Episode 52: The Hand of Fear

Doctor Who: the World Enough and Time podcast

In this first episode of 2023 - Happy New Year! - Andy and Alex are reunited in Auckland, New Zealand and finally sit side-by-side again while watching and podding about Who. They choose a cosy favourite - Elisabeth Sladen’s swansong The Hand of Fear. But will the story live up to the pressure of being the first they’ve watched together since 2019? Alex is quick to question whether Watson should be shouting the odds and whether he’ll keep his job after the, erm, 'firing missiles at a nuclear reactor' incident, while Andy is amazed that Kastrian electrics are good enough to last 150 million years. Both are keen to understand Eldrad’s original plan to go back in time in the TARDIS. Is it to stop themselves from being obliterated, and, if so, wouldn’t there be two Eldrads? We also learn a lot about a couple of supporting characters who don’t make it on screen: Loreen Watson and Mary Ann Driscoll. While IRL Andy muses when exactly Tom Baker dated the story’s make-up artist Judy Neame. Elsewhere Alex details The Curse of Dungarees, there’s an 80s Master quiz and Lou Jameson just ‘wants to be’. All this and an acapella rendition of The Sandman. With this 52nd episode we are really spoiling you. Next Time: Frontios