You can't deny... Marco Polo has great episode titles.
This is essentially an episode of padding. However John Lucarotti is much better at writing people than Terry Nation is so even his padding is more interesting, interspersed with the Indiana Jones style map sequences.
In fact... it's weird that I hadn't thought of this before but this story has the first sophisticated non-regular characters. The cavemen were certainly not sophisticated and the Thals were all cardboard cut-outs (Terry Nation hasn't quite got his character chops down yet I'm guessing) so that might be one of the reasons it has an impact.
Maybe it's unfair saying this is pure padding, the characters make an attempt for the TARDIS and it causes Marco Polo to essentially incarcerate the TARDIS team, so you couldn't really just delete this episode and it not matter.
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