Story: The Hand of Fear
Written By: Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Length: 4 Episodes
Year: 1976
"The Hand of Fear" is not the best story really. Its padded and dull at times, but the ending 10 minutes are important...for Sarah Jane leaves us. She threatens to leave the Doctor for she notices he isn't paying attention to her complaints, she packs up some items, and is about to leave, though we can tell its an empty threat. But she leaves the room, and the Doctor receives a message from Gallifrey, he must return home. Humans are not allowed on Gallifrey.
When she returns with junk collected, the Doctor tells her she can not come with him...he didn't even realize she had made the empty threat. Sarah is totally hurt by the idea and not sure how to handle it. Its all very well done and underplayed. The Doctor takes her to her home to Croydon, and she leaves the TARDIS for the last time, for many years to come.
Its the end of a successful period of Doctor Who, the Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen were a great team up, definitely one of the top team ups of the TARDIS, up there with Pertwee and Manning or Troughton and Hines. Its unfortunate her final story isn't the best writing, and her final performance includes the all to often used in sci-fi "possesed/mind controlled/not quite herself character" act. Goodbye Sarah Jane...until next time.
NEXT TIME: Return to Gallifrey
Written By: Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Length: 4 Episodes
Year: 1976
"The Hand of Fear" is not the best story really. Its padded and dull at times, but the ending 10 minutes are important...for Sarah Jane leaves us. She threatens to leave the Doctor for she notices he isn't paying attention to her complaints, she packs up some items, and is about to leave, though we can tell its an empty threat. But she leaves the room, and the Doctor receives a message from Gallifrey, he must return home. Humans are not allowed on Gallifrey.
Its the end of a successful period of Doctor Who, the Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen were a great team up, definitely one of the top team ups of the TARDIS, up there with Pertwee and Manning or Troughton and Hines. Its unfortunate her final story isn't the best writing, and her final performance includes the all to often used in sci-fi "possesed/mind controlled/not quite herself character" act. Goodbye Sarah Jane...until next time.
NEXT TIME: Return to Gallifrey
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