4.02: The Fires of Pompeii

This is: Doctor Who: Series 4 - Episode 2

Title: The Fires of Pompeii

Mon/Vil: Pyroviles, Sibylline Sisterhood & Lucius Pextras Dextras

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?

Writer: James Moran

Director: Colin Teague

Producer: Phil Collinson

First Broadcast: 12th April 2008

Ratings: 9.0 Million

Duration: 48.13

Cast: Tenth 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