Cursed Doctor Who Cliffhangers Vol. 3

[@OtisNotibrus]

0:00 The Armageddon Factor: Part Five 0:21 The Mark of the Rani: Part Three (4-part re-edit) 0:27 The Time Warrior: Part Three 0:39 Terminus: Part Four 0:54 The Pirate Planet: Part Two 1:01 The Bomb (The Ark: Part 4) 1:34 The Mark of the Rani: Part One (4-part re-edit) 1:41 Battlefield: Part Two 2:05 The Deadly Assassin: Part Four 2:12 Kinda: Part One 2:21 The Mind of Evil: Episode One 2:35 The Dominators: Episode 5 2:53 The Ark in Space: Part One 3:01 The Two Doctors: Part Three (4-part re-edit) 3:08 Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode 4 3:20 Warriors' Gate: Part One 3:32 The Power of the Daleks: Episode Five 4:04 Mawdryn Undead: Part Two 4:11 The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: Part One 4:17 The Invasion of Time: Part Six 4:29 The Trial of a Time Lord: Part One (The Mysterious Planet: Part 1) 4:37 The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Four (The Mysterious Planet: Part 4) 4:44 The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Seven (Mindwarp: Part 3) 4:56 The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Eight (Mindwarp: Part 4) 5:05 The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Twelve (Terror of the Vervoids: Part 4)

[@bradphippsnz]

The Two Doctors was a six-part edit.

[@OtisNotibrus]

Oh yeah. Didn't really notice because the rest of Season 22 had 4-part re-edits. Thanks for pointing out (although I can't really edit the comment)

[@someguy3752]

3:32 is for Power of the Dalek part 4, not 5

[@bradphippsnz]

@@someguy3752 No it’s def from 5. 4 ends with Lesterson finding the production line in the capsule.

[@someguy3752]

@@bradphippsnz My mistake.

[@gabrielbrodrigues1111]

The 3rd Doctor always having a seizure in almost every cursed cliffhanger he appears is hilarious

[@floopyfloof2384]

Perfectly summarises the silurians endings

[@eliaseal331]

Pertwee Wurzell Gummage audition in action 🏆

[@minicle426]

Where his eyes seem to briefly regenerate into the Fourth Doctor's.

[@MitchQuadrupleTree]

Considering how much Tom Baker was said to have absolutely hated the K-9 prop, that smile from the end of The Invasion of Time is single-handedly the BEST acting by anyone ever.

[@AzguardMike]

theres a interview of Baker, the 3rd and the 5th talking with a BBC interviewer. Anyway the point is, in the interview, Back and the 3rd Doctor talk about women on Doctor Who. The tird Doctor was a ragging sexist, he HATED Elisabeth (Sarah Jane) To paraphrase "....my role is that of a mother hen. I have my cloak to shield the fair lady. Come along my dear, follow me and such. And then Elizabeth came along, sarah jane, with these ideas and opinions. I was against this and said, she goes or I do." When Baker was asked about a female Doctor in the future, he said, and i quote. "a female Doctor? ARE YOU MAD MAN!?!?!? Its called DOCTOR who. Not Nurse Who. Dear Lord its bad enough we let them vote. Look at how that went for the country!" Yet Baker, when Jodie "straight men need not watch my run" Whitiker took over, even Baker took to acting once more on twitter with "its about time for change and not a moment too soon." Stunning and brave, stunning and brave. Of course, the BBC purged that interview from youtube entirely.

[@TranscendentLion]

@@AzguardMikeWhat does that have to do with K9?

[@matt0044]

@@AzguardMike Can people not change their minds?

[@AzguardMike]

for the right price, Baker sure did

[@rare437]

@@AzguardMike Didn't Tom Baker say towards the end of his run "I wish my replacement luck, whoever he or she may be." or something along those lines

[@Crazy56U]

2:40 This is the fucking best one. _How do you forget where you are in relation to a volcano?!_

[@pcb1175]

Because the Doctor is a genius but also a complete idiot

[@gmann6269]

Because he's clearly drunk.

[@KentuckyWallChicken]

2:40 the sheer panic in Patrick Troughton’s eyes cracked me up so hard!

[@kaboom1129]

same

[@ThanhTriet600]

Oh my word!

[@deavacui2825]

The way his expression changes in this moment 😁 ---> 😱

[@MSDOSProject]

Ill never forget that the Battlefield cliffhanger almost killed Sofie Aldred.

