Doctor Who: Marco Polo
- Released on
- Runtime
- 175 mins
The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fabled Silk Road to see the Emperor Kublai Khan. The story concerns the Doctor and his companions' attempts to thwart the machinations of Tegana, who attempts to sabotage the caravan along its travels through the Pamir Plateau and across the treacherous Gobi Desert, and ultimately to assassinate Kublai Khan in Peking, at the height of his imperial power.
The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fabled Silk Road to see the Emperor Kublai Khan. The story concerns the Doctor and his companions' attempts to thwart the machinations of Tegana, who attempts to sabotage the caravan along its travels through the Pamir Plateau and across the treacherous Gobi Desert, and ultimately to assassinate Kublai Khan in Peking, at the height of his imperial power.
Cast
- William Hartnell
- Carole Ann Ford
- Jacqueline Hill
- William Russell
- Mark Eden
- Derren Nesbitt
- Zienia Merton
- Martin Miller
- Jimmy Gardner
- Charles Wade
- Philip Voss
- Paul Carson
- Gábor Baraker
- Tutte Lemkow
- Claire Davenport
- Leslie Bates
- Michael Guest
- Peter Lawrence
- Basil Tang
Director
- Waris Hussein
- John Crockett
Producers
- Verity Lambert
- Mervyn Pinfield
