The Hand of Fear is the second serial of the 14th season of the
British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first
broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 2 to 23 October 1976. The
serial was the last regular appearance of Elisabeth Sladen in the role
of Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who.The serial is set at an English
nuclear power station and on the planet Kastria. In the serial, the
alien Kastrian Eldrad (Judith Paris and Stephen Thorne) seeks to
regrow his nearly-obliterated body with radiation so he can enact
revenge on his people.Millennia ago on the planet Kastria, a traitor
and criminal named Eldrad is sentenced to death for his crimes,
including the destruction of the barriers that have kept the solar
winds at bay. The pod containing the criminal is obliteratedâ€"but his
hand survives. In the present day the Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith
arrive in the TARDIS at a quarry and are caught up in an explosion.
Sarah is rendered unconscious, but in that state, she makes contact
with the fossilised hand, its ring placing her under its control. The
Doctor takes her to the local hospital, where the mesmeric power of
the hand becomes more complete and both Sarah Jane and a pathologist
called Dr Carter are brought under its control. The Hand of Fear Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter