The TARDIS experiences a total power failure and is stranded in the Himalayas in the 13th century. The travellers are forced to join the caravan of the famous explorer, Marco Polo, in order to survive - but Polo, fascinated by their claims that the TARDIS can fly through the air, seizes it on behalf of Kublai Khan in the hope that presenting the Khan with such a fabulous gift will convince him to let Polo return home to Venice. The travellers are forced to accompany Polo on his long trek across Asia to the Khan's court, but their many attempts to reclaim their property are foiled - not just by Polo, but by the war lord Tegana, who is apparently on a mission of peace but has entirely different plans for dealing with Kublai Khan...

Doctor Who (1963) Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - An Unearthly Child (1)
• s01e02 - The Cave of Skulls (2)
• s01e03 - The Forest of Fear (3)
• s01e04 - The Firemaker (4)
• s01e05 - The Dead Planet (1)
• s01e06 - The Survivors (2)
• s01e07 - The Escape (3)
• s01e08 - The Ambush (4)
• s01e09 - The Expedition (5)
• s01e10 - The Ordeal (6)
• s01e11 - The Rescue (7)
• s01e12 - The Edge of Destruction (1)
• s01e13 - The Brink of Disaster (2)
• s01e14 - The Roof of the World (1)
• s01e15 - The Singing Sands (2)
• s01e16 - Five Hundred Eyes (3)
• s01e17 - The Wall of Lies (4)
• s01e18 - Rider From Shang-Tu (5)
• s01e19 - Mighty Kublai Khan (6)
• s01e20 - Assassin at Peking (7)
• s01e21 - The Sea of Death (1)
• s01e22 - The Velvet Web (2)
• s01e23 - The Screaming Jungle (3)
• s01e24 - The Snows of Terror (4)
• s01e25 - Sentence of Death (5)
• s01e26 - The Keys of Marinus (6)
• s01e27 - The Temple of Evil (1)
• s01e28 - The Warriors of Death (2)
• s01e29 - The Bride of Sacrifice (3)
• s01e30 - The Day of Darkness (4)
• s01e31 - Strangers in Space (1)
• s01e32 - The Unwilling Warriors (2)
• s01e33 - Hidden Danger (3)
• s01e34 - A Race Against Death (4)
• s01e35 - Kidnap (5)
• s01e36 - A Desperate Venture (6)
• s01e37 - A Land of Fear (1)
• s01e38 - Guests of Madame Guillotine (2)
• s01e39 - A Change of Identity (3)
• s01e40 - The Tyrant of France (4)
• s01e41 - A Bargain of Necessity (5)
• s01e42 - Prisoners of Conciergerie (6)

Doctor Who (1963) Show Summary

Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction TV series in history, airing initially from 1963 to 1989. Doctor Who is about ideas. It pioneered sophisticated mixed-level storytelling. Its format was the key to its longevity: the Doctor, a mysterious traveller in space and time, travels in his ship, the TARDIS. The TARDIS can take him and his companions anywhere in time and space. Inevitably he finds evil at work wherever he goes...