You may be looking for his in-universe counterpart. John Lucarotti (- 20 November ) wrote the screenplays for the Doctor Who stories Marco Polo, The Aztecs, and The Massacre. He later wrote the novelisations of all three stories: Marco Polo, The Aztecs, and The Massacre. Of the three serials he wrote for the series, only The Aztecs survived destruction, with Marco Polo and The . Written by John LucarottiStory 4 | Season The TARDIS materialises at the Roof of the World, Central Asia, in There they meet Marco Polo and his fellow travellers, on their mammoth journey across the Pamir Plateau and through the Gobi desert to Peking. The Doctor Who serial "Marco Polo" is novelised by its original writer, John Lucarotti. He chooses to follow the obvious path: a direct translation of a television story to the written word. The story is based on a simple premise: the TARDIS materialises in the Himalayas and /5(29).
MARCO POLO by John Lucarotti. In the early months of the BBC transmitted a programme that was very special indeed. Marco Polo was seven episodes of quality Doctor Who commissioned by producer Verity Lambert to suit the guidelines imposed by the Head of BBC Drama, Sydney Newman. Adapted from Nostalgia: Marco Polo, Doctor Who Magazine. Marco Polo was the fourth serial of season 1 of Doctor Who.. This was the first occasion in which a famous person from history appeared on the series. It also saw the TARDIS act as a plot piece rather than something the travellers must return to once they have finished their adventuring.. Marco Polo did a much better job of recreating historical societies than other serials. John Vincent Lucarotti (- 20 November ) was a British-Canadian screenwriter and author who worked on The Avengers, The Troubleshooters and Doctor Who in the s. Early life. Born into an Army family in Aldershot in Marco Polo, The Aztecs and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve.
Marco Polo is the fourth serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC TV in seven weekly parts from 22 February to 4 April It was written by John Lucarotti and directed largely by Waris Hussein ; John Crockett directed the fourth episode. You may be looking for his in-universe counterpart. John Lucarotti (- 20 November ) wrote the screenplays for the Doctor Who stories Marco Polo, The Aztecs, and The Massacre. He later wrote the novelisations of all three stories: Marco Polo, The Aztecs, and The Massacre. Of the three serials he wrote for the series, only The Aztecs survived destruction, with Marco Polo and The Massacre no longer existing in the BBC Archives, and neither of them containing one frame of footage. A fairly straightforward novelization of what appears to be a fairly straightforward early Dr Who story. Marco Polo sort of kidnaps the Doctor and his companions, they travel for a bit towards China, they stop for a bit, have some food (which is explained in minute detail and made me quite hungry), the Mongol warlord baddie accompanying Marco Polo's party tries some treachery and is foiled by the Doctor/Ian/Susan (Barbara didn't have much to do in this one).
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