List of audio cliffhangers

The following list of cliffhangers gives a brief summary of each audio drama cliffhanger.

Big Finish

Main range

1-25

• The Sirens of Time

• Part One - The Seventh Doctor and Elenya are shot by Drudgers.
• Part Two - The Fifth Doctor is trapped outside his TARDIS. He proclaims "The Time Lords really do want me dead!".
• Part Three - The Sixth Doctor is swallowed by the Temperon.

26-50

• Doctor Who and the Pirates

• Part One - Evelyn is trapped in a barrel on a burning ship.
• Part Two - The Sixth Doctor begins singing.
• Part Three: The Doctor is thrown off Red Jasper's ship.

• Master

• Part One - The Seventh Doctor appears outside John Smith's house.
• Part Two - The Doctor is threatened by Death.
• Part Three - Jade reveals her true identity.

51-75

• The Wormery

• Part One - The Sixth Doctor realises that Bianca's isn't on earth.
• Part Two - Iris begins singing under the influence of the Psychic worms.
• Part Three - The Doctor points a gun at Iris, saying "You my dear, will have to die.“

• Terror Firma

• Part One - Davros asks the Doctor where Davros is.
• Part Two - The Doctor remembers Gemma and Samson.
• Part Three - The French Resistence are revealed to be Daleks.

76-99

• The Kingmaker

• Part One - Peri and Erimem are separated from the Fifth Doctor by two years.
• Part Two - Erimem comes to the conclusion that she and Peri have to kill the princes.
• Part Three - Mr. Seyton reveals that he is William Shakespeare

• The Gathering

• Part One - After a long talk with a waiter, Katherine Chambers decides to continue with her plans. She approaches Tegan, pulls out a gun, and tells Tegan to come with her. She then says a phrase commonly associated with the cybermen: "You have nothing to fear".

101-125

• The Haunting of Thomas Brewster

• Part One - Brewster's mother lifts her veil.
• Part Two - The phantoms successfully time travel to the year 2008.
• Part Three - Brewster steals the TARDIS.
• Part Four - Brewster steals the TARDIS (again).

• Kingdom of Silver

• Part One - Magus Riga gives Etin a gift: a deactivated Cyberman!
• Part Two - The Cybermen begin waking up from their tombs.

• The Magic Mousetrap

• Part One: The Seventh Doctor enters the attic encountering Ace and Hex and doesn't know who they are
• Part Two: The Doctor finds the Celestial Toymaker in Ludovic Comfort's cupboard
• Part Three: Ace and Queenie Glasscock fall from a cable car.

• Enemy of the Daleks

• Part One: The Doctor realises that he has to make the attrocity that happens on Bliss happen.
• Part Two: Whilst the Doctor witnesses the birth of the Kiseibya, the Daleks enter the infirmary and prepare to exterminate Hex.
• Part Three: The Doctor tries to persuade Toshio Shimura that the Kiseibya will continue to breed and replace the Daleks.

126-149

• Castle of Fear

• Part One - The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa are forced to enter Stockbridge Castle.
• Part Two - The demons are revealed to be Rutans.
• Part Three - Nyssa is absorbed by the Rutan Drone Leader. The Doctor fails to escape the Castle before the Drawbridge closes.
• Part Four - The Doctor and Nyssa are caught in the explosion of the Rutan Ship.

• Robophobia

• Part One - The Seventh Doctor activates thousands of dormant robots. The Super Voc states that he has ten seconds to explain the situation or he will be killed.
• Part Two - The Doctor explains that the entire situation is set-up.
• Part Three - The Doctor is strangled by a murderous robot.

151-175

• The Curse of Davros

• Part One - Davros tells the Daleks that he has plans for the Sixth Doctor.
• Part Two - Flip discovers that Davros and the Doctor switched minds.
• Part Three - Napoléon's army marches towards battle with the Daleks.

176-200

• Last of the Cybermen

• Part One - Jamie and the Sixth Doctor find dozens of Cybermats bearing down on them.
• Part Two - Zennox reveals she wants to put Zoe inside the Cyber-Planner.
• Part Three - The Cybermen arrive at the citadel and kill Zennox. The Cyber-Leader then announces that the Cybermen will win the war.

201-TBA

• We Are The Daleks

• Part One - The Daleks gloat that they've kidnapped Melanie Bush.
• Part Two - Mel is about to be destroyed by children playing Warfleet.
• Part Three - Mel gains the Dalek Factor.
• Part Four - Celia Dunthorpe declares herself Prime Minister of the Daleks.

