Talk:The Hand of Fear

Successive Story
Why is the Target novelisation succeeding story not The Deadly Assassin?


 * The books weren't published in televised order. Timrollpickering (talk) 22:50, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

"Eldrad must live!"
I removed this once before after a Google serach and a scan of my books showed nothing. I support removing it again because it seems totally unverifiable, and even if it were verifiable, it hardly seems all that notable... many lines of dialouge have become fairly infamous (No not the mind probe!, for instance).--Sean Black (talk) 21:06, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree that it doesn't seem verifiable or notable at the moment. I've just dropped a note at User talk:Davidkevin, who put it in most recently.  Let's give him a few days to see if he can find anything to back it up before we delete it — who knows, perhaps there's an entire essay somewhere on the use of "Eldrad must live" as a password at 1980s conventions! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 22:53, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It was an oral joke, not a printed one, as the point of the joke is lost in print.


 * You guys win, it gets tossed down the Memory Hole even though I know it to be a fact from personal experience and observation.


 * Davidkevin 19:00, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, well, see, "personal experience and observation" cannot be used as sources under any circumstances&mdash;See No original research.--Sean Black (talk) 19:06, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Just jumping into this five years late! In the DVD documentary 'Changing Time' Liz Sladen comments that this is a catchphrase that she was often asked to say at conventions. So while it may still not be notable, it could actually be cited.--ThePaintedOne (talk) 13:45, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

DVD release
Doctor Who online have been told by there contact at 2|entertain that this story is being released on DVD. This is probably because this was Sarah Jane Smith's last episode until School Reunion, with the exception of The Five Doctors and Dimensions in Time. No special features have been revealed yet. It's release date is 24th July

longest serving companion
Is Sladen still the longest serving? PMA 08:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I thought the longest serving companion was Jamie McCrimmon 12thdoctor 07:09, 2 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Nope. In terms of continuous appearances (and not guest appearances years later) it's Sarah Jane Smith: December 1973-October 1976. Jamie McCrimmon: December 1966-June 1969. Tegan Jovanka: February 1981-February 1984. 2A0A:EF40:1267:7101:D1E6:A72D:8A6:26D6 (talk) 04:40, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Release date
BBC Shop says [here] that the DVD will be released on July 24, as does DWM. However, the article says July 31. Should this be changed? -- Jawr256 11:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I bought it yesterday so yes. ;) Morwen - Talk 12:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)