Doctor Who - Marco Polo - John Lucarotti

John Lucarotti

Category: Full Cast

Narrator: Unknown

Tags: Full Cast, Doctor Who, Sci-Fi, Teen & Young Adult

Marco Polo was the fourth serial in the British science fiction TV series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from 22 Feb to 4 Apr 1964. The story is set in China, in the year 1289, with the regular series characters interacting with Venetian merchant-explorer Marco Polo and Mongolian Emperor Kublai Khan. The historical period and context avoids science fiction elements beyond establishing the way by which the Doctor and his companions have travelled to the past., The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polos 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