Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"The Fires of Pompeii" is the second episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 12 April 2008. . Set shortly before and during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this episode depicts alien time traveller the Doctor (David Tennant) and his new companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) on a trip to Pompeii, where ...
The Doctor discovers that the Sibylline Sisterhood soothsayers are being slowly turned into stone creatures called Pyroviles. He escapes with Donna into the heart of Mount Vesuvius, and is faced with the choice of either erupting the volcano and killing Pompeii's inhabitants, or letting the Pyroviles use the converter to turn all of humanity ...
The series' main story arc revolves around the mystery of a being called the Hybrid, the combination of two great warrior races. The Doctor's investigation into this being ultimately leads him back to his home planet of Gallifrey, which returns fully in the series. Steven Moffat wrote four episodes solo and co-wrote an additional two.
The Last Days of Pompeii: 1959 dir. by Mario Bonnard & Sergio Leone: 79 A.D. 1962 written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini and starring Brad Harris: Up Pompeii! 1969–1970 BBC TV Series Up Pompeii: 1971 set in 79 AD, yet anachronistically shows Nero still reigning 10 years after his death (1971) The Last Days of Pompeii: 1984 ABC-TV miniseries
A limited series adaptation of the book “A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii” is in development at Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has learned exclusively. The book was written by Kate Quinn ...
Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii.. Discovered inside ...
Pompeii is a 2014 epic historical romantic disaster film produced and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. [8] An international co-production between the United States, Germany and Canada, [ 5 ] it is a fictional tale inspired by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii , a city of the Roman Empire .
Pompeii: The Last Day is a 2003 dramatized documentary that tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius towards the end of August 79 CE. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This eruption covered the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and pumice, killing a large number of people trapped between the volcano and the sea.