Stories Book Target Collection Doctor Who: The Romans 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews Statistics Related Stories Quotes Overview Released Thursday, September 17, 1987 Written by Donald Cotton Pages 128 Time Travel Past Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Pure Historical, Celebrity Historical, Mistaken Identity, Rewriting History Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth, Italy, Rome Synopsis The TARDIS crew members have taken a break from their adventures and are enjoying a well-deserved rest in a luxury villa on the outskirts of Imperial Rome. But in the gory grandeur that is Rome, things don’t stay quiet for long. If the time-travellers can save themselves from being sold as slaves, assassinated by classical hit-men, poisoned by the evil Locusta, thrown to the lions, maimed in the arena and drowned in a shipwreck, they still have to face the diabolical might of the mad Emperor Nero. As if that isn’t enough, they also discover that, although Rome wasn’t built in a day, it was burnt down in considerably less time... Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters First Doctor Barbara Wright Nero The Romans Ian Chesterton Vicki Pallister Show All Characters (6) How to read Doctor Who: The Romans: Books The Romans Reviews Add Review Edit Review Submit a Review Statistics AVG. Rating234 members 3.44 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating234 votes 3.44 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating2 votes 4.75 / 5 Member Statistics Read 16 Favourited 0 Reviewed 0 Saved 0 Skipped 2 Owned 1 Related Stories Other adaptations of this story: We define an adaptation as a recreation of a similar story but on a different medium or with different characters. Classic Who S2 • Serial 4 · (4 episodes) The Romans Rating: 3.95 Story Skipped Television Reviews(13) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: First Doctor Set of Stories: Doctor Who (1963-1996) Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote
