List of audio cliffhangers

From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
RealWorld.png

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

Big Finish

The Monthly Adventures

Main article: /The Monthly Adventures

The Companion Chronicles

Main article: /The Companion Chronicles

The Lost Stories

Series 1

  • Mission to Magnus
    • Part One - The Doctor is knocked unconscious as Peri is taken away and a bomb has just been detonated.
  • Leviathan
    • Part One - The Doctor and Peri discover the world they're on is inside the hold of a gigantic spaceship.
  • The Hollows of Time
    • Part One - The Doctor is clinging on to the side of a spaceship for dear life.
  • The Song of Megaptera
    • Part One - Peri is cornered by the Caller. The Doctor is shot by Greeg.
    • Part Two - The Doctor tells Peri that they have to materialise within the whale to allow it to de-materialise.
    • Part Three - Peri and the Doctor start to disappear as Megaptera time dives.

Series 2

  • The First Doctor Box Set
    • Farewell, Great Macedon
      • The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (1) - Cleitus wants to use the Doctor and his friends as scapegoats.
      • O Son, My Son (2) - Alexander the Great prepares to kill himself so that Cleitus should not die alone.
      • A Man Must Die (3) - Alexander throws a spear at Ian.
      • The World Lies Dead At Your Feet (4) - Alexander arrests the Doctor and his friends for the death of Hephaestion.
      • In The Arena (5) - Seleucus warns Ian that he will break Ian's neck in their wrestling match.
  • Thin Ice
    • Part One - Hhessh was to eliminate Ace as an intruder.
    • Part Two - The Doctor, Ace and co are being pulled aboard the Ice Warrior spaceship.
    • Part Three - Upon learning about the Doctor's plans to send her to the Prydonian Academy, Ace says she'll never trust him again.
  • 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.
  • Animal
    • Part One - Achterberg takes aim at Ace.
    • Part Two - A spaceship arrives at the university.
    • Part Three - The Doctor discovers that the Numlocks have put a force field around the university to stop people getting in or out.
    • Part Four - Raine decides to stay behind to come to terms with her father's death.
  • Earth Aid
    • Part One - The Doctor opens a safe in a ghost ship and finds Raine.
    • Part Two - Ace is told that the enemy ship is on a collision course with the grain silo the Doctor is in.
    • Part Three - Raine and the Doctor have been locked in the grain silo with the Grubs.

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 - Thane orders the Doctor's extermination and Nyssa complies.
  • Hexagora
    • Part One - Upon exploring the Lupara, Tegan encounters Mike Bretherton who says he isn't Mike.
    • Part Two - Nyssa and Tegan encounter an insect claiming to be Mike.
    • Part Three - The Doctor agrees to marry Queen Zafira.
  • The Children of Seth
    • Part One - Byzan captures the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan for interrogation but suggests wiping their minds instead.
    • Part Two - The Doctor plugs himself into the defence network to gain information but all he can see is numbers and it overwhelms him.
    • Part Three - Tegan observes a broadcast where the Doctor apparently claims to be Seth.
  • The Guardians of Prophecy
    • Part One - Ebbko deactivates the Tomb of Malador's invisible plasma field while Auga opens it using one of the amulets from the casket. Mura tells the guards to take aim at the Doctor.
    • Part Two - Prophecy warns the Guardians that Malador has risen.
    • Part Three - Malador amplifies the Lament of the Melkur and transmits it to every Melkur in the universe.
  • Power Play
    • Part One - The power plant begins to suffer a meltdown.
    • Part Two - Victoria Waterfield, under the control of Leiss, is about to kill the Doctor.
    • Part Three - The Doctor and Victoria are thrown into a temporal void and Victoria can't see the Doctor anymore.
  • The Masters of Luxor
    • The Cannibal Flowers (1) - The TARDIS crew think that the food that they have been offered has been poisoned.
    • The Mockery of a Man (2) - The Perfect One tells Susan that one of them must give him enduring life.
    • A Light on the Dead Planet (3) - The Doctor and Ian find the source of the signal.
    • Tabon of Luxor (4) - The Perfect One falls over the trip wire, which causes the fluid in the vial which controls the atomic weapon to reach the danger level.
    • An Infinity of Surprises (5) - Ian's life essence is being taken from him, nearly killing him. The Perfect One aims to become human.
  • The Rosemariners
    • Part One - Armed Rosemariners fall in behind the Doctor and Arnold Biggs when they agree to help.
    • Part Two - Jamie is being enveloped into the Rosa Toxicara.
    • Part Three - Rugosa declares that once the antidote is his, nothing will stop the galactic rule of the Rosemariners.

