I remember being really freaked out by this as a kid. It became the subject of many a ghost story in my family when we'd go camping...'The Dead Hand'...ooooooo.
Hand gets darker because it had turned to stone. The radiation from the room rejuvenates the hand and brings it to life. It becomes Eldrad when the missiles shot from fighter planes are absorbed into the creature.
I used to watch this all the time when I was a kid. I would hear the music and come running even if I was in bed I would get up and beg mom to let me watch.
Yeah if you mean the hand, animatronics is so the way to go when you want to do something like that, Hollywood kept it going for years untill like 5 years ago when all miniatures and animatronics were fazed out by CG and it all just looks so shit now.
This is from 1976 just at the beginning's of when the BBC where wanting to make Doctor Who more like Star Trek in certain way's and introducing the infant computer technology of that era after the poorer showing of the technology in stories such as Revenge Of The Cybermen which was partly due to time and budget constraint and led to an improvement drive by the production crew then Mary Whitehouse and her television clean up campaign put the boot into the programme. i stopped watching until 1980.
I remember being really freaked out by this as a kid. It became the subject of many a ghost story in my family when we'd go camping...'The Dead Hand'...ooooooo.
TheSkyhorse82 5 days ago
i remember shitting my pants to this
plasticspastic201 2 months ago
God bless you Elizabeth... RIP x
PhilJay06 9 months ago 3
Elisabeth Sladen RIP.
harrytwinotter 9 months ago
that mechanical way she sits and draws her arms to her knees...just another Sarah characteristic that made her so memorable.
diddymuck 11 months ago 2
Hand gets darker because it had turned to stone. The radiation from the room rejuvenates the hand and brings it to life. It becomes Eldrad when the missiles shot from fighter planes are absorbed into the creature.
th3limit 1 year ago
She was bloody tasty then, and more than 30 years on, I still would.
Widmerpool99 1 year ago
o_O now i wanna watch it to see what happens
NightcrawlerLuver 1 year ago
how pretty Sarah is and actually how frightening the hand is. And how tupperware-ish the ...er ....tuperrware is.
algildea 1 year ago
I used to watch this all the time when I was a kid. I would hear the music and come running even if I was in bed I would get up and beg mom to let me watch.
NOLIMIT69NOLIMIT2000 1 year ago
ahh those were the days when the cliff hanger made kids piss the bed - excellent.
BNCA70 1 year ago 2
you can tell when the fake hand is removed and a real actors hand is used (Imagine by green-screen) because the Hand gets Darker and Darker :)
APEMADNESS 2 years ago
@APEMADNESS it was transforming
SushiTrain09 1 year ago
@APEMADNESS I think it's getting darker because it's defrosting, maybe?
rjconnolly64 1 year ago
@rjconnolly64 sorry pressed the dislike on accident. :/
Fengelo63 9 months ago
Jesus, what's Sarah wearing? 8-0
Miguelohara563 2 years ago
@Miguelohara563 A crime against nature
DoctorWhoRocks10000 1 year ago
I remember watching this as a 6 year old youngster back in '76. I shat my pants and hid behind the settee!
RP61973 2 years ago
ripped off 'monkeys paw'
jannonymous 2 years ago
i had nightmares for years about the HAND!!-still do and im 37.
kenpoman100 2 years ago
Eldrad must live!!!!
robb21572 2 years ago
awesome episode
agentsmithmememe 2 years ago
how i would love to see that outfit hanging i the attic in the new sarah jane adventures, she looks sexy cute in that costume.
thanqualhighseer 2 years ago
probably sold it to get back to croydon, lol!
billyshoepack 2 years ago
well that would have made the train trip more interesting!
i think she would just have called the brigadear and got a free ride home.
thanqualhighseer 2 years ago
Sarah Jane and Jo Grant were the sexiest companions
lerxt42 2 years ago 3
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i am sarah jane i luv my looks in this episode
foxsy7 2 years ago
And I'm the Loch Ness Monster.
borgduck 2 years ago 4
my goodness sarah was very pretty!!
still is :D
furyplum44 2 years ago
absolutly amazing
jadaiyuki12 2 years ago
That looks so real.
Computer animation - eat your heart out!
979708 3 years ago
Yeah if you mean the hand, animatronics is so the way to go when you want to do something like that, Hollywood kept it going for years untill like 5 years ago when all miniatures and animatronics were fazed out by CG and it all just looks so shit now.
17175386 3 years ago
Yes, I meant the hand. I just does not look animated.
979708 3 years ago
I think that outfit makes Sarah Jane look like a little girl.
kittygrrlhk 3 years ago
The funny thing is she was about 28 with that was filmed.
17175386 3 years ago
Professor Carter: "YES...., Just like Andy Pandy!"
979708 3 years ago
I love how Sarah-Jane climb's down that ladder and through the door without even glancing at the "Warning; Extreme Radiation" signs :P
Berrypoint 3 years ago
Sarah Jane was so hot in that jumper...
raydeen2k 3 years ago
Good cliffhanger
JonnySpazzbourne 3 years ago
Blimey, that still gets the heart racing...
tonythetyger99 3 years ago
good old oldbury power station!
RADS190 3 years ago
Old.
jacklamonby 3 years ago
This is where I got my fear of spiders.
celshader 3 years ago
What is that outfit SJ is wearing....
GoRob 4 years ago 4
i kinda like it lol
sarahjanerulez 4 years ago 3
Sarah Jane
joseslucky4monkeybal 4 years ago
100% C U T E! :P I think this is one of the first episodes I ever saw, back in good ol' 1982.
seibervideo 3 years ago
This is from 1976 just at the beginning's of when the BBC where wanting to make Doctor Who more like Star Trek in certain way's and introducing the infant computer technology of that era after the poorer showing of the technology in stories such as Revenge Of The Cybermen which was partly due to time and budget constraint and led to an improvement drive by the production crew then Mary Whitehouse and her television clean up campaign put the boot into the programme. i stopped watching until 1980.
colin306 3 years ago
An outfit by Andy Pandy I THINK, Not sure.
AbbiNixdorf 3 years ago
noooooooooooo!...not the tupperware !!!!
fatuesque 5 years ago 16
You can store anything in Tupperware, even disembodied hands. :P
mainkcar 4 years ago 19
Tupperware: keeps the evil fresh!
ReginaMac 3 years ago
i saw this when i was a relli young, scared the shit outta me!
crevasse 5 years ago 6