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

Ikr

[@Indigo_Polarity]

Thank fuck for Sylvester and his quick thinking profanity.

[@davidwho1011]

- Perhaps you can lead us to this “hacienda?” - Of course, it’s this way… Tune in next time to find out what a hacienda is. A true cliffhanger for non-Spanish speakers! 😂

[@ShikiKiryu]

It was also a club in Manchester UK, so they're entirely in the wrong location if looking for that one.

[@paulbeardsley4095]

​@ShikiKiryu Too late for Joy Division though.

[@ShikiKiryu]

@@paulbeardsley4095 Sadly yeah, could have been New Order for the time period of the show though.

[@birdoven5754]

My god! The walk could take minutes!

[@Retroboxmedia]

To be fair, the cliffhangers in the Colin Baker Episodes resulted from editing down the original 45 min episode length to 25 minutes to fit American syndication formats.

[@meiray]

Not the season 23 ones.

[@peskybee22]

​@@meirayyeah the season 23 ones were done like that for Australian TV apparently. The actual series 23 cliffhangers usually zoomed in on Colin's face haha

[@GiratinaofFury]

The cliffhanger for Battlefield is particularly cursed, because at one point, the stunt almost went horribly wrong. In one take, Sylvester noticed the glass was bulging as the tank filled with water, and then there was a loud crack and he called for the crew to get Sophie out of the tank immediately. Had he not acted, it would have broken and someone could have been seriously injured.

[@SmallvillenerdTwo]

Pertwee has the best cliffhanger facial expressions. Meanwhile Colin Baker probably has the funniest cliffhangers coz they're so abrupt like they end the episode mid-sentence.

[@Cybermat47]

The reason Baker’s are so weird is that his first season’s stories were originally two double-length episodes, but they were edited into four regular-length episodes for other markets (I think the USA)?

[@SmallvillenerdTwo]

@@Cybermat47 Nah I know, it's funny how horribly timed some of the cliffhangers are in the 25-minute versions of his episodes.

[@rnw2739]

No he doesn't. Colins cliffhangers are all cliffhangers. The episodes were 45 minutes in length for his first season. Of course, time it at the 25 minute mark and you will be stopping mid sentence, but they were NEVER the cliffhangers.

[@SmallvillenerdTwo]

@@rnw2739 "Come on Peri let's go to Spa-" STiiiiiiiiiiiiNG OOOOOO WEEEEE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@rnw2739]

@SmallvillenerdTwo That doesn't even exist in Classic Who. What you are laughably trying to recreate is the cut 'Blackpool' line at the end of 'Revelation of the Daleks'..... yes, the END, so hardly counts as a cliffhanger and it was a post edit cut which makes the example even more weak...NEXT!

[@raymanmann8132]

6th doctor in peril :0 *cliffhanger* 6th doctor in end credits :D

[@theflickchick9850]

The one where the bug falls out of the closet was my first ever episode of classic Who and my mom could not stop laughing at my horrified befuddlement.

[@MichaelBrandon-cp8jq]

4:04 cracked me up. The slow dramatic turn to reveal a diva-collared OAP with hang-glider eyebrows and spaghetti bolognese on his balding head. And 4:20 is genuinely menacing.

[@bradphippsnz]

The Power of the Daleks cliffhanger is pretty good, considering they slaughter most of the colony in the following episode.

[@petrie911]

It goes on way too long though.

[@Christopher-le2ez]

Ja@

[@MYCHANNEL-hv1pq]

But you can clearly see how few props they have, and how they are quickly racing them back around like a pantomime

[@yama8483]

The cursed part is mostly that you can clearly see they have only 4 actual Dalek props, with every background one being suspiciously immobile because they are all very clearly cardboard cutouts and when they are going through the door there is a notable gap between the 4th and "5th" Dalek that goes through because they are just making the props go around the set behind the cameras and go through the door again but failed to coreograph properly spaced movements through the door so that this notable gap between Daleks wouldnt happen

[@blueknight07]

Gotta love the cliffhangers that have been created from random scenes

[@blueknight07]

​@@ineedausername124For the sixth doctor it's worse because his episodes were 45 minutes each but international exports of them had to be 25 minutes so they just cut it at the most dramatic shot which leads to some pretty interesting ones.

[@nick_at_knight]

Imagine what it was like to produce these behind the scenes

[@SamJones-x7q]

Big preesh on the Trial of a Time Lord compilation because that DW theme was 👌

[@Autism3.0]

I love how peter davidson just looks slightly confused

[@CeladonHairExtraordinaire]

The last few were really just Colin Baker at the Nuremberg trials

[@ParakoEPC]

4:56 nah, this was a great cliffhanger.