• Criss-Cross

• Part One - The Doctor and Constance are near a time bomb about to explode.
• Part Two - The Waveform manifests.
• Part Three - Robbie Flint allies himself with the Waveform.

• Planet of the Rani

• Part One - Constance tried to stop Template:Redmond but end up into the Portal along with her then closes, leaving the Sixth Doctor and Pazmi.
• Part Two - Raj Kahnu encountered Constance Clark.

• Dead to the World - The Doctor tells the TARDIS that he knows she has been trying to reach someone. He helps the TARDIS go to this mysterious woman.
• Aquitaine

• Part One - Nyssa is approached by Sergei Akunin.
• Part Two - The Doctor realises that "the Aquitaine, and everyone aboard, will be destroyed in a little over... two hours."
• Part Three - The time fracture "opens up".

• The Peterloo Massacre

• Part One - The Doctor realises that the dates provided by the TARDIS are incorrect; he's in Manchester on 15 August 1819!
• Part Two - The Doctor tells Tegan that one of the most brutal events in Earth's history is about to begin: the Peterloo Massacre.
• Part Three - Nyssa confronts Hurley, telling him that he killed both Cathey and her child.

Companion Chronicles

Series 3

• The Doll of Death

• Part One - Jo is inside a building that is exploding backwards in time. She is unable to escape before the building implodes.

• The Transit of Venus

• Part One - Ian sees a hand waving at him from the ocean. Somehow, the hand influences Joseph Banks to begin chanting "You must join you friends!", as he pushes Ian off the side of the ship.

• Resistance

• Part One - Polly realises that one of the soldiers is her uncle, Randolph Wright.

• The Magician's Oath

• Part One - Mike Yates and Jo are cornered in Diamond Jack's house. He begins to use his weather powers to freeze the house's doors and windows preventing their escape. He then menacingly welcomes them to his home.

Series 5

• The Guardian of the Solar System

• Part One - Sara leaves the House after she was brought back to life from Robert.

• Peri and the Piscon Paradox

• Part One - Zarl approaches Peri menacingly.
• Part Three - The Sixth Doctor is disintergrated by the Piscon Police.

Series 6

• The Rocket Men

• Part One - Barbara is thrown off Platform Five to plummet to her death. Without thinking Ian jumps after her.

Series 7

• The Time Museum

• Part One - Ian Chesterton and Pendolin are trapped in a recreation of the TARDIS. They can either stay inside and have their memories eaten or go into the unknown.

• Project: Nirvana

• Part One - Sally Morgan laughs at the dead body of Jimmy Colborn.

• The Last Post

• Part One - Emily Shaw dies.

• Return of the Rocket Men

• Part One - Steven decides to save his younger self, knowing that the masked man that had saved him all those years ago had died.

• House of Cards

• Part One - Miss Fortune traps Ben in her casino's most famous attraction, the Game of Life. Ben has a fifty percent chance of being disintegrated!

• The Scorchies

• Part One - The Scorchies sing a song about how they killed the Doctor.

Special Releases

• The Revenants

• Part One - Ian meets the Wisfornal, and discovers that he's the First Doctor.

The Lost Stories

Series 1

• The Nightmare Fair

• Part One - The Doctor accepts the Celestial Toymaker's offer.

Series 2

• Crime of the Century

• Part One - Ace's guide reveals himself as a member of the militant group of rebels at war with the government of Kafiristan. He prepares to shoot Ace.
• Part Two - Ace learns that Valentin was apparently attacked by insects. She hears laser blasts outside.
• Part Three - Sayf Udeen is killed by a stray bullet, leaving Ace to defeat the Metatraxi in a one on one duel.
• Part Four - Raine decides to join the Doctor and Ace. They decide to investigate Margrave University.

Series 3

• The Elite

• Part One - The High Priest is alerted to the Fifth Doctor's presence. He orders the Doctor be brought to him.
• Part Two - The High Priest enters his "throne".
• Part Three - Nyssa is revealed to be brain-washed by the Elite.

• Hexagora

• Part One - The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa arrive on Luparis, they find Tegan's ex-boyfriend Alex and he has no memory of her.
• Part Two - Alex reveals himself as an alien.
• Part Three - The Doctor reluctantly agrees to marry Queen Zafira.

