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Marco Polo

February 21, 1960 TV Episode Peabody's Improbable History

Studio
Jay Ward Productions

Characters

Mr. Peabody, Sherman, Marco Polo, Kublai Khan

Credits

Directing

Director
Gerard Baldwin, Frank Braxton, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, Paul Harvey, Jim Hiltz, Bill Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted parmelee, Gerry Ray, Dun Roman, Bob Schleh, George Singer, Ernie Terrazas, John Walker, Rudy Zamora

Producing

Producer
Jay Ward, Bill Scott, Ponsonby Britt O.B.E

Writing

Writer
George Atkins, Al Burns, Jim Critchfield, Chris Hayward, Chris Jenkyns, Jim MacGeorge, John Marshall, Paul Mazursky, Jack Mendelsohn, Bill Scott, Larry Tucker, Lloyd Turner

Voices

Voice
Bill Scott (Mr. Peabody), Walter Tetley (Sherman), Paul Frees (Marco Polo, Kublai Khan)

Music

Music
Sheldon Allman

Animation

Animator
Bob Bachman, Howard Baldwin, Herman Cohen, Phil Duncan, Bob Goe, Fred Madison, Bob Maxfield, Gary Mooney, Barrie Nelson, Jack Schnerk, Rod Scribner, Alan Zaslove

Editing

Editor
Skip Craig, Roger Donley

Production notes

Originally broadcast on the Rocky and His Friends show.

This segment featured dog-genius Mr. Peabody and his "boy" Sherman traveling through history via Peabody's "Wayback Machine." Each episode showed the duo traveling throughout the ages as they helped important historical figures (Columbus, Galileo, Edison, etc.) actually achieve the pivotal discoveries that changed history. Mr. Peabody used his dry wit to end each episode with a pun loosely disguised as a moral for Sherman and the audience to learn from.