The Legendary Ranger (1993)
Yuen Jun Hap is a top class surgeon, amateur detective and martial artist with an insatiable curiosity and the moral code of the traditional youxia. His curiosity draws him into investigating a slew of seemingly unrelated kidnappings and other bizarre crimes. However, as Yuen investigates deeper he discovers all the crimes are in fact linked and are part of a plot by a doomsday cult. Convinced that mankind is due to be wiped out by an extraterrestrial source, the cult's crimes are carried out to hide and fund the theft of genetic material from the brightest and fittest human specimens in order to create a master race with which to repopulate the earth. ~~ Adapted from the novel series "Dr Yuen Series" (原振俠系列) by Ni Kuang (倪匡).
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Episode 1 - Episode 1
Release Date: 1993-03-01HONG discovers a small space rock. He puts it in his bag and drowns it into the sea. He draws a map to locate the space rock and keeps the map in his necklace. Later, a stranger arrives and brings HONG away. TUNG follows two robbers. He discovers that these two robbers have a deal with other faction. TUNG cannot defeat the robbers. HAP arrives in emergency. He defeats the rascals and saves TUNG. HAP's surgical operation skills is extremely good in the hospital. The patients respect him a lot. CHOI admires him. She always introduces some girls to HAP. HAP refuses all the girls. HAP by chance knows LING. They appreciate each other. Both of them leave a deep impression on ea.ch other. HAP even gives LING his new song for LING's new dancing drama. The rascals attack HAP. HAP arrests them and sends them to TUNG. However , the rascals refuse to tell their home location. HAP deliberately lets one rascal go.… ...
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Episode 2 - Episode 2
Release Date: 1993-03-02HAP goes to watch LING rehearsal. HAP agrees to perform t he song upon LING's request. HAP and LING take a walk in the street. They meet KUEN who is shooting for an advertisement with LEUNG . However , the awnings colleges, In order to save KUEN, LING is hurt. LUEN is affected with gratt ude . LING stays in the hospital. HAP t.ek.es care her. CHGI is hapP.1' to know that they are al reetlv good friends. SON and KING slip into HAP's house in order to get back the map. HAP discovers them. He has taught them a lesson before letting them go. HONG escapes. He is chased by El secret man. HONG flees to a beach and meets HAP. HAP sends him to the hospital. HOXG becomes an idiot after he' has awaked. HONG refuses to have a brain check. HAP feels strange. He then asks TUNG to investigate his identity. FEI suddenly disappears. The reporters question KUEN. KUEN is very annoyed.… ...
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Episode 3 - Episode 3
Release Date: 1993-03-03After disappearance for some time, FEI appears again. His character has changed a lot and becomes very hot temper. His working ability has seriously declined. Others are very surprised. Later, he is hurt during shooting. He is then being sent to the hospital. SON and KING slip into HAP's office. HAP discovers their trace. He age iri scolds them and sets them free. FEI commits suicide in the hospital. HAP suspects it is related to KUES. TUNG questions KUEN. KUEN is very calm. TUNG has no evidence. KUEN teases TUNG. HAP finds some clue. He knows that HONG is a writer. HONG and FEI suffer the same disease. HAP persuades HONG to cooperate with him. After thorough consideration, HONG agrees to tell HAP the truth. Meanwhile, KUEN arrives and claims that she is HONG's daughter. She even requests to bring HONG ah'8.r. HONG is very frightened. HAP refuses KUEN.… ...
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Episode 4 - Episode 4
Release Date: 1993-03-04KUEN wants to kill HONG. HONG attempts to resort to the father and daughter relationship making KUEN restore her nature. However , he fails. Meanwhile, HAP and LING arrive. HONG begs HAP to bring him away. By the time HAP is bringing HONG home, a secret man suddenly attacks HAP. HAP has a hard fight with him. The secret man eventually escapes away. HONG also disappeared in confusion. Later, KUEN reports to the police that HAP has kidnapped HONG. However, there is not enough evidence for charging HAP. HAP meets KAM SHEK. They have not seen each other for a long time. Thus, they have a good chat. SHEK finds LING and requests to restore their old relation. LING refuses. SHEK does not give up. He even discovers that LING and HAP are very intimate. He is very jealous and is determined to get bad LING. SHEK deliberately discloses before HAP that LING is the one he loves. SHEK thinks that HAP will then give up LING for his sake.… ...
