Una aventura épica que sigue los años de juventud del famoso explorador Marco Polo y sus viajes por las exóticas tierras de la Ruta de la seda y del Kublai Kan. Avaricia, traición, intriga sexual y rivalidad dominan la corte, pero, a pesar de todo, el joven se convierte pronto en consejero de confianza del Kan que desea erigirse en el emperador del mundo.
Marco Polo is an American-Italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States, by Antenne 2 in France and by RAI in Italy in 1982. It starred Kenneth Marshall as Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer. The series also featured appearances by Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy, and others. It was originally broadcast in four episodes, where episodes 1 and 4 were twice as long as episodes 2 and 3. The series is sometimes divided into six equally long episodes.