• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1964-04-04
  • Runtime175 minutes
  • TaglineNot Available
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreScience Fiction, Adventure, Drama
  • Production
    CompaniesBBC
  • BudgetNot Available

Movie Overview

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.

Casts

William Hartnell

Carole Ann Ford

Jacqueline Hill

William Russell

Mark Eden

Derren Nesbitt

Zienia Merton

Martin Miller

Jimmy Gardner

Philip Voss

Paul Carson

Tutte Lemkow

Leslie Bates