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|novelisation = Marco Polo (novelisation) | |novelisation = Marco Polo (novelisation) | ||
|image = MarcoPolo.jpg | |image = MarcoPolo.jpg | ||
|season number = Season 1 | |season number = Season 1 | ||
|season serial number = 4 | |season serial number = 4 | ||
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|enemy = [[Tegana]] | |enemy = [[Tegana]] | ||
|setting = [[China|Cathay]], [[1289]] | |setting = [[China|Cathay]], [[1289]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = John Lucarotti | ||
|director = [[Waris Hussein]], [[John Crockett]] | |director = [[Waris Hussein]], [[John Crockett]] | ||
|producer = [[Verity Lambert]] | |producer = [[Verity Lambert]] | ||
|broadcast date = | |broadcast date = 22 February - 4 April 1964 | ||
|network = | |network = BBC tv | ||
|format = 7x25-minute episodes | |format = 7x25-minute episodes | ||
|serial production code = [[List of production codes|D]] | |serial production code = [[List of production codes|D]] | ||
|series = [[Doctor Who television stories|''Doctor Who'' television stories]] | |||
|prev = The Edge of Destruction (TV story) | |prev = The Edge of Destruction (TV story) | ||
|next = The Keys of Marinus (TV story) | |next = The Keys of Marinus (TV story) | ||
|epcount = 7 | |epcount = 7 | ||
|thwr = 6 | |thwr = 6 | ||
|thwr2 = 46|thwr3=103 | |thwr2 = 46 | ||
}}{{dab page|Marco Polo (disambiguation)}} | |thwr3 = 103 | ||
'''''Marco Polo''''' was the fourth serial of [[season 1]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | }} | ||
{{dab page|Marco Polo (disambiguation)}} | |||
'''''Marco Polo''''' was the fourth serial of [[season 1|season one]] of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]''. | |||
This was the first occasion in which a famous person from history appeared on the series. It also saw [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] act as a plot piece rather than something the travellers must return to once they have finished their adventuring. | This was the first occasion in which a famous person from history appeared on the series. It also saw [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] act as a plot piece rather than something the travellers must return to once they have finished their adventuring. | ||
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* Ian wears an [[Ulster coat]] that the Doctor acquired from [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]. | * Ian wears an [[Ulster coat]] that the Doctor acquired from [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]. | ||
== | == Notes == | ||
* The working title for this story was ''A Journey to Cathay''. | * The working title for this story was ''A Journey to Cathay''.<ref>''[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1996]]''{{which}}</ref> | ||
* No episodes of this seven-part story exist in the [[BBC Archives]]. | * No episodes of this seven-part story exist in the [[BBC Archives]]. | ||
* This is the earliest ''Doctor Who'' story to be missing from the BBC Archives. | * This is the earliest ''Doctor Who'' story to be missing from the BBC Archives. | ||
* This is also the only incomplete story to have two directors. | * This is also the only incomplete story to have two directors. | ||
* In crafting his scripts, [[ | * In crafting his scripts, [[John Lucarotti]] drew heavily from Polo's memoirs, published in the fourteenth century as ''The Description of the World''. The route followed by Marco in the serial was inspired by his first journey to Peking, which culminated around 1275. His escort of Ping-Cho was based on a real event in 1292, in which Marco brought the young Princess [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6k%C3%B6chin Kokachin] to Persia to wed Kublai Khan's grand-nephew [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arghun Arghun], only to learn upon their arrival that the older man had passed away. Tegana, Acomat and Noghai were all named for Tartar rulers mentioned in Polo's memoirs. | ||
* This was the second story of ''Doctor Who'' to be commissioned, discounting previous storylines that were later abandoned. | * This was the second story of ''Doctor Who'' to be commissioned, discounting previous storylines that were later abandoned. | ||
* Many colour and black-and-white photographs of this story remain. Along with the soundtrack, these were used by [[Loose Cannon Productions]] to make a full colour video reconstruction of this story. (''See external links'') | * Many colour and black-and-white photographs of this story remain. Along with the soundtrack, these were used by [[Loose Cannon Productions]] to make a full colour video reconstruction of this story. (''See external links'') | ||
