The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)

Synopsis
The Doctor and Donna travel to Pompeii, the night before Mount Vesuvius erupts. The Doctor and Donna travel back into ancient history, in this episode of Russell T Davies’s BAFTA Award-winning time-travelling drama. When they arrive in 79AD, however, they discover psychic powers and beasts of stone running riot in the streets of old Pompeii. The time-travellers face their greatest challenge yet – can established history be changed, or must the Doctor let everyone die?

Plot
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Cast

 * Tenth Doctor - David Tennant
 * Donna Noble - Catherine Tate
 * Caecilius - Peter Capaldi
 * Lucius Petrus Dextrus - Phil Davis
 * Metella - Tracey Childs
 * Spurrina - Sasha Behar
 * Evelina - Francesca Fowler
 * Thalina - Lorraine Burroughs
 * High Priestess - Victoria Wicks
 * Quintus - Francois Pandolfo
 * Soothsayer - Karen Gillan
 * Stallholder - Phil Cornwell

Production crew
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Story notes
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Ratings
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Myths
The pyrovile are made of stone this is later true but the Pyrovile possec people and turn there bodies slowly into stone.

Filming Locations
Rome

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

 * Donna Questions the doctor about his ethics in saving the people of Pompeii or making the volcano erupt. She says you rescued me in 2008 when clearly the episode Partners in Crime was set in 2009. Because Voyage of the Damned is set in Christmas 2008 and Donna's Grandfather reconised the doctor because he was in Voyage of the Damned.

Continuity

 * In a previous adventure, the Seventh Doctor visited Pompeii with Mel in the story The Fires of Vulcan.

DVD and other releases

 * It will be released on the Series 4 boxset DVD in November 2008.


 * It will be released as part of Series 4 volume 1 on June 2nd 2008 along with 'Partners in Crime' and 'Planet of the Ood'.