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In Sarah Jane Smith’s last adventure with the Doctor, she goes through a bit in the first two episodes. One, she is buried under a pile of rubble, when she and the Doctor accidentally stray near a quarry that is been dynamited. Two, she is possessed by a strange fossilized hand that is uncovered during said blasting that leads her to say “Eldrad must live.” Three, she has lots of fun going around firing a blue light from a ring at anyone who tells her to stop. And four, are you ready for this… she locks herself and the hand in the outer chamber of the radioactive core at the Nunton Power Complex. I’ve heard of A Boy And His Dog, but A Girl And Her Hand? Hmm… But as Liz Sladen (Sarah) was with the series for three seasons, script-editor Robert Holmes thus made that part of the story central to Sarah.

The Doctor hypothesizes that the hand, originating from a silicon-based lifeform, is alive and is using radiation to regenerate itself. That does explain why Sarah comes out of the radiation chamber alive and well despite being exposed to enough radiation to kill a school of whales. But who or what is Eldrad?

There is a scene when the director of Nunton, Professor Watson, phones his wife and tells her in a calm voice that he may be delayed. He lies that there is nothing wrong and to kiss the children for him. This is when it looks like the facility might undergo meltdown. At the end of the call, his expression is one having resigned to the fact that he might well die before the day is over. This is Glyn Houston’s best part in his role as Watson.

The crystalline costume for Eldrad is quite a beaut, which is clearly a blue-gray body suit with crystals and metal pieces attached to resemble a clump of jewels at various points. Judith Paris’s portrayal of Eldrad retains the alien nature of this being, down to the voice. As Eldrad has been an alien exiled from Kastria and sentenced to obliteration, something that didn’t succeed, the obsession of paranoia, in not trusting people, is well-acted. And the sight of a hand moving by itself isn’t something one sees everyday. As Sarah says, “Careful, that’s not as ‘armless as it looks.” Harmless, armless,… right.

The one thing that may throw fans is the farewell between the Doctor and one of his longest traveling companions. In contrast to the Third Doctor being shattered when Jo leaves him, here, the Fourth Doctor’s not too emotional goodbye is a bit questionable. Then again, Tom Baker and Liz Sladen reworked that part of the dialogue themselves, so who knows?

The scenes in the nuclear plant, mainly episodes 2 and 3, are the bright points of The Hand Of Fear, as it’s fast-moving and tense. Indeed, location filming was done at the Oldbury Nuclear Power Station in Avon, where the people there were enthusiastic in helping out the production team. Things slow down in the last episode, but it’s an all right story.

With the 10th Doctor’s reunion with companion Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 in 2006’s “SCHOOL REUNION” Releasing Sarah’s final adventure with the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) as 1976’s Hand of Fear ends with a touching and surprisingly warm departure as the Doctor and Sarah part company. It’s no accident that the new series sought out her return, SJS, the plucky journalist portrayed by Elisabeth Sladen is one of the best-loved companions, leastwise before ROSE TYLER’s appearance. First appearing as a women’s libber in the 3rd Doctor’s Time Warrior, in which she mistakes him for a malevolent traitor. SJS was introduced as a strong character that wasn’t going to need the Doctor’s rescuing, much like Rose, although invariably evolving into a character that needed the Doctor’s rescuing anyway. Sarah’s met the first 5 Doctor’s in “The 5 Doctors,” she’s had a X-mas special with K-9 ( a Christmas present from the Doctor, K-9 & Company) and word is that a children’s spin-off is now in the works for the pair.

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After the Doctor and Sarah Jane mistakenly land in a present-day (70’s) quarry (an amusing location considering all the quarry filled alien worlds presented over the years) and the pair are caught up in an explosion. Sarah is rushed to hospital, clutching a stone hand . But when the hand possesses Sarah’s mind, a chain reaction begins, resulting in a confrontation on the frozen planet of Kastria.

This story arc is typical of Tom Baker’s Doctor, the affection that the Doctor and Sarah have for one another really bring together the episode. Both over the top portrayals of the power-hungry and paranoid Eldrad are very memorable as are the mind-zapped catch-phrase “Eldrad must live!”

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