Series 4

  • The Dark Planet
    • The City of Silence (1) - A fog is invading the TARDIS console.
    • The Shadow People (2) - The Doctor realises that the light in the city will blind them.
    • The Doomed Planet (3) - A shadow has entered the city of light and attacks Barbara.
    • The Caves of Night (4) - The Doctor lies helpless in the path of a laser.
    • The Sun Bomb (5) - The Doctor discovers that the Director will let Ian burn when the rocket launches, and allow Vicki to be sent into the heart of the sun.
  • The Queen of Time
    • Part One - Hecuba tells Jamie and Zoe to find the clock which controls the Doctor's metabolism.
    • Part Two - Strapped into a rocket, Jamie and Zoe are about to be launched.
    • Part Three - Zoe is ageing rapidly.
  • Lords of the Red Planet
    • Part One - An Ice Warrior bursts into the room the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are in, shooting at Zoe, knocking her unconscious, and takes aim at the Doctor.
    • Part Two - Aslor in his distress turns to attack Zoe.
    • Part Three - Zaadur gives the Doctor the option of saving the life of Jamie and Zoe or saving the Earth from Invasion.
    • Part Four - Aslor approaches the Doctor to carry out the order to kill him.
    • Part Five - Zoe gets caught in the bombs set off to destroy Gandor.
  • The Mega
    • Part One - The Doctor and Jo encounter the Mega.
    • Part Two - The Doctor and Jo discover thousands of Mega at Prince Cassie's castle.
    • Part Three - The Prime Minister has been killed and Cassie tells Britain to disarm or he'll destroy London.
    • Part Four - Cassie says that Jo serves no purposes and orders a Mega to kill her.
    • Part Five - Mike realises that none of the people he thought were killed where actually dead, they were all hidden in a bunker in the sewer.

Series 5

  • Nightmare Country
    • Part One - The Vodyani surround the Doctor and the shipwreck survivors to take what they need from them.
    • Part Two - Tegan has been killed trying to get into the reality machine to help the Doctor.
    • Part Three - The Vodyani has escaped the reality machine into the TARDIS.

Series 6

  • Return of the Cybermen
    • Part One - A Cyberman emerges from hiding.
    • Part Two - The Cybermen plot to knock Voga into a collision course with it's sun.
    • Part Three - The Cybermen prepare for launch, giving the Doctor and Kellman only ten minutes to return.

Specials

  • The Fourth Doctor Box Set
    • The Foe from the Future
      • Part One - The church bell 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.
      • Part Four - Osin orders the guards to shoot the Doctor.
      • Part Five - With Leela sucked into the time vortex, and the time machine destroyed, the Doctor admits that there isn't anything he can do to stop the Pantophagen.
    • The Valley of Death
      • Part One - The Doctor and Valerie Carlton fall in the spaceship, whilst Leela and Edward Perkins encounter a god-like being.
      • Part Two - Godrin incapacitates the Doctor and co upon landing in London.
      • Part Three - Godrin exposes the Doctor and co to the light of the Luron sun to kill them.

The First Doctor Adventures

Volume One

  • The Destination Wars
  • The Great White Hurricane
    • The Coming Storm (1) - Barbara tells Ian that one of the worst natural disasters in New York City is about to take place - the Great White Hurricane.
    • The Frozen City (2) - O'Connell tells Susan that Patrick Ellis is a killer before turning his gun on them both.
    • The Killer in the Snow (3) - Patrick and Susan try to escape across a frozen river alongside lots of others when the ice starts breaking apart.
    • River of Doom (4) - The Doctor tells Ian and Barbara that he thinks he's found the answer to returning them home.

Volume Two

  • The Invention of Death
    • A World Without Fear (1) - Barbara is struck by a spear.
    • The First (2) - Susan and Barbara witness the first death ever seen on Ashtallah.
    • The Dying Art (3) - Ian discovers that Sharlan has been killing their people with Barbara's blood and they throw him from a window.
    • The Invention of Life (4) - The TARDIS lands in 19th century China and the travellers have to hide when Samurais come looking to execute the illegal “barbarians”.
  • The Barbarians and the Samurai
    • The Forbidden Land (1) - Takagi Mamoru discovers the Doctor's false guise and sentences him to death for making a fool of him.
    • Barbarians Among Us (2) - Susan is discovered in Okada Shumei's house and is taken away with Yoshita Hiroshi.
    • Power Play (3) - The Doctor and Mamoru are given an ultimatum by the Shogan: surrender or their castle will be besieged and everybody inside slain.

Volume Three

  • The Phoenicians
    • The Purple and the Gold (1) - Ian is placed on the ramp of King Pygmalion's new ship that is set to be slid down.
    • The Hireling (2) - Aiyaruc enters the Doctor's cell with orders from King Pygmalion to see blood spilled.
    • Legends and Lies (3) - Everyone waits to see the Doctor perform an act of God.
    • The Bull's Hide (4) - The Doctor refuses to heed his companions' warnings as the TARDIS flies out of control and explodes.
  • Tick-Tock World
    • The Graveyard World (1) - The travellers see a ghost of Ian from the future telling them that they will all die here.
    • The Time Ship (2) - The Doctor is swallowed whole by a Xesto.
    • Death in Time (3) - The purge begins as thousands of Xesto come stampeding from afar.

Volume Four

  • Return to Skaro
    • The Towers of Skaro (1) - The Daleks, still alive in their city, monitor Susan and Jyden from concealment.
    • The Hidden Enemy (2) - Tryana reveals that she's been working with the Daleks and introduces the mutant Dalek Supreme.
    • Friend or Foe? (3) - The Dalek Supreme is placed in its casing and awakens the Dalek army, all crying “Death to the Thals!”
  • Last of the Romanovs
    • The Shattered Pane (1) - Susan and Barbara lose the TARDIS on the cusp of a Soviet civil war.
    • The House of Special Purpose (2) - The Doctor offers his services to Tsar Nicholas II.
    • The Execution Order (3) - While returning to Ipatiev House, Ian is unaware that Makerenkov has received the signal to execute the Romanov family.
    • The Waiting Cellar (4) - While preparing to move on, the TARDIS loses all power.

Volume Five

  • For the Glory of Urth
    • For the Glory of Urth (1) - While the Doctor is able to hide Susan's alien genetics from the human's machine, he is unable to hide himself; while he is taken away, Ian and Barbara are scanned and they also register as alien.
    • A Place of Angels (2) - Ian, trying to get away, opens a hatch expecting a route to the outside world but starts getting dragged out into space.
    • The Toxicity of Dissent (3) - Mummy Martial reveals to the Doctor that she sent Susan to the invaders ship while she's unaware that she's harbouring a disease that will result in all their deaths.
    • Flowers of Iron (4) - Susan hunts for a buzzing noise in the TARDIS and discovers what she believes to have been the real cause of their problems.
  • The Hollow Crown
    • The Winter of Discontent (1) - Ian is taken down in a swordfight and Susan is abducted.
    • The Play's the Thing (2) - William Shakespeare is arrested for treason and sent to the Tower of London, under threat of execution.
    • The Drums of War (3) - Ian and Barbara are caught in a crossfire and Barbara is seriously injured.
    • The Hollow King (4) - After agreeing to stay for a while, the TARDIS launches by itself and the Doctor surmises that a great power is taking control of it.

The Outlaws

The Demon Song

  • The Incherton Incident
    • Part One - The Doctor and Dodo are caught in an explosion.
    • Part Two - Sanderson knows that the Doctor travels in time and space.
    • Part Three - Dodo and Lia Halloran find the dead bodies of Jennifer Dalton before being threatened at gunpoint by Sanderson.
    • Part Four - The Doctor fades away inside the TARDIS.

Fugitive of the Daleks

  • Part One - The Daleks arrive on Perpetuity Station, searching for the Doctor.
  • Part Two - The Doctor warns Vicki away from entering her room, insisting that a monster that infiltrated the TARDIS is trapped inside.
  • Part Three - The Doctor is hit by an arrowhead and starts acting up, repeating "Infiltrate and Kill".
  • Part Four - Leaving the Robot Doctor on Vitros, Vicki goes to her room to release who she believes is the real Doctor only to find Dodo in there.
  • Part Five - Vicki faces down the Dalek Supreme, only for the real Doctor to emerge from out of it, gleeful at his deception.
  • Part Six - The Doctor leaves his robot duplicate to become the Abbot of Amboisse.

