Hussein is of course best known for directing the first ever Doctor Who serial in 1963, An Unearthly Child, going on to direct much of the fourth serial, Marco Polo, too. In an interview with the ...

When writing about which missing Doctor Who stories we'd love to see in full, a few examples that stood out - "Marco Polo", "The Crusade", and "The Massacre" - were serials that were pure historicals.

The First Doctor and his friends journey across ancient China in the company of the famous explorer in this missing adventure originally broadcast between February and April 1964. Show more ...

but it is also the first time that we see the Doctor meet a real historical figure. The Venetian, Marco Polo, spent 24 years travelling across Asia on behalf of Kublai Khan. He was finally allowed ...