Marco Polo

The first truly historical Doctor Who story was originally entitled A Journey to Cathay.

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Series	Doctor Who
Season/Story (Episodes)	1.4 (7 eps)
Created by	John Lucarotti (Writer) Verity Lambert & Mervyn Pinfield (Producers) David Whitaker (Script Editor) Based on a concept by Sidney Newman
Transmission dates	22/2/64 (The Roof of the World) 29/2/64 (The Singing Sands) 7/3/64 ([The Cave of] Five Hundred Eyes) 14/3/64 (The Wall of Lies) 21/3/64 (The Rider from Shang-Tu) 28/3/64 (Mighty Kublai Khan) 4/4/64 (Assassin at Peking)
Production Code	D
Duration	171' 44"
Cast List The Doctor Barbara Wright Ian Chesterton Susan Foreman Acomat Bandit Chenchu Empress Foreman Kublai Khan Kuiju Ling Tau Malik Marco Polo Man at the Lop Ping-Cho Ping-Cho's Attendant Tegana, emissary of Noghai Vizier Wang-Lo Yeng	William Hartnell Jacqueline Hill William Russell Carole Anne Ford Philip Voss Philip Crest Jimmy Gardner Claire Davenport Basil Tang Martin Miller Tutte Lemkow Paul Carson Charles Wade Mark Eden Leslie Bates Zienia Merton Zorah Segal Derren Nesbit Peter Lawrence Gabor Baraker O. Ikeda
Setting	The story is set immediately after the events of Inside the Spaceship and before The Keys of Marinus.
Synopsis	For a full synopsis visit http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_d.htm

Alien Races	None.
Historical Events	Marco Polo's journey to Peking c.1289
Organisations	The Hashishin
Passing Mentions
Planets & Locations	Earth (The Plateau of Pamir, the Gobi Desert, The Summer Palace at Shang-Tu, Peking)
Science & Technology	TARDIS
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