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Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

1976·100 min

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

Directed by Lennie Mayne

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When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...

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Elisabeth Sladen

Sarah Jane Smith

Kastrian Eldrad

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Philip Hinchcliffe

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Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear (1976) is about when the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...

Who directed Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear?

Lennie Mayne directed Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear (1976).

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