History Recap / DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear

->''"This isn't Hillview Road. I bet it isn't even South Croydon. Ohhhh, he blew it!'' (''says to a dog'') ''Hey. Hey. You. He blew it!"''

The one with talking rocks. Also the one where we say goodbye to a beloved character, [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors but not]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion forever]].

* FreezeFrameEnding: The serial ends with a freeze frame on Sarah wandering the streets of what definitely isn't South Croydon (later revealed to be Aberdeen), amused at the Doctor getting his destination wrong yet again.

* TaughtByExperience: Well-used to travelling in the TARDIS and not liking the idea of helping Eldrad, Sarah channels her inner DeadpanSnarker when it suddenly lurches in flight.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Eldrad can use radiation to regenerate a body! That's a useful trick.

* FashionDissonance: Sarah Jane's iconic "Andy Pandy" dungarees - a style of dress adopted by women in Summer 1976 as a result of a freak heatwave and an invasion of vicious, biting ladybirds, requiring breezy but full-body coverage ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_1976_(Europe) really]]). In particular, note the drawstrings around Sarah's ankles, keeping the trouser legs sealed from insects that would have been able to get up bell-bottoms. The heat, the ladybirds and the fashion trend were all swept away by a sudden downpour of rain that swamped Britain just as the first episode of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora The Masque of Mandragora]]" was being broadcast on television.

The one with talking rocks. Also the one where we say goodbye to a beloved character, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion but not forever]].

The TARDIS lands in a quarry - it's not a quarry posing as an alien planet, but an ''actual quarry'' for a change - as the TARDIS is back in modern-day England. The Doctor thinks it's all very nice that there's a big siren to welcome them and a guy way in the distance seems to be happily waving at them. The quarry, of course, immediately explodes in a routine procedure, and Sarah Jane is buried under the rubble.

-->'''Sarah:''' ''(pops into the control room, eating a banana)'' "Off course again, are we?"

Before being rescued, Sarah touches what seems to be a fossilized hand and is taken over by the spirit of Eldrad, a Kastrian criminal punished by disintegration -- but whose hand has survived, and whose spirit lives on inside the ring on its finger. Sarah takes the ring and goes to a nearby nuclear research station, with the Doctor and friends arriving a few minutes later. She uses the energy to recreate Eldrad's body, absorbing all available nuclear energy. The Doctor and the resident lead scientist, Dr. Watson, convince the RAF to bomb the place (after evacuating everyone). Eldrad isn't bothering, and appears in the form of a very beautiful, very confused woman. When she learns that hundreds of millions of years have passed since she crash-landed on Earth, she asks the Doctor to take her back in time, but he refuses. He does, however, agree to take her home to Kastria in the present. But when they arrive, there is only a dead planet and a mocking message from the last king of the Kastrians. Eldrad (now in a male body) is furious, turns out to be evil after all, and forces the Doctor to take him back to Earth so that he can rule there instead. The Doctor and Sarah trip Eldrad using the Doctor's scarf and the crystalline being falls into a crevasse and shatters.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Eldrad falls down a deep black pit after being tripped up with the Doctor's scarf. Being a being of stone, the Doctor suggests he may have survived. Before him, the nuclear reactor worker that tried to kill the Doctor, though he wasn't really a villain.
%%* DistantPrologue

* {{Corpsing}}: Eldrad starts having a VillainousBreakdown and begins MilkingTheGiantCow, ChewingTheScenery, and generally foaming at the mouth to extents that are aesthetically indefensible, and when he suddenly raises his voice, Creator/TomBaker giggles before turning it into an in-character GrinOfAudacity.

* TheParalyzer: Eldrad's ring can knock out people for a time ranging from a few seconds to about an hour.

Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin. This serial first aired October 2-23, 1976.

* StunGuns: Eldrad's ring can knock out people for a time ranging from a few seconds to about an hour.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Eldrad falls down a deep black pit after being tripped up with the Doctor's scarf. Being a being of stone, the Doctor suggests he may have survived..
** Before him, the nuclear reactor worker that tried to kill the Doctor, though he wasn't really a villain.
* DistantPrologue

The one with talking rocks.

* SequelHook: The call from Gallifrey leads directly into the next episode.

* TaughtByExperience: Well-used to traveling in the TARDIS and not liking the idea of helping Eldrad, Sarah channels her inner DeadpanSnarker when it suddenly lurches in flight.

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Arriving back in modern-day England, the TARDIS lands in an actual quarry for a change. The Doctor thinks it's all very nice that there's a big siren to welcome them and a guy way in the distance seems to be happily waving at them. The quarry, of course, immediately explodes in a routine procedure, and Sarah Jane is buried under the rubble.

-->'''Doctor:''' "Sarah, I want you to look into my eyes."
-->'''Sarah:''' "OH NO, NO THAT'S NOT F__" ''(falls into trance)''

* LivingRelic: Eldrad was exiled and executed millions of years ago. After his resurrection, he forces the Doctor to transport him to his home world. The Doctor so; taking him to Kastria in the present day. Once there, Eldrad discovers that all life on the planet died out millennia ago.

* TripTrap: Eldrad comes charging after the Doctor and Sarah Jane, fails to see a thick multicolored scarf stretched across his path and stumbles into a BottomlessPit.

* LivingRelic: Eldrad was exiled and executed millions of years ago. After his resurrection, he forces the Doctor to transport him to his home world. The Doctor so; taking him to Kastria in the present there. Once there, Eldrad discovers that all life on the planet dies out millennia ago.