By Jessica Holmes
The caravan winds ever onwards across Cathay. Let’s catch up, shall we?
We’re a bit over halfway through our first historical serial, tagging along with Marco Polo as he travels across China to meet with Kublai Khan. With him are Tegana, a Mongol warlord and obvious baddie, Ping-Cho, a young lady from Samarkand on her way to be married, and of course, our Doctor and his companions. Tegana has been trying (and failing) to bump off our tag-alongs so he can nick the TARDIS for his master, Logai, a rival to the great Kublai Khan. And now a guard has just turned up dead. Could this journey be about to come to a sudden and bloody end?
Continue reading [April 8th, 1964] Pooooolo! (Doctor Who: Marco Polo, Parts 5 to 7)