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Doctor Who The Hand of Fear TV Story

The Hand of Fear Synopsis

The TARDIS materialises in a quarry just as the rock face is blasted away by open cast miners. Sarah-Jane is buried and when the Doctor and the miners dig her out, she is grasping a hand made of rock incredibly tightly. Soon, under it’s influence, she breaks into a nuclear power plant and places the hand in the radio-active core; soon it starts to regrow a body and gains a life of it’s own.

Story Order

  • Story 87 from Doctor Who
  • Story 2 of 6 from Season 14

Episodes

Saturday
2nd October 1976
6:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Hand of Fear - Part One

Sarah Jane is knocked unconscious by a rock-breaking explosion and is taken to hospital.

Saturday
9th October 1976
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Hand of Fear - Part Two

The fossilised hand is now in the possession of a technician called Driscoll at Nunton Power Station.

Saturday
16th October 1976
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Hand of Fear - Part Three

Eldrad persuades the Doctor to take him back to Kastria, so that he might reclaim his heritage.

Saturday
23rd October 1976
6:00PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Hand of Fear - Part Four

Eldrad reconfigures his body to its final, male form. Furious with finding his world dead.

Credits

The Hand of Fear

Credits
  • Writer Bob Baker
  • Writer Dave Martin
  • Director Lennie Mayne
  • Producer Philip Hinchcliffe
  • Script Editor Robert Holmes
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Sarah Jane Smith Elisabeth Sladen
  • Dr. Carter Rex Robinson
  • Intern Renu Setna
  • Abbott David Purcell
  • Zazzka Roy Pattison
  • King Rokon Roy Skelton
  • Professor Watson Glyn Houston
  • Driscoll Roy Boyd
  • Miss Jackson Frances Pidgeon
  • Elgin John Cannon
  • Eldrad Judith Paris
  • Kastrian Eldrad Stephen Thorne