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Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 1993-03-05HAP does not want to hurt SHEK. He thus deliberately avoids LING. LING finds that HAP is very cool to her. She is in doubt with the relation with HAP. LING goes to China for a business trip. SHEK makes a false impression that he and LING are going for a trip by themselves. HAP is sad. SON and KING catch CHOI and forces HAP to hand over the map. HAP does not know there is a map. He saves CHOI with his shrewdness and braveness. SON and KING escape and encounter an accident. HAP saves them. They feel grateful with HAP's help. Thus, they tell HAP about the map. SON and KING want HAP to accept them as his apprentices. HAP refuses. They kneel to HAP. MOK MING appears and wants to capture the map. HAP is shocked. Eventually KUEN seizes the map. YAU invites some guests to have an astrology observation. HAP and KUEN are his guests. They tease each other. HAP knows the secret of the map from the astrology's point of view.… ...
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Episode 6 - Episode 6
Release Date: 1993-03-08SON and KING save HAP, LING and KUEN in time. TUNG questions KUEN. KUEN prevaricates with some crafty words. TUNG cannot get what he wants. After the incident, HAP agrees to accept SON and KING as his disciple. He orders them to find HONG's trace. HAP and LING appear as couple before SHEK. SHEK knows that his plot has been disclosed. He is so angry that he instigates FONG CHUN in league with him to confront against HAP. HAP discovers that SHEK uses the patient to make a study of his "reviving medicine ", he rebukes SHEK. SHEK pretends that he regrets whet: he has done and asks HAP to keep it a secret. HAP agrees. TUNG follows KUEN but he is caught by NING instead. NING teaches TUNG a lesson. TUNG is grieved at heart. SON and KING find HONG's trace and inform HAP. HAP arrives in time. HONG is fainted. HAP sec ret.ly sends HONG into the hospital with Director TING's approval.… ...
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Episode 7 - Episode 7
Release Date: 1993-03-09HAP questions CHUN. CHUN hesitates. HAP suspects CHUN. In fact, CHUN has already scanned HONG and finds that he is partially brain dead. In order to have fame, CHUN asks SHEK for some 'reviving medicine'. CHUN wants to question HONG the details if he awakes Thus, CHUN conceals the truth from HAP. HONG is injected with some 'reviving medicine'. However, the medicine is too strong and HONG is dead. When HAP has found that CHUN had injected the 'reviving medicine' into HONG, he questions CHUN angrily. CHUN denies. SHEK takes this opportunity to seize the X-ray negative of HONG's brain. CHUN is angry with SHEK's evil deed. He meets HAP and tells him the truth. However, he is soon killed by MING. The police suspects HAP. KUEN is the witness to prove HAP is not in the spot. However, KUEN refuses to help HAP. Later, KUEN sees her photo which was taken with HONG.… ...
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Episode 8 - Episode 8
Release Date: 1993-03-10KUEN lies that she has an affair with HAP that night so as to make the police believe her attestation. HAP is very surprised. He worries that LING will misunderstand him. Fortunately, LING believes HAP. KUEN is again under control. She goes to the spot end chops down HONG's head. Meanwhile, SHEK and HAP arrive. SHEK is attacked by NING. HAP saves SHEK and lets MING and KUEN go. HAP goes to KUEN's home and rebukes her. KUEN feels very confused. Later, when she has found that she had dug HONG's tomb, she feels very painful. KUEN asks HAP for help. She expresses that she has lost her memory. With HAP's help, she could recover some memory but not all.
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Episode 9 - Episode 9
Release Date: 1993-03-11KUEN cannot help to give HAP a kiss which leaves a mark on HAP's shirt. LING finds the mark and feels very distasteful. She divines by diagrams with playing cards. She finds that HAP will have two women in his life and she will die in an accident. LING feels very anxious. HAP eventually finds MING. They have a hard fight, HAP catches MING and renders him to TUNG. TUNG questions MING. MING says nothing. NING tries to escape. HAP and TUNG pursue him. MING kidnaps LING. HAP does not care about LING's safety and attacks MING . MING is defeated. He cuts his arm and escapes away. LING is very unhappy with HAP. HAP apologizes , LING is then at ease. HAP gets to know YUK YAT in the fencing court and leaves a deep impression on him. Later, YAT avoids LIN's protection and asks HAP for help. HAP brings him to go sightseeing, YAT is very happy. MING again controls KUEN and orders her to arrest YAT.
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Episode 10 - Episode 10
Release Date: 1993-03-12YAU holds a masquerade. He introduces YAT to everybody. HAP meets YAT again and talks with him happily. With HAP's consolation, YAT becomes more at ease. Meanwhile, KUEN appears in fine dress. She sees that HAP is with LING. She pretends to be cool. However, HAP cares a lot for KUEN. LING feels very distasteful. HAP does not notice. HOI reminds HAP. HAP apologizes to LING. LING feels a bit better. KUEN cannot suppress her affection. She goes to see HAP. HAP implies that they cannot develop. KUEN is very sad. KUEN is under control. She approaches YAT. YAT invites KUEN, HAP and LING to a party. KUEN arranges in a toilet that MING could then slip into the house and catches YAT. TONG arrives. She has to find YAT. HAP follows KUEN so as to get some clue. He meets TONG. TONG is rude to HAP. Later, TONG catches KUEN and brings her away.