The Second Doctor Adventures

Beyond War Games

  • The Final Beginning
    • Part One - The Second Doctor enters the damaged TARDIS and is held at gunpoint by Catrona.
    • Part Two - The Doctor shouts at the Time Lords, demanding they tell him why they have returned him to Skaro, when the smokestacks following them become Daleks.
    • Part Three - The Doctor, Catrona and Silas enter the Dalek city.
    • Part Four coda - Catrona mutates into a Dalek.
  • Wrath of the Ice Warriors
    • Part One - Driving to a nearby viewpoint, an Ice Warrior fires at the Doctor and Sheena.
    • Part Two - The Doctor, The Brigadier and Sheena are surrounded by Ice Warriors.
    • Part Three - The Ice Warriors leave Earth, setting course for Mars. Lady Zelanda informs the Doctor and Sheena of her intention to invade the earth, once her conquest of Mars is completed.
    • Part Four coda - Celestine is revealed to be the Dalek Emperor.

James Robert McCrimmon

The Third Doctor Adventures

Volume One

Volume Two

  • The Transcendence of Ephros
    • Part One - The Doctor discovers that Galatax plans to extract the energy of Ephros when it explodes.
    • Part Two - Jo falls down the hole.
    • Part Three - Mother Finsey revealed that she used to travel with the Master.
  • The Hidden Realm
    • Part One - The Doctor and Jo are surrounded by a flock of magpies.
    • Part Two - Stephanie Andrews find her husband Peter but he now says that he is Hugo Martinez.
    • Part Three - Zim says that it's time to begin transferring Hans Vogel into the Doctor.

Volume Three

  • The Conquest of Far
    • Part One - The Dalek scout ship the Doctor has stolen is fired upon by the Daleks.
    • Part Two - Jickstar reveals that the Daleks have created a giant Robotisation transmitter dish on Far with enough power to Robotise the entire Earth Alliance fleet.
    • Part Three - Delralis tells Jo that when the Doctor arrives he'll be walking into a trap.
  • Storm of the Horofax
    • Part One - The Doctor realises that Paul Hardy and a set of marines have been removed completely out of time.
    • Part Two - Arianda announces that she will start a Horofax invasion.
    • Part Three - Jo is kidnapped by the Horofax and taken through time.

Volume Four

  • The Rise of the New Humans
    • Part One - The Doctor believes that the Master is behind the medical facility but the Monk reveals himself as the chief administrator.
    • Part Two - The Monk tells the Doctor that he's infected Jo with a deadly virus in order to force him to improve Dr Kurdi's treatment.
    • Part Three - Jo says to the Doctor and the Monk that they both have to die as she becomes a New human.
  • The Tyrants of Logic
    • Part One - The Cybermen arrive to collect something.
    • Part Two - The Cyber-Leveller emerges from its case and releases Cyberfog. A Cybermat chokes the Doctor.
    • Part Three - The Cybermen arrive at the Schaeffer institute to process the humans.

Volume Five

  • Primord
    • Part One - Liz Shaw shows the Doctor that she's working on Stahlman's ooze and that she's keeping a Primord in her lab.
    • Part Two - Liz reveals that she is a Primord and soon the Doctor will be too.
    • Part Three - Liz and the Doctor have made the Primords less susceptible to bullets and heat, Liz wants to make everyone in England a Primord.
  • The Scream of Ghosts
    • Part One - The Doctor and Benton are attacked by the Noise.
    • Part Two - The Doctor is been abducted.
    • Part Three - Warren has sent his white noise broadcast but in doing so he is killing the Doctor.

Volume Six

  • Poison of the Daleks
    • Part One - The Doctor, Jo, Benton and the Brigadier get transmatted to another planet and encounter a Dalek.
    • Part Two - The Brigadier and Benton are being attacked by Varga plants.
    • Part Three - Jo runs from a Slyther.
  • Operation: Hellfire
    • Part One - Jo sets off an alarm which releases a gas. Daisy predicts that the Doctor will change the course of the war.
    • Part Two - Daisy tells the Doctor that the Nazis will be crowned the kings of all creation.
    • Part Three - Davenport orders the Doctor to be killed by Jo.

