The Hand of Fear

(Series 14, Episodes 5-8)

Summary: Nutjob Eldrad is sentenced to obliteration but their hand ends up in a quarry on Earth, where it is found 150 million years later by one Sarah Jane Smith.  After absorbing radiation from a nuclear power plant, Eldrad regenerates into an androgynous bejewelled trickster who wins the Doctor’s sympathy.  The Doctor is sorely disappointed when he returns Eldrad to Kastria and they promptly morph into a lumpy, ranting man, so he concocts a cunning plan involving his scarf.  Sarah gets inexplicably narky with the Doctor and then regrets it when he gets a call from the Time Lords…

Watch it because: Until we meet again, Sarah.

Original Air Date: 2 – 23 October 1976.

Doctor: Tom Baker.

Companions: Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen).

Writer: Bob Baker & Dave Martin.

Director: Lennie Mayne.

Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe.