The Karate Kid (TV series) Season 1

SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.

101: My Brother's Keeper 1989 September 9
(First watched 2025-04-18) A lot less exposition than I was expecting. We're just dumped right into Daniel, Mr. Miyagi, and new character Taki traveling a South American river. Through their speech and the intro animation we get the gist that they're chasing some sort of little magic shrine stolen from Taki's village.

Not particularly bad looking for 1989 Saturday morning cartoon, but nothing special either. Too bad it's still stuck in SD.

Familiar voice actors for guest characters, like Cam Clarke and Jim Cummings pretty notably.

At the end of the episode the shrine is lost by having it float down the river. Fair to assume the rest of the series is just them dredging South American rivers, right?

Best line of the episode: "This not jury of my peers!" as Miyagi is dangling over alligators from a vine being chewed on by ants in a survival test of innocence from the bad guys.

102: The Greatest Victory 1989 September 16

103: The Homecoming 1989 September 23

104: The Tomorrow Man 1989 September 30

105: All the World His Stage 1989 October 14

106: The Paper Hero 1989 October 21

107: Over the Rainbow 1989 October 28

108: The Return of the Shrine 1989 November 4

109: Walkabout 1989 November 11

110: East Meets West 1989 November 18

111: The Hunt 1989 December 2

112: The Gray Ghosts 1989 December 9

113: A Little World of His Own 1989 December 16