Information
Writer: James Moran
Director: Colin Teague
Script Editor: Brian Minchin
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner
Originally Broadcast: 12th April 2008
Duration: 48 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 9.04m
Production Code: 4.2
Monsters/Villains: Pyrovile, Soothsayers, Lucius
Writer: James Moran
Director: Colin Teague
Script Editor: Brian Minchin
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner
Originally Broadcast: 12th April 2008
Duration: 48 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 9.04m
Production Code: 4.2
Monsters/Villains: Pyrovile, Soothsayers, Lucius
Year Set: 23rd/24th August AD 79
Location: Pompeii
Synopsis
The Doctor and Donna travel back into ancient history, in tonight's 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?
Cast
Monster File: Pyrovile
Home Planet: Pyrovilia
Life Form: Living Rock
With a stone skin held together by living magma, their shape resembles Roman Gladiators. Their ship fell to Earth thousands of years ago, shattering them into dust. The 62 AD caused by Vesuvuis re-awakened them, and they possessed human host in nearby Pompeii. These hosts helped the few adult Pyroviles who had survived to construct an energy conversion matrix to use Vesuvius's lava to conquer Earth and power the conversion of the whole human race into adult Pyroviles, to replace their lost homeworld of Pyrovilia, which, according to Lucius (a Roman Augur working for the Pyroviles), was "lost". Throwing water over them is fatal, since it causes their magma to cool. They are also capable of breathing fire; their breath is shown as powerful enough to incinerate a human in seconds. The Pyroviles were supposedly destroyed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Synopsis
The Doctor and Donna travel back into ancient history, in tonight's 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?
Cast
The Doctor - David Tennant
Donna Noble - Catherine Tate
Stallholder - Phil Cornwell
Soothsayer - Karen Gillan
Spurrina - Sasha Behar
Thalina - Lorraine Burroughs
Caecilius - Peter Capaldi
Metella - Tracey Childs
Evelina - Francesca Fowler
Quintus - Francois Pandolfo
High Priestess - Victoria Wicks
Major Domo - Gerard Bell
Lucius - Phil Davis
Monster File: Pyrovile
Home Planet: Pyrovilia
Life Form: Living Rock
With a stone skin held together by living magma, their shape resembles Roman Gladiators. Their ship fell to Earth thousands of years ago, shattering them into dust. The 62 AD caused by Vesuvuis re-awakened them, and they possessed human host in nearby Pompeii. These hosts helped the few adult Pyroviles who had survived to construct an energy conversion matrix to use Vesuvius's lava to conquer Earth and power the conversion of the whole human race into adult Pyroviles, to replace their lost homeworld of Pyrovilia, which, according to Lucius (a Roman Augur working for the Pyroviles), was "lost". Throwing water over them is fatal, since it causes their magma to cool. They are also capable of breathing fire; their breath is shown as powerful enough to incinerate a human in seconds. The Pyroviles were supposedly destroyed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Preceded by: Partners in Crime - Followed by: Planet of the Ood