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Episode 11 - Episode 11
Release Date: 1993-03-15TONG kidnaps KUEN. She questions KUEN about YAT's trace with some severe punishment. HAP arrives in time and saves KUEN. He has a hard fight with TONG. They fall into a cliff. TONG is hurt. HAP saves her from danger. TONG admires HAP after this incident. HAP suspects that KUEN is under control. He tells TONG his thought. TONG agrees to keep an eye on KUEN. Few days later, TONG sees that KUEN does not make any move. TONG is very quick temper. She proposes HAP to use KUEN as the entice in order to tempt MING. HAP does not agree. He lets KUEN free and orders SON and KING to oversee her. YAT is caught by MING. SHEK starts to take out his brain cell for examination. He aims to make a perfect human being. KUEN is again under control. She goes to meet MING. HAP and TONG arrive and have a great fight with MING. MING hurts HAP and brings KUEN away.… ...
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Episode 12 - Episode 12
Release Date: 1993-03-16SHEK assassinates HAP. HAP could escape from death. He is slightly hurt. TONG worries a lot. LIN and KUK find that TONG has fallen in love with HAP. They rebuke TONG. TONG then controls herself and goes to find YAT. SHEK reminds MING to use YAT as the entice to trap HAP and TONG. HAP is seriously hurt. TONG saves him from danger. They hide in a cave. Meanwhile, the temperature drops tremendously. HAP is shivering with cold in the cave. In order to make HAP warm, TONG embraces HAP with her naked body for the whole night. Later, SON and KING arrive and save HAP. SHEK secretly kidnaps LING. He injects some brain cells of a cruel criminal into LING's brain. From then on, LING has become very cruel and malignant. However, others think that she is too nervous. HAP and LING hold their wedding in the helicopter. LING suddenly attacks HAP during the wedding.
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Episode 13 - Episode 13
Release Date: 1993-03-17LING suddenly attacks HAP. HAP is slightly injured. He hits LING. He could only escape from danger after LING has fainted. HAP sends LING to the hospital. After observation, he finds that she suffered the same fate with HONG and FE!. LING again tries to hurt HAP.TONG arrives in time and saves HAP. She shoots down LING during emergency. LING tells HAP that it's SHEK who harms her before she died. LING died in BAP's arm. BAP is afflicted with pain. TONG also feels sorry. BAP anatomizes LING and finds that someone has changed her brain cells. He is shocked. SHEK bursts in during LING's funeral. He teases them. BAP deals with him calmly. SON and KING cannot tolerate him and hit him. SHEK misses LING a lot. He injects LING's brain cells into KUEN's brain. He uses KUEN to replace LING. TONG follows SHEK. She is attacked by MING. MING ties her up in the top floor.… ...
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Episode 14 - Episode 14
Release Date: 1993-03-18HAP cannot forget LING. GHOI is affected with HAP's passion. She cannot help to fall in love with HAP. She tells the new adopted parrot her feeling. KUEN has become very soft and kind after the injection of LING's brain cells. SHEK regards her as LING. YAT has become an idiot after SHEK has taken out his brain cells. SHEK then sets him free. HAP and the others find YAT. They feel very upset as YAT has become as idiot. TONG is very disappointed. She tries to commit suicide in the cave where she and HAP had trapped there for a night. HAP arrives in time. He encourages TONG. TONG recalls past pain and decides to take care YAT for the rest of her life. She accompanies YAT and backs to the YUK YAT Nation. HAP, GHOI and TUNG continue to investigate. They find that there is a great conspiracy behind the curtain. They tell YAU the case and hope that he will disclose the conspiracy.… ...
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Episode 15 - Episode 15
Release Date: 1993-03-19YAU locks up HAP, TUNG and GHOI. He even tells HAP about his 'perfect human being' plan. He even persuades HAP to join him. HAP refuses. SHEK hates HAP a lot. He deliberately let them out of the prison and arranges them to go into the labyrinth. KUEN finds that HAP has encountered some dangers and a strange reaction arises inside her. She hits SHEK and saves HAP, GHOI and TUNG. HAP takes the opportunity to destroy the 'perfect human ?being body'. HAP wants to seize the space rock. However, he is stopped by MING. HAP, GHOI and TUNG escape. YAU finds that his secret has been disclosed. He decides to withdraw and explode the 1ab~ratory so as to destroy all clues. TING FAI examines KUEN and finds that HAP could help her to recover her memory. YAU finds that he cannot control KUEN now, he decides to kill her.
