Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels to the East and the court of Kublai Khan who makes him an emissary and sends him on diplomatic missions throughout his empire. Over many years, Polo learns new cultures and languages, but he is haunted by the face of a mysterious woman whom he had met before leaving Venice and encounters her face in every woman he sees. Eventually returning to Venice to share his exotic and esoteric knowledge, Marco Polo once again finds the woman of his dreams. The Adventures of Marco Polo was an original, live television musical which was broadcast on NBC on April 14, 1956.
Unfortunately the movie The Adventures of Marco Polo is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Max Liebman | Director |
| Production | Max Liebman | Producer |
| Writing | Billy Friedberg | Writer |
| Writing | Will Glickman | Writer |
| Writing | Neil Simon | Writer |
| Sound | Mel Pahl | Songs |
| Sound | Clay Warnick | Songs |
| Writing | Edward Eager | Lyricist |
| Sound | Charles Sanford | Conductor |
| Sound | Irwin Kostal | Orchestrator |
| Sound | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Original Music Composer |
