Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

1976 · 100 min · ★ 7.6 · Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure

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...

Directed by Lennie Mayne · Written by Dave Martin

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