If you're really interested in watching this episode, it is included on SWV's THE VEIL Double disc pack.

Thanks to a bunch of film being speeded up, two cars in the Swedish winter wilderness are zooming around curves and interrupted with the sound of a crash.   After going black, the screen reveals the wreck of two cars.   One of the cars has a dead man within.  The second has a couple:  the woman is fine and escapes but the man has his hand trapped by some wreckage.  As the flames grow nearer to the second car's gas tank, the man has no other choice but to use his skills as a surgeon to remove his hand (thankfully his companion/wife is a nurse).   He escapes and then realizes his career is ruined.  But, then again, there is a perfectly good hand on the dead man in the other car.....

Yup, welcome to "Hands of Orlac" territory.  In case you're not familiar with the story, allow me to briefly describe it:

A man--whose profession requires mastery of both hands, gets into something in which he loses one or more hands.   Somehow he is given a transplant.  At first, the new hand seems normal....until weird things start happening.  The new hand seems to have a life of its own.   The recipient of this hand starts to go nuts, has his family/close relations disbelieve him until finally he either 1) cuts off his new hand, or 2) the new hand kills him/frames him/requires him to prove his innocence.

Got it?  Good.  Despite its relative obscurity, this story is more famous than it seems, spawning more adaptations than one would realize.  From an episode of Night Gallery ('Hand of Borgus Weems'...what a goofy name) to movies of the same name to the Jeff Fahey flick called 'Body Parts' which redid a lot of the material in a very goofy manner that should have changed its title to "Hands, Feet, and Lower Pelvis of Orlac...Yes, Even the Naughty Bits."

The episode is really no different.   The doctor covers up his before-the-fact grave robbery by pretending his hand was merely crushed and tending to it in secret along with his wife/nurse.   Wait, wouldn't the police notice that one of the hands of the dead man was missing?  And even if they dismissed that, wouldn't the crushed remains of a hand in the doctor's car sorta be noticeable?  Sure, it caught fire, but something would remain of it...bones, charred flesh.....?

Anyway, the doctor finally realizes that the hand has taken perfectly and aside from a noticeable skin tone difference in the new hand (kudos!!  Scientific accuracy earns brownie points), it behaves as well as the other one does.    Ready to start his life anew and getting ready to purchase some gloves to hide his crime, the doctor is visited by a detective who tells the couple that they were sort of lucky:  the man in the other car was a WANTED CRIMINAL!!   This freaks the doctor out a little but his wife tells him to forget it.  In a very good story, this would be the point where the 'is the doctor imagining this or is it happening' subplot to add tension.

We are not that lucky.  This ain't Oliver Stone's The Hand, here.

The doctor starts behaving oddly.  His new hand almost strangles his wife while dancing.   He starts hitting on women in bars after work and has this urge to kill them like the dead man.   And he starts killing people during surgery.  Not once, but FIVE TIMES.

Then the malpractice suits come in, and the doctor commits suicide after being disgraced.  The End.

No, wait, there's more.

Leaving the malpractice suits behind, the doctor becomes more and more nuts until finally he gets in a fight with his hand.  Now, you would think you can fight off an alien hand by simply using the other one, but the doctor isn't that smart and when his wife finds him, he is dead...with his new hand firmly around his neck.  While this sounds creepy, it looks really really dumb.   If the doctor was dead by strangulation, which would cut off the blood to his brain and indirectly kill his involuntary bodily functions (like the heart), wouldn't this kill the hand as well?  Why would it still be around his neck?   Isn't the hand sentient?  Is the hand a representation of justice?   The spirit of the murderer?   Fate?   Unfortunately, this isn't even hinted at so all of us are allowed to guess and my guess is that nobody really thought that much ahead about this.

If it was me, I would have the ending shot be of the hand releasing its grip, then either crawl around the body of the doctor like a spider (still attached to the arm) while the wife shrieked in horror or have it try to drag the body of the doctor towards her in a vain attempt to get her now that the doctor is taken care off.  But nooooo.....have the hand congeal around the doctor's neck.  *Sigh*  And it could have been easy, too, given the show's obvious low budget.

And the show's outro is one of the more entertaining:  Lon Chaney Jr gives us this unrelated spiel about fate and love and death while holding this fire poker with a hand-shaped handle.   He stares down at the handle and, in a cutaway shot, the hand (now obviously a hand dipped in some ash to make it look vaguely withered) moves its fingers.  Not in a menacing 'I'm going to grab you' way, but in a 'Hi, how are you, let me perform a card trick of some kind' which causes Lon to drop it with a shriek of horror.  Two things that ruin this almost-cute-and-sick humor:

--The poker's hand is grossly enlarged so that it looks real when we see it in the close-up shot.  However, this really ruins the ending.  Why would a fire poker have a large latex human hand at the end of it?  For what real reason?

--When Lon throws down the poker with a shriek, he doesn't do it as 'I've just seen something supernatural...AHHH!' as much as 'I'm so drunk I'm hallucinating, AHHHH!'

BOTTOM LINE:  The outro is funny enough to boost the story's rating, but it's still gutter material:  One and a half Stars out of Four.   Interesting to watch but not scary in the least.