[@dxctr_master]

4:25 me eyeing up the roast potato left over on Christmas Day

[@thatcopkransky]

I love that you have all the trial of a time lord ones in a row

[@DayOldMeat]

1:41 was actually genuinely cursed, Sophie Aldred nearly died from the glass breaking and Sylvester McCoy had to save her.

[@blastfromthepast-o1d]

I think the actual danger involved has been somewhat exaggerated. It's not likely that she would have been hurt or electrocuted or whatever.

[@TheMultiGamerOfficial]

@@blastfromthepast-o1d She very much could've lmao.

[@blastfromthepast-o1d]

@@TheMultiGamerOfficial But that's the point. She COULD have died, but people say she NEARLY died, which means something completely different. Nearly and Could are not the same. LMFAO

[@applemask]

Well, it weren't any amount of fun, that's for sure @@blastfromthepast-o1d

[@TheDwarvenPeople]

The tank continued to fill with water even when it was meant to stop, if McCoy didn't break the glass himself then she would have drowned.@@blastfromthepast-o1d

[@paulkelly9803]

something went terribly wrong with a few of the cliffhangers in Pertwee’s Frontier in Space. they are such anti-climaxes - it looks like they got the timing wrong because shortly after the ending point there is some more compelling action. it’s just like this “why the” moments

[@Thomaas551]

There are at least two cliffhangers in that serial which are resolved by kicks

[@FalloutJack]

The one from The Mind of Evil was serious business, as the machine forced the Doctor to relive the episode, Inferno. Some of the cliffhangers from that one might be good for this, though.

[@mathplays7213]

4:17 one of best cliffhangers of all television history

[@anthonyperkins7556]

I like the first cliffhanger how the sound effect of the gun swirl mixes into the cliffhanger scream of the closing title music

[@Matheus-ki9zo]

*_DALEKS CONQUER AND DESTROY_*

[@gregoryjohnson9733]

2:55 Man that one got me as a kid lol.

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

2:12 - Me when someone tries to disagree with me.

[@natsmith303]

Those international edits of S22 were often *huge* leaps to create cliffhangers.

[@cinemagoose]

2:50 is just so iconic. I love it

[@unverifiedcontact4281]

This is the genuinely the funniest stuff I've seen in a very long time. Incredible work.

[@MagnaLynx21]

Knowing what almost happened while Sophie Aldred was in that water tank makes watching that one very uncomfortable...

[@davidsteel8324]

The S22 “bonus” cliffhangers are fatal. 😂

[@xD00TD00Tx]

“OH MY WORD”

[@dxctr_master]

2:30 me when I first step in the bath

[@FrankNFurter1000]

Given the behind the scenes issues, the Battlefield one is truly cursed!

[@jellybabiesarecool4657]

I'm waiting for The Ark in Space cliffhanger with the bubblewrap hand

[@GlennSkywalker2305]

I’m waiting for horns of nimon Pt 2

[@gregoryjohnson9733]

Waiting for the hand of fear pt 1.

[@finnsempire5671]

Jon Pertwee: Tom look out Tom Baker: thanks predecessor for your save I could’ve been done for 😊

[@Daoibhéar]

0:54 Doctor Who - The Terror of the Spermbank

[@sarcasticfury5478]

The one for Kinda is hilarious because the Doctor just looks like he has no idea what this guy is on

[@Willy_Fisher]

That’s pretty much how it was in context.

[@VerdanaTwo]

Currently making part 4: If there are any cursed cliffhangers you think should be featured, lemme know

[@jokkemursula8731]

Time-Flight, Time and the Rani and Four to Doomsday should have some fun material (such as Nyssa suddenly fainting in Four to Doomsday part 4). The Leisure Hive has some crazy stuff too.

[@gigalad3129]

This video was amazing to watch whilst picking my boogers. Thank you

[@gigalad3129]

@@Ben_boh ok

[@anothermiddleschoolburnout8816]

​@@Ben_boh Shit take

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

​@@anothermiddleschoolburnout8816They're bloody horrible mushrooms.

[@xD00TD00Tx]

@@Ben_bohoki doki

[@eliaseal331]

Colin Baker takes the biscuit again 🏆

[@gmann6269]

2:35 Troughton is hammered.

[@Whipwinder]

The last four feel almost like they keep interrupting the credits.