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Episode 16 - Episode 16
Release Date: 1993-03-22YAU orders SHEK and MING to kill KUEN. SHEK begs YAU not to kill KUEN. He tells YAU that he has injected LING's brain cell into KUEN. YAU thinks it over and finds that KUEN is still useful to them. He then change his orders and asks them to arrest KUEN. SHEK catches KUEN. He tells KUEN that she has killed FEI and destroyed HONG's corpse. KUEN regrets for what she has done. HAP arrives in time and defeats SHEK. KUEN wants to kill herself. HAP risks his life to save her. KUEN then changes her mind of killing herself. They express their affections and fall in love with each other. SHEK again we its upon a chance to arrest KUEN. He even wants to rape her. MING hits SHEK and saves KUEN. MING brings KUEN to HAP. MING tells HAP that KUEN and himself are 'Reformed Human Being'. If they do not inject YAU's 'Life Continuing Fluid', they will die after two months.… ...
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Episode 17 - Episode 17
Release Date: 1993-03-23YAU discovers that MING has tried to steal the medicine. He plots to make him inject some poison. He even locks him up and ill-treats him. YAU swears that he will kill H.4P to release his anger. YU YAN advises YAU to use HAP making the 'Perfect Human Being'. YAU agrees. In order to make KUEN happy, HAP makes a shell doll for her. However, CHOI misunderstands that it is specially made for her and is very happy. Later, she finds that HAP and KUEN has fallen in love with each other, she is very disappointed. She then asks TUNG to go to the pub with her. TUNG expresses his love to CHOI. CHOI has no feedback. TUNG is very upset. KUEN is very shocked when she knows from CHOI that she will live no longer than one month. Then YAN appears and claims that she can help KUEN. She persuades KUEN to cooperate with her. After thorough consideration, KUEN agrees. YAN gives KUEN a pill and orders her to make HAP swallow the pill.… ...
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Episode 18 - Episode 18
Release Date: 1993-03-24KUEN knows from CHOI that she has been injected LING's brain cells. She suspects that HAP only regards her as LING. She feels very disappointed and upset. She wants to cancel her deal with YAN. YAN again persuades KUEN to cooperate with her. HAP's health is getting worse. He always faints. KUEN questions YAN. YAN guarantees that the pills she provides are not poison. The Legendary Ranger HAP is very sick and requests TING FAI for sick leave. He wants to spend more time with KUEN. HAP and KUEN are sad with the limited time they possess. FAI helps HAP to have a body check and finds that he is seriously poisoned. HAP is shocked. He sets a plot to investigate and finds that it is KUEN who poisons him. KUEN then gets to know that the pills she has given to HAP is some poisoned pills. She feels very sorry for that. She questions YAN. YAN promises her to find out the truth. YAN suspects SHEK and questions him.… ...
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Episode 19 - Episode 19
Release Date: 1993-03-25SON and KING arrive in time to save KUEN. KUEN is very sorry for her deed. She wants to commit suicide but is stopped by SON and KING. FAI thinks of a way. He suggests donating new blood for HAP. GHOI has the same blood type with HAP. She agrees to donate a great amount of blood to HAP. HAP could eventually recover after the operation. SHEK tries to steal some 'Medicine for Eternal Life' but is discovered by YAU. YAU orders MING to kill SHEK. SHEK carelessly falls down from a cliff in confusion. YAU agrees to give MING the 'Medicine for Eternal Life' with the condition that he has to kill HAP. MING has no other alternative. HAP has just recovered and cannot fight against MING. CHOI risks her life to save HAP. MING fails to kill HAP. HAP tries his best to save CHOI. He even gets to know from her parrot that she is secretly in love with HAP all along. HAP is very upset.… ...
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Episode 20 - Episode 20
Release Date: 1993-03-26SHEK tells HAP and KUEN that the poison inside HAP was made by him and the poison is not yet removed from HAP's body. The poison again affects HAP. KUEN and HAP feel very desperate. KUEN implores SHEK to give her the medicine for curing HAP. SHEK exchanges the medicine for KUEN. KUEN is reluctant to see HAP suffer from pain. She sacrifices herself and agrees on what SHEK suggests. After that, SHEK cures HAP and insults him. KUEN is ashamed of herself. She resolutely kills SHEK for revenge and disappears. HAP has recovered. He immediately goes to find KUEN's trace. He could eventually find KUEN. He guarantees that he does not mind what KUEN has done with SHEK. KUEN is then at ease. She stays with HAP. YAU again orders MING to kill HAP. MING and HAP have a hard fight. MING is defeated. HAP does not kill MING.… ...