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 He was the director of [[The Pilot Episode|the pilot episode]], which was very different from the final version. After [[Sydney Newman]] saw the pilot, he took Waris and [[producer]] [[Verity Lambert]] to dinner, told them he thought it was terrible and gave them another chance at the episode. They made ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' together. Waris tried to forget the pilot, as he thought it was so terrible that people would fall asleep while watching it.
-His next ''Doctor Who'' association was with the story ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'', for which he directed six of the seven episodes. He claimed he had a strange imagination and, in one of the scenes, wanted to have a dwarf on an actor's shoulder. In the end, a [[spider]]-[[monkey]] was used.
+His next ''Doctor Who'' association was with the story ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'', for which he directed six of the seven episodes. He claimed he had a strange imagination and, in one of the scenes, wanted to have a dwarf on an actor's shoulder. In the end, a [[spider monkey]] was used.
 In ''[[An Adventure in Space and Time (TV story)|An Adventure in Space and Time]]'', Hussein was played by [[Sacha Dhawan]]. In this documentary, it was said that he left to direct ''A Passage to India'', when in fact he directed ''The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling''.