1.4 Marco Polo

Doctor Who meets proper historical guy, Marco Polo, seen here doing the MC Hammer dance. 

It was meant to educate people about history. All it means, though, is that my primary understanding of Marco Polo is that he is a man who tried to steal the TARDIS. You suck. Marco. 

Polo. 

I'm not sure this is a real picture from the story. This is one of the ones that the BBC 'lost', so it's been put back together by fans, from photos and sellotape and, by the looks of it, publicity shots from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I do like the monkey, though. So as far as I'm concerned, this happened in the story. I like the way the monkey makes the eye-patch guy so happy. He loves the monkey, I think.