[@limdennis813]

Cliffhanger endings in every single classic Doctor Who episodes: End credits jumpscare

[@drguineapig8755]

4:20 is funny as hell.

[@eliaseal331]

Tom Baker era probably best end theme 🎶 🏆

[@wil2197]

That Hacienda cliffhanger has me at the edge of my seat!!!!

[@laurenkaitlyn6341]

Them Trial of a Timelord cliffhangers tho

[@troywright359]

don't be upset by the low number of views, these are awesome and they'll blow up soon

[@MrFaceHead]

I remember Ace being drowned was horrifying when I was a kid.

[@SKaVeN9798]

I may be able to explain some of those non-cliff-hanger sixth Doctor endings. JN-T wanted to make some 50 minute episodes but, when they were shown on the ABC Australia, the were cut into halves creating what has become known as the :fake cliff-hangers."

[@sinlatenightsins9657]

the nose hair at 0:49

[@metalsonic17]

4:11 the indecision!!!!

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

3:37 Thesaurus Dalek showing off.

[@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2]

You don't know how a thesaurus works

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 Then kindly enlighten me, please. I have regularly used mine for many years and am perturbed, unsettled, dusturbed, concerned and troubled to find that I have not been using it correctly.

[@shaneb.2464]

I feel the Trial of the Time Lord endings were perfectly fine - save for the second to last where the Doctor is sinking in quick sand. That could have been executed a little better.

[@pickytugboat9512]

all of trial of a time lord lol

[@soarel325]

So much Valeyard…

[@thomasavalayla792]

OH MY WORD

[@brickerytickerybuilder1111]

4:01 they’re going around in a circle

[@Robsli479]

Holy shit, what

[@Jayforeman3047]

Some of these were definitely not real, but still very believable with the music all the same.

[@BradTheThird]

Oh, I don't know. That Battlefield one seemed genuinely intriguing. And yes, I only know what it was called from the pinned comment. I tried watching all the classic era on BritBox but got bored when Turlough joined, so I never got this far. And I don't know what it is about Sylvester McCoy era clips, but I get massive CBBC vibes from it.

[@paulkelly9803]

the Colin Baker endings were also anticlimactic because the “sting” to the theme was weak and no comparison to the stings of the past

[@rnw2739]

Jon Pertwee pulled the most pathetically ridiculous faces when his Doctor was supposed to be in agony. So utterly ludicrous in fact, he looks as though he is going for gold in a gurning competition. Such laughable contortions take away any dramatic effect the story may have generated and play right into the critics' hands.

[@HazbinWho]

5:02 best one

[@Jamesalec63]

Some cliffhangers can have a unanswered plot with a connection to the next episode or future story with a hint those stories are far from being answered the doctor does often say something that often referees to an old time story which helps him solve one problem with using a tale of a old enemy he runs into?

[@adriansherlock3907]

Just do all the cliffhangers. Let’s face it, without suspending disbelief they’re all funny.

[@reubenmanzo2054]

Can someone explain what "cursed" means? I thought it meant a list of bad cliffhangers, but there are some here that were also in a list of best cliffhangers, so that can't be it.

[@collegeman1988]

No cliffhangers from Inferno or Earthshock?

[@worthbygrades]

In what situation would an invisibility cloak be considered Into a trap.

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

Some of these Sixth Doctor ones aren’t fair…..they chopped the episodes after original broadcast…..those cliffhangers weren’t supposed to be there

[@12mikecheck]

Yeh most of these were disappointing / weak cliffhangers but absolutely no way should Mawdryn Undead part 2 should be on this list …that’s a great reveal …excellent (and disgusting) make up on David Collins face. Never understood why most cliffhangers for Trial of a Timelord had to end with a zoom / close up on Colin Bakers face (although totally appropriate for part 8)

[@metalsonic17]

3:04 she revealed the location!!!!

[@ricotheskunk3062]

4:06 what episode is this spaghetti brain from?

[@someguy3752]

Mawdryn Undead Part 2.

[@TimChuma]

There is a sexy bird one I seem to remember?

[@someguy3752]

Could you be a little more specific as to what it involved?

[@TheRedandWhitehandItsbruttiyu]

😢

[@skateordie280]

Again, almost none of these are in any way "cursed". Just call them cliffhanger compilations lmao

[@fredh1720]

I think the one at the end of The Ark is fine. But the ones edited into season 22... just awful. Why did they bother?

[@OtisNotibrus]

To fit the TV time slots for foreign countries.