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Doctor Who: Marco Polo (1964) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1964 · 175 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Waris Hussein, John Crockett
- Starring
- William Hartnell, Michael Guest, Derren Nesbitt, Carole Ann Ford, Mark Eden, William Russell
The TARDIS crew crash‑lands on the Himalayan plateau of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are rescued by Marco Polo’s caravan traveling the Silk Road to the court of Kublai Khan. The Doctor and his companions must thwart Tegna, who seeks to sabotage the caravan across the Pamir and Gobi deserts and ultimately assassinate the emperor in Peking.
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