4N. The Hand of Fear

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

432. Part One                      02.10.76   6.10pm - 6.35pm  10.5M/24th/---
433. Part Two                      09.10.76   5.50pm - 6.15pm  10.2M/29th/---
434. Part Three                    16.10.76   6.05pm - 6.30pm  11.1M/20th/62%
435. Part Four                     23.10.76   6.00pm - 6.25pm  12.0M/19th/---

DR CARTER: Rex Robinson (1-2); KING ROKON: Roy Skelton (1,4); INTERN: Renu Setna (1); TOM ABBOTT: David Purcell 91); ZAZZKA: Roy Pattison (1); GUARD: Robin Hargrave (1); PROFESSOR OWEN WATSON: Gkyn Houston (2-3); DRISCOLL: Roy Boyd (2-3 - uncredited 3); MISS JACKSON: Frances Pidgeon (2-3 - uncredited 3); ELGIN: John Cannon (2); ELDRAD: Judith Paris (3-4), Stephen Thorne (4). UNCREDITED: COMPUTER VOICE: Roy Skelton; HOSPITAL NURSE: Libby Ritchie (1); PATH LAB TECHNICIANS: John Delieu (1), Derek Suthern (1); DOUBLE FOR DR CARTER: Max Faulkner (2); SECURITY GUARDS: Michael Dewlid (2), Barry Summerford (2); RADIATION SUIT MEN: David Cleeve (2), Keith Simmons (2); CONTROL ROOM TECHNICIANS: (all 2) Julia Burnett, Bruce Guest, Mark Holmes, Rosemary Jollisse, Kenneth Thomas; COMPLEX PERSONNEL: (all 2) Douglas Auchterlonie, Margaret Pilleaud, Roger Salter, Lionel Sansby, Sonia Stratton; FROZEN OPERATOR (TECHNIC OBARL): Peter Roy (4); EXTRAS: Peter Bush (1), Carl Edwards (1), Alan Evans (1), Brian Gear (1), Tim Hooper (3), Bruce Hubble (1), David Hyde (1), Colin Jaggard (1), Simon Jones (1), Robert Lee (2), Paul Nicholason (2), Bob Peters (1), Ken Taylor (1), John Telfer (1), Robert Tucker (2), Michael Wadsworth (1), Roy Wadsworth (3)

STORY:

The TARDIS lands on twentieth century Earth near a quarry. An accident leaves Sarah unconcious in the quarry, and clutching a stone hand. The hand belongs to an executed Kastrian criminal called Eldrad, whose essence lives on inside a blue ring.

The hand possesses Sarah, who takes it to the nearby Nunton Nuclear Research and Development centre where it soaks up the radiation from the reactor core and regenerates into a complete being - Eldrad.

Eldrad persuades the Doctor and Sarah to take him, even though he takes on the appearance of a female, back to Kastria to reclaim his heritage. But 150-million years have passed, and Kastria is now a dead planet.

Eldrad attempts to regenerate his race, but the final King of Kastria destroyed the race banks in case Eldrad should return. The Doctor and Sarah leave a furious Eldrad to his solitary fate. Inside the TARDIS the Doctor receves a summons from Gallifrey - he must return, and he is not allowed to take Sarah with him ...

STUDIOS: Television Centre Studio 8, Ealing Film Studios

LOCATIONS: Oldbury Nuclear Power Station, Avon; ARC Quarry, Crowhall, Avon

WORKING TITLES: The Hand of Death, The Hand of Time

NOTES: Sarah leaves at the end of the story

NOVELISATION: The Hand of Fear Terrance Dicks

VIDEO: The Hand of Fear