"Kung Fu": TV Series, A Dream Within a Dream

#29 (Prod #166214) "A Dream Within a Dream"
Teleplay By:: John T. Dugan (also #20, 34, 40, 45-46 & 57)
Directed By:: Richard Lang (also # 5, 17, 19, 22, 24, 27, 31, 33, 35, 37-38, 39, 42, 45-6)
First Broadcast: ABC, January 17, 1974
Guest Stars: John Drew Barrymore, Ruth Roman, Tina Louise, Sorrell Booke
Special Guest Star: Howard Duff (also #41)
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

Caine is not believed when he claims he saw a man hanging from a tree on the trail but later he is accused of murdering that man.

"It is the truth." - Caine, when he is doubted

"Victory can be insubstantial." - Master Kan (not a direct quote)

"Does not the value lie in what one does with either [victory or defeat]." - Master Kan, after speaking of the insubstantial nature of both

"I am troubled." - Caine

"I have done nothing." - Caine

"I am puzzled." - Caine

"A man, like any other." - Caine, when asked what kind of man he is

"I cannot say." - Caine, when asked to speculate without facts

"Beauty is constant; as is the truth. Seek and find what is the truth." - Master Kan

"'It has been said that a man is three things. What he thinks he is, what others think he is, and what he really is.' - Master Kan
'. . . if a man is wrong about himself and others are wrong about him. . . who is left to say what he really is?'" - Young Caine

"'At what point in time can a man be fixed and frozen if he is to live and grow.' - Master Kan
'He must change.' - Young Caine
'As a lowly caterpillar transforms himself into a finer and more beautiful creature.'" - Master Kan

"It is the way I have chosen." - Caine, when told he's going the wrong way

"I tried to kill no one." - Caine, when accused of trying to kill those he fought

"All men have dreams of different kinds. [Good and bad.] There are [the vain dreams, the futile] dreams based on baseless hopes. [There are the dreams that spur and inspire - based upon aspiration to a high ideal.] Then there are the false dreams based on lies to oneself and others." - Master Po (bracketed are words I missed and got from Pilato's KF Book of Wisdom p30)^*2*

"I had hoped for a beginning." - Caine

"Yours was not an empty dream." - Caine

"You walk too much with your head down. Ought to keep your eyes up to the sun." - to and about Caine (this advice seems opposite to what he had been taught in the temple)

Caine loses his hat (Carradine says in Spirit/Shaolin^*2* this was to mark the moment Kam Yuen became Kung Fu advisor) and acquires a headband which at first covers a head wound. And he also is given a pendant on a chain at the end of this story and wears it around his neck from here on.