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 Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear [1976]
Date(s) of Broadcast:
2 October 1976 - 23 October 1976
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Production: Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Unit Manager: Chris D'Oyly-John
SCRIPT
Script: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
Story Editors: Robert Holmes
DIRECTION
Director: Lennie Mayne
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Derek Slee
Film Camera: Max Samett
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Christopher Rowlands
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson
SOUND
Studio Sound: Brian Hiles
Special Sound: Dick Mills
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Judy Neame
Costumes: Barbara Lane
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Colin Mapson
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Christine Ruscoe
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Marion McDougall
Assistant Floor Manager: Terry Winders
STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Max Faulkner
CAST
Rex Robinson [Dr Carter]
Roy Skelton [King Rokon]
Renu Setna [intern]
David Purcell [Tom Abbott]
Roy Pattison [Zazzka]
Robin Hargrave [guard]
Gkyn Houston [Professor Owen Watson]
Roy Boyd [Driscoll]
Frances Pidgeon [Miss Jackson]
John Cannon [Elgin]
Judith Paris, Stephen Thorne [Eldrad – uncredited]
Roy Skelton [computer voice – uncredited]
Libby Ritchie [hospital nurse – uncredited]
John Delieu, Derek Suthern [path lab technicians – uncredited]
Max Faulkner [double for Dr Carter – uncredited]
Michael Dewlid, Barry Summerford [security guards – uncredited]
David Cleeve, Keith Simmons [radiation suit men – uncredited]
Julia Burnett, Bruce Guest, Mark Holmes, Rosemary Jollisse, Kenneth
Thomas [control room technicians – uncredited]
Douglas Auchterlonie, Margaret Pilleaud, Roger Salter, Lionel Sansby,
Sonia Stratton [complex personnel – uncredited]
Peter Roy [frozen operator (Technic Obarl) – uncredited]
Peter Bush, Carl Edwards, Alan Evans, Brian Gear, Tim Hooper, Bruce
Hubble, David Hyde, Colin Jaggard, Simon Jones, Robert Lee, Paul Nicholson,
Bob Peters, Ken Taylor, John Telfer, Robert Tucker, Michael Wadsworth,
Roy Wadsworth [extras - uncredited]
SUMMARY
Sarah Jane finds the fossilised hand of a dead
alien whose evil essence lives on in a ring on the hand. The essence
takes possession of Sarah Jane and begins to revive the form of the
alien named Eldrad.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Final story for Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane
Smith who, after three complete seasons, was ready to move on. Working
with two of the most popular Doctors when the programme was at peak
popularity has made her the fans choice as most popular companion.
She dominates this ho-hum story, though her exit was planned to be
a Foreign Legion story in which she dies in the end. Considered to
be an inappropriate goodbye for such a popular figure, it surely would
have been better than the way she is unfairly and summarily dismissed
by the Doctor at conclusion of this story. Her Andy Pandy boiler suit
costume would haunt her for years.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1976
October
2: UK - Part One television broadcast [on BBC1]
9: UK - Part Two television broadcast [on BBC1]
16: UK - Part Three television broadcast [on BBC1]
23: UK - Part Four television broadcast [on BBC1]
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor
Who: The Television Companion pp.308-311
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker] KEYWORDS
aliens, time travel
Last Updated:
21 April, 2008
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