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Classic Who S14 • Serial 2 · (4 episodes)

The Hand of Fear

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First aired Saturday, October 2, 1976
Production Code 4N
Written by Bob Baker Dave Martin
Directed by Lennie Mayne
Runtime 100 minutes
Story Type Companion Exit
Time Travel Present
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Temporal grace Mind Control
Locations Earth England Kastria
Synopsis

The TARDIS returns to present day Earth, where Sarah is caught in a rock fall and becomes possessed by the fossilized stone hand of the alien Eldrad.

4 Episodes:

First aired Saturday, October 2, 1976
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Bob Baker Dave Martin
Directed by Lennie Mayne
UK Viewers 10.5 million

Synopsis

England, the near future. The TARDIS materialises in a quarry and Sarah is trapped under a rockfall. But what is the origin of the fossilised hand she is found gripping ? And who is the Eldrad she keeps mumbling about ?

First aired Saturday, October 9, 1976
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Bob Baker Dave Martin
Directed by Lennie Mayne
UK Viewers 10.2 million

Synopsis

The Doctor and Professor Watson struggle to stop first Sarah Jane and then Driscoll from obeying the strange and dangerous orders of the stone hand, which has suddenly come to life.

First aired Saturday, October 16, 1976
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Bob Baker Dave Martin
Directed by Lennie Mayne
UK Viewers 11.1 million
Appreciation Index 62

Synopsis

The energy of the reactor has returned the mysterious Eldrad to life. The Doctor agrees to take her back to Kastria. But what is waiting for them there?

First aired Saturday, October 23, 1976
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Bob Baker Dave Martin
Directed by Lennie Mayne
UK Viewers 12 million

Synopsis

The Doctor and Sarah race to save the mortally wounded Eldrad. But they find that everything is not quite as she told them.

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