Marco Polo is a American-Italian television miniseries originally Aired by NBC in the United States, by Antenne Two in France and from RAI in Italy in 1982. It starred Kenneth Marshall as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant and explorer. The series also featured appearances by also others, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy, and also Denholm Elliott. It had been broadcast in four episodes, where episodes 1 and 4 were so long as 3 and episodes 2. The series is divided in to six episodes that were equally long.