• The First Sontarans

• Part One - The Doctor finds Commander Lork of the First Sontaran Fleet in a cell beneath the tavern. Lork proclaims "No one imprisons a Sontaran officer and lives, for this you die!".
• Part Two - Barclay reveals himself as a Rutan and attacks the Doctor.
• Part Three - The Kaveetch refugees are vaporised. Peri's ship is shot down. Lork says that he will take the Doctor and Meredid Roath to Sontar, where they will "face justice".

The Fourth Doctor Box Set

• The Foe from the Future
  • Part One - The churchbell falls on the Doctor, Leela and Charlotte.
  • Part Two - Jalnik reveals his face to the Doctor and Charlotte.
  • Part Three - A Pantophagen towers over the Doctor and Leela.

The Early Adventures

Season 1

• An Ordinary Life

• Part One - The Doctor abandons Steven and Sara in 1950s London.
• Part Two - The copies mass.
• Part Three - Sara is surrounded by copies of her friends.

Season 2

• The Yes Men

• Part One - The Second Doctor and Polly discover Meg Carvossa was murdered.
• Part Two - Meg Carvossa shoots Bangate and then levels her gun at the Doctor.
• Part Three - Yes Men storm out of the sewers.

• The Forsaken

• Part One - The Doctor, Jamie and Ben discover the corpses of the hotel staff in a locked room.
• Part Two - The creature begins killing the Doctor.
• Part Three - The search party discovers the days old corpse of Captain Freeman.

• The Black Hole

• Part One - Constable Pavo says the Doctor and his companions are trespassing, the penalty for which is death.
• Part Two - Pavo reveals to Victoria that he is the Monk.
• Part Three - The Seeth begin to emerge and attack the habitat.

• The Isos Network

• Part One - Zoe encounters three Cybermen.
• Part Two - Jamie is knocked to the ground by a man and finds the barrel of a gun in his face.
• Part Three - The Doctor, Jamie, Zoe and the Ison security team find the Cybermen's travel pod bearing down on them.

The Third Doctor Adventures

• Prisoners of the Lake

• Part One - Jeff is killed by the Prosecutor, which then approaches the Third Doctor and Jo.
• Part Two - The Doctor loses contact with Jo and Freda Mattingly.
• Part Three - The Doctor is attacked by a Dastron.

• The Havoc of the Empires

• Part One - Janos Perel's spaceship explodes, killing Zalrick.
• Part Two - Jo finds traces of Halgonite, a substance used to create bombs, on the Doctor's hands.
• Part Three - An explosion releases the Ato Eels.

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

Series 2

• The Auntie Matter

• Part One - The Doctor and Mabel Dobbs are caught by Basset Manor's defences: a sonic disintegration field strong enough to turn their brains to custard. Meanwhile, Romana meets Reginald's aunt, who immediately begins stealing Romana's body.

Series 3

• The Crooked Man

• Part One - The Crooked Man kidnaps Laura Corbett's son.

Doom Coalition

• The Eleven - The Doctor and Liv depart Gallifrey, following the Eleven.
• The Red Lady - Helen Sinclair decides to travel with the Doctor.
• The Galileo Trap - The Doctor makes the decision to walk into the Eleven's trap.
• The Satanic Mill - The Doctor says "I think I could do with a holiday".

Bernice Summerfield

• The Poison Seas - Irving Braxiatel informs Bernice that the Fifth Axis have taken over the Braxiatel Collection.

Jago & Litefoot

• The Similarity Engine - Litefoot partners with Sanders to investigate a vampire.
• The Ruthven Inheritance - Leela appears at Litefoot's door.
• The Man at the End of the Garden - Leela discovers the location of a time fracture that could destroy the planet Earth; the New Regency Theatre.
• Swan Song - Dr Payne escapes from the future into present day London.
• Chronoclasm - Jago and Litefoot both receive messages telling them to go to an empty warehouse. When they arrive their they find that they've been summoned by a mysterious man, Professor Claudius Dark.

Special Releases

• The Light at the End

• Part One - Bob Dovie enters the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS. Surprised by its interior, Bob exclaims "This is impossible". The TARDIS is destroyed.

The Worlds of Big Finish

• The Archive - Abby and Zara leave Kronos Vad's History of Earth Volume 36,379 in 1814.
• The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber - Evan Morgan purchases History of the Earth Volume 36,379.
• The Lady from Callisto Rhys - Bernice Summerfield appears seemingly out of thin air. She decides to tell Vienna how she got there.