The Hand of Fear

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Story Code: 4N / Season 14 UK Airdate: 2 Oct to 23 Oct 1976 Doctor: Tom Baker
First airings by location UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite Previous Story / Next Story

This story aired in the following known countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

United Arab Emirates Nov 77? PAL
Australia Apr 78 PAL
Ecuador 78? NTSC
United States* June 1978 (test)/Nov 78 NTSC
Chile c May 79 NTSC
New Zealand Aug 79 PAL
Mexico Nov 79 NTSC
Nigeria Dec 79 PAL
Brazil 79? PAL
Guatemala 79? NTSC
Venezuela 79? NTSC
Brunei Feb 80 PAL
Costa Rica Feb 80 NTSC
Hong Kong Aug 80 PAL
Canada Aug 80 NTSC
Nicaragua Aug 80 NTSC
Gibraltar 80? PAL
Swaziland Oct 81 PAL
Honduras? ? NTSC
  • This story was dubbed into Spanish.
  • This story was chosen by Time Life Television to "test" the US market for Doctor Who; the serial aired in an omnibus "movie" format in New York in June 1978 (and later in Florida). With a positive response, Time Life commenced their country-wide promotion of the new series...
  • (*) The other US date is based on the airdates for WTEV, which was the first US station to screen the initial package of 98 Tom Baker episodes.


Reissue

  • The story was reissued in the mid-1980s, during the THIRD WAVE of sales.
Korea (South) Jun 86 NTSC
Barbados/Saint Lucia Sep 86 NTSC
Trinidad & Tobago Oct 86 NTSC
Saudi Arabia late 86? NTSC


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