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Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

7.619761h 40mMovieScience FictionDramaAdventure

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...

DirectorLennie Mayne

WritersBob Baker·Dave Martin

ProducerPhilip Hinchcliffe

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Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around December 11, 1976. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.