything from Kill Bill to The Mandalorian.
David Carradine had zero martial arts training when cast; his slow, deliberate movements were partly necessity, partly genius.
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