Doctor Who: Marco Polo
1964 · 175 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 641 VOTES · DIR. Waris Hussein, John Crockett
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 334 lines
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00:01:16 If I could choose a Doctor Who story that should never been junked
00:01:58 the newest colophotograph these are existence.
00:03:04 I've travelled 4 corners of Asia
00:04:01 The plane of Pamir.
00:05:52 Barbara, I wonder... do you think it could be the Earth?
00:06:41 I think I'd better try and find some fuel.
00:07:50 - What is it? What's the matter? - I... there was...
00:08:47 Doctor... there are strange things on the mountain. I- I saw one of them!
00:09:50 (Tegana, the leader of the group, examines them.)
00:11:28 (The Doctor's party enters the tent.)
00:12:25 The liquid boils at a lower temperature, because there's so little air up here.
00:13:22 I am rather curious to know why you were wandering around the mountainside at night
00:14:40 Well, I thought Ms...Messr. Marco said that you were going to Shang Tu. Are you on holiday?
00:15:43 They are evil spirits... sorcerers... magicians!
00:16:53 - It doesn't have any. - Then how does it move?
00:17:59 - But it could be moved by hand? - Oh yes, if you had sufficient men.
00:18:45 - His name wouldn't be Tegana, would it? - Oh no, my lord!...
00:19:39 Lop? Where's that?
00:20:47 The strangers and their unusual caravan accompany me to Lop.
00:22:40 - provisions, horses, shelter. - Hmm.
00:23:33 The journey to Peking took us three and a half years.
00:24:39 Yes.
00:25:25 - What's that? - Old age....
00:26:31 - Doctor, he's serious! - I know he is! Yes!
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed334
Dialogue density1.9 lines / min
First line00:01:16
Final line00:26:31
Production Record
DirectorWaris Hussein, John Crockett
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes641