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The pilot for this series was a 1972 TV movie of the same name.
In the late 19th century, Kwai Chang Caine was the orphaned son of an American man and a Chinese woman. He was raised in a Shaolin monasteryA monastery is the habitation of monks. Originally: a hermit's cell. Christian monasteries are also called abbey, priory, charterhouse, friary, and preceptory The habitation of nuns is also called a convent. The communal life of a monastery is called ceno, and was trained by the monks to be a Shaolin master. After becoming a master, due to a violent incident he had to flee ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute 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 moralityMorality is a complex of principles based on cultural, religious, and philosophical concepts and beliefs, by which an individual determines whether his or her actions are right or wrong. These concepts and beliefs are often generalized and codified by a c 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 anonymityAnonymity is the state of not being identifiable within a set, called the "anonymity set". When referring to human beings, we say that a person is anonymous when the identity of that person is not known. Being anonymous usually is a result of not disclosi and securitySecurity is being free from danger. In absolute sense this is hardly possible, it is a relative matter. The term can be used with reference to crime, accidents of all kinds, etc. Note that Security should not be confused with Safety. In some languages (e..
After many adventures, the television series ended and Kwai Chang Caine passed beyond the eyes of fictiveThree Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. Fiction is the term used to describe works of the imagination. This is in contrast to non-fiction, which historyHistory is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in "geologic history of the Earth". When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. The term histor, 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 it's development.
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.