[[Category:th century| *]] [[Category:s| *]] [[Category:th century decades]] 1289 was, according to Marco Polo, the year in which the First Doctor, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton and Susan Foreman found themselves on a long, overland journey from the Plain of Pamir to Peking in Cathay. (TV: Marco Polo) The journey lasted several months. (AUDIO: 1963: The Space Race)