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<B>Marco Polo (TV story)</B>
<B>Adrienne Corri</B>
[[Image:Mena.jpg|right|thumb|As Mena in "The Leisure Hive"]]
'''Adrienne Corri''' appeared as [[Mena]] in the [[Season 18]] story "[[The Leisure Hive]]." She was born '''Adrienne Riccoboni''' on [[13th November|13]] [[November]] [[1933]] in [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]] of [[Italy|Italian]] parentage.


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She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs Alexander in the [[1971]] [[Wikipedia:Stanley Kubrick|Stanley Kubrick]] film ''[[Wikipedia:A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. According to reports Kubrick insisted the scene be reshot several times, with Corri nude the entire time. The incident resulted in years of resentment on the part of Corri for the director. Her other film credits include ''The Viking Queen'', the film [[Patrick Troughton]] was working on when he was approached for the role of the [[Second Doctor]].
The [[TARDIS]] lands in [[Central Asia]] in [[1289]], where the [[First Doctor]] and his companions fall in with [[Marco Polo]] as his caravan makes its way along the fabled [[Silk Road]] from the [[Pamir]] Plateau, across the treacherous [[Gobi Desert]] and over the [[Himalayas]] to end up in [[Beijing|Peking]] at the height of its [[empire|imperial]] power.  


Along the way they face many dangers, from natural hazards to [[assassination]] attempts from a [[Mongol]] warlord. The Doctor strikes up a friendship with [[Kublai Khan]] in his summer palace, before eventually departing again in the TARDIS, which has been carried with them across thousands of miles.
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Adrienne Corri

File:Mena.jpg
As Mena in "The Leisure Hive"

Adrienne Corri appeared as Mena in the Season 18 story "The Leisure Hive." She was born Adrienne Riccoboni on 13 November 1933 in Glasgow, Scotland of Italian parentage.

She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange. According to reports Kubrick insisted the scene be reshot several times, with Corri nude the entire time. The incident resulted in years of resentment on the part of Corri for the director. Her other film credits include The Viking Queen, the film Patrick Troughton was working on when he was approached for the role of the Second Doctor.

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