בעולם גדוש בחמדנות, בגידות, תככים מיניים ויריבות, הסדרה "מרקו פולו" מספרת את הרפתקאותיו של החוקר המפורסם בבית המשפט של קובלאי חאן בסין של המאה ה-13.

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.