I’m continually amazed at the widespread influence the series Kung Fu has had on the world. Ed Spielman, a kung fu student in New York City, sold his script to Fred Weintraub, whom he met at a restaurant that Fred had won in a poker game. Back in Hollywood, Fred couldn’t figure out what to do with the script, so he let it gather dust on the shelf for six years, when Jerry Thorpe, a producer of TV movies and series (The Untouchables was one of his) while rummaging through the archives for a good script, found it in Jerry’s library and bought it for Warner Brothers TV. Read the rest of this entry »