'Attack of the Barbarians' Story Code '9626' by Robert Hanmer

1287: Doug and Tony arrive during a Mongolian battle, where they are captured and brought before Batu Khan, the grandson of the mighty warrior Genghis Khan. Doug is rendered unconscious, while Tony is mistaken for one of Marco Polo's men and tortured for information on the defences of the fort where Polo and his men are under siege. When Kahn leaves to pursue Polo, Doug regains consciousness and frees Tony; together, the two time-travellers make their escape and encounter Polo. Having convinced the Venetian that they are friends, Doug and Tony are taken back to the fort, where Tony falls in love with a beautiful Eurasian girl named Sarit. But unknown to Tony, Sarit is the daughter of Kublai Khan, and Batu has ordered his men to infiltrate the fort and kidnap her; Batu believes that by marrying Sarit he will gain command over all the Mongol tribes, thereby ensuring that he will take over Genghis Khan’s empire. Tony takes a moonlit walk with Sarit, but Batu's men scale the fort’s wall and take the girl by force. Tony and Doug set off to Batu's camp to rescue Sarit, armed with a quantity of Polo's explosives - but then Tony stuns Doug with the revelation that he now plans to spend the rest of his life in the Thirteenth-Century with Sarit…

Cliff-hanger: As Doug and Tony travel through the time / space vortex, they and the staff of Project Tic-Toc become frozen in time. Merlin the wizard appears, and transports the two time-travellers to the Time Tunnel control room, where he commands them to be his servants…

James Darren (Tony Newman), Robert Colbert (Doug Phillips), Whit Bissell (Lieutenant General Heywood Kirk), John Zaremba (Doctor Raymond Swain), Lee Meriwether (Doctor Ann MacGregor), John Saxon (Marco Polo), Vitina Marcus (Sarit), Arthur Batanides (Batu), Paul Mantee (Ambahai)

Directed by Sobey Martin
Produced and created by Irwin Allen
An Irwin Allen Production in Association with Kent Productions, Inc. and Twentieth Century-Fox Television, Inc.

TX:
US TX - 10th March 1967

Notes:
*Featuring Doctor Tony Newman, Doctor Doug Phillips, Lieutenant General Heywood Kirk, Doctor Raymond Swain and Doctor Ann MacGregor

*The historical accuracy on this one is even worse than usual! Marco Polo was born in 1254, and Batu Khan died the following year, in 1255. Making this episode’s Polo a pretty developed one-year old!