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The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fabled Silk Road to see the Emperor Kublai Khan. The story concerns the Doctor and his companions' attempts to thwart the machinations of Tegana, who attempts to sabotage the caravan along its travels through the Pamir Plateau and across the treacherous Gobi Desert, and ultimately to assassinate Kublai Khan in Peking, at the height of his imperial power.Read moreLess
The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fabled Silk Road to see the Emperor Kublai Khan. The story concerns the Doctor and his companions' attempts to thwart the machinations of Tegana, who attempts to sabotage the caravan along its travels through the Pamir Plateau and across the treacherous Gobi Desert, and ultimately to assassinate Kublai Khan in Peking, at the height of his imperial power.
The story
The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fabled Silk Road to see the Emperor Kublai Khan. The story concerns the Doctor and his companions' attempts to thwart the machinations of Tegana, who attempts to sabotage the caravan along its travels through the Pamir Plateau and across the treacherous Gobi Desert, and ultimately to assassinate Kublai Khan in Peking, at the height of his imperial power.
Cast & crew
William HartnellThe Doctor
Carole Ann FordSusan Foreman
Jacqueline HillBarbara Wright
William RussellIan Chesterton
Mark EdenMarco Polo
Derren NesbittTegana
Zienia MertonPing Cho
Martin MillerKublai Khan
Jimmy GardnerChenchu
Philip VossAcomat
Paul CarsonLing-TauExplore the crew
- Writer
- John Lucarotti
- Director
- Waris Hussein
- Director
- John Crockett
- Producer
- Verity Lambert
- Original Music Composer
- Tristram Cary
- Editor
- Richard Barclay
- Editor
- Elmer Davies
- Editor
- John House