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Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
Starring: Tom Baker , Elisabeth Sladen
Directed by: Lennie Mayne
Produced by: Philip Hinchcliffe
Written by: Dave Martin
The adventures of an eccentric renegade time traveling alien and his companions.
Item Number: 13897
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- 1 1/2 hours
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Special Features:
- Audio commentary by actors Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen and Judy Paris, co-writer Bob Baker and producer Philip Hinchcliffe
Changing Time 50-minute ?Making of? featurette
Swap Shop 11-minute interview Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen taped the day Episode 1 was broadcast
Continuity Announcements (4 minutes)
PC-ROM Feature:1977 Doctor Who Annual PDFs (DVD-ROM only ? PC / Mac) and Radio Times billings
Production Note Option
Photo Gallery
Digitally remastered picture and sound quality
The TARDIS arrives on contemporary Earth, where Sarah comes into contact with what appears to be a fossilised human hand. This is in fact the last surviving fragment of a Kastrian called Eldrad, who was blown up in space as a punishment for attempting to wipe out his own people.
Eldrad's essence lives on in a blue-stoned ring, which the possessed Sarah removes from the hand and places on her own. She then takes the hand to the nearby Nunton nuclear research and development complex where it soaks up the radiation from the reactor core and regenerates into a complete being.
Eldrad - who, having patterned his new body on Sarah's, appears to all intents and purposes female - persuades the Doctor to take him back to Kastria where he might reclaim his heritage. There he discovers only a dead planet: the Kastrians are extinct and their race banks were destroyed by their last King, Rokon, in case Eldrad should ever return.
Furious, Eldrad, whose body has now been reconfigured into its proper form, tries to get the Doctor to return him to Earth so that he might rule there instead. The two time travellers use the Doctor's scarf to trip him into a deep crevasse.
Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor receives a summons to return to Gallifrey and, as he cannot take Sarah there, endeavours to drop her off at her home.
Eldrad's essence lives on in a blue-stoned ring, which the possessed Sarah removes from the hand and places on her own. She then takes the hand to the nearby Nunton nuclear research and development complex where it soaks up the radiation from the reactor core and regenerates into a complete being.
Eldrad - who, having patterned his new body on Sarah's, appears to all intents and purposes female - persuades the Doctor to take him back to Kastria where he might reclaim his heritage. There he discovers only a dead planet: the Kastrians are extinct and their race banks were destroyed by their last King, Rokon, in case Eldrad should ever return.
Furious, Eldrad, whose body has now been reconfigured into its proper form, tries to get the Doctor to return him to Earth so that he might rule there instead. The two time travellers use the Doctor's scarf to trip him into a deep crevasse.
Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor receives a summons to return to Gallifrey and, as he cannot take Sarah there, endeavours to drop her off at her home.
A freak accident traps
the Doctor's companion Sarah Jane under tons of rock. After she
miraculously survives, Sarah Jane is found frantically clinging to a
large stone hand, and the Doctor (Tom Baker) senses a sinister power
at work. The final regular series appearance of Elisabeth Sladen as
Sarah Jane, one of the Doctor's most popular companions.
Cast
The Doctor - Tom Baker
Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen
Abbott - David Purcell
Dr. Carter - Rex Robinson
Driscoll - Roy Boyd Also in Part Three, in the reprise from part two, but uncredited
Eldrad - Judith Paris
Elgin - John Cannon
Guard - Robin Hargrave
Intern - Renu Setna
Kastrian Eldrad - Stephen Thorne
King Rokon - Roy Skelton
Miss Jackson - Frances Pidgeon Also in Part Three, in the reprise from part two, but uncredited
Professor Watson - Glyn Houston
Zazzka - Roy Pattison
Production Credits
Director - Lennie Mayne
Assistant Floor Manager - Terry Winders
Costumes - Barbara Lane
Designer - Christine Ruscoe
Fight Arranger - Max Faulkner
Film Cameraman - Max Samett
Film Editor - Christopher Rowlands
Incidental Music - Dudley Simpson
Make-Up - Judy Neame
Producer - Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Assistant - Marion McDougall
Production Unit Manager - Chris D'Oyly-John
Script Editor - Robert Holmes
Special Sounds - Dick Mills
Studio Lighting - Derek Slee
Studio Sound - Brian Hiles
Title Music - Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Visual Effects - Colin Mapson
Writer - Bob Baker
Writer - Dave Martin
The Doctor - Tom Baker
Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen
Abbott - David Purcell
Dr. Carter - Rex Robinson
Driscoll - Roy Boyd Also in Part Three, in the reprise from part two, but uncredited
Eldrad - Judith Paris
Elgin - John Cannon
Guard - Robin Hargrave
Intern - Renu Setna
Kastrian Eldrad - Stephen Thorne
King Rokon - Roy Skelton
Miss Jackson - Frances Pidgeon Also in Part Three, in the reprise from part two, but uncredited
Professor Watson - Glyn Houston
Zazzka - Roy Pattison
Production Credits
Director - Lennie Mayne
Assistant Floor Manager - Terry Winders
Costumes - Barbara Lane
Designer - Christine Ruscoe
Fight Arranger - Max Faulkner
Film Cameraman - Max Samett
Film Editor - Christopher Rowlands
Incidental Music - Dudley Simpson
Make-Up - Judy Neame
Producer - Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Assistant - Marion McDougall
Production Unit Manager - Chris D'Oyly-John
Script Editor - Robert Holmes
Special Sounds - Dick Mills
Studio Lighting - Derek Slee
Studio Sound - Brian Hiles
Title Music - Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Visual Effects - Colin Mapson
Writer - Bob Baker
Writer - Dave Martin