Volume Seven

  • The Unzal Incursion
    • Part One - The Doctor, the Brigadier and Liz cling onto the TARDIS console as a desperate effort to escape the controlled UNIT soldiers and something explodes.
    • Part Two - The plane that the Brigadier, Liz and the Doctor are escaping in is shot down.
    • Part Three - Cherilyn Dankworth's masters, the Unzal, order her to mask their incoming arrival as they begin their incursion.
    • Part Four coda - Now in a mental institution, broken minded and amnesiac, Dankworth starts uttering "You will obey me".
  • The Gulf
    • Part One - Something evil starts banging on the outside of the Spindrifter and makes its way inside.
    • Part Two - Laurel is discovered to have killed Jesko when a creature advances on the Doctor, Sarah, Marta Malvani and Lynette.
    • Part Three - The Doctor is engulfed by the toxic sea.

Volume Eight

  • Conspiracy in Space
    • Part One - The Draconian travel pod carrying the Doctor, Jo and Ruji are beseiged by two more pods.
    • Part Two - Lady Zinn murders the Grand Widow, plotting to frame Jo and Ruji. On White Rock, the Eyes track the Doctor and Emerald Lindstrom, plotting the Doctor's destruction.
    • Part Three - The Doctor inadvertently gives Emerald the secret to construct a weapon capable of destroying Draconia and she leaves her mind probe to drain his mind completely.
  • The Devil's Hoofprints
    • Part One - The Doctor and Sarah Jane follow the hoofprints in the snow when they're encircled by gun-totting locals.
    • Part Two - Looking for Sarah Jane, the Doctor instead finds Chilton, a century before they previously met and who doesn't recognise him.
    • Part Three - The Doctor's meddling calls forth the creature from hiding.

The Annihilators

  • Part One - The Doctor and the Brigadier are watched by the Greshtrenor, who discuss their plans regarding the destruction of humanity and the threat that the Doctor and UNIT pose to it.
  • Part Two - The Doctor and Sergeant Sinclaire are cornered by the Greshtrenor substance.
  • Part Three - The Greshtrenor observe the arrival of the Second Doctor and Jamie. The Greshtrenor Leader commands that everything in the area is to be rendered inert.
  • Part Four - Liz and Jamie are cornered by DCI Walker, who reveals that she and her men are part of an alien race named the Helt. She gives the command that they are to be executed, as no one must know of their presence.
  • Part Five - The Greshtrenor Leader believes the Second Doctor is a spy, working for the Helt and advances on him with the intent to kill.
  • Part Six - Having fired blindly in the dark, the Brigadier discovers from Jamie that he hit and killed the Second Doctor.

Kaleidoscope

  • Part One - The Doctor tries to get through the Flight Lieutenant Waxman when he suddenly turns wild and throttles him.
  • Part Two - The nanobots within Waxman emerge during his autopsy and swarms.
  • Part Three - Commodore Hurley places the Doctor under arrest for high treason.
  • Part Four - The Doctor and Sarah Jane are awake in a mansion in Siberia and are greeted by Sokolov.
  • Part Five - Sokolov orders Daphne to employ the first untested device on Sarah.

The Return of Jo Jones

  • Supernature
    • Part One - The local widlife besiege the cottage Jo and Dr Lorna Holmes are using as cover.
  • The Conservitors
    • Part One - The Doctor is submitted to neutralisation.
  • The Iron Shore
    • Part One - Solomun, in communion with Jo, suddenly turns hostile.

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

Main article: /The Fourth Doctor Adventures

The Fifth Doctor Adventures

The Fifth Doctor Box Set

Wicked Sisters

  • The Garden of Storms: Leela and Abby are trapped with the Smoke creatures after the Doctor and Zara teleport away without them.
  • The Moonrakers: The Doctor agrees with Leela that Abby and Zara's flagrant misuse of their powers has to end.

The Lost Resort and Other Stories

Forty: Volume 1

  • Secrets of Telos
    • Part One - Nyssa and Tegan are chained to a railing in the path of a staggering Cyberman.
    • Part Two - Tegan lets slip the Doctor's previous defeat at the Cybermen's hands.
    • Part Three - Vansom's hybrids catch Nyssa, Tegan and Morton.
    • Part Four - The Doctor slips through time again.
  • God of War
    • Part One - Freed from the ice, Grand Marshall Xasslyr, learns of Mars' demise and declares his intent to claim Earth anew before opening fire on the Viking settlers.
    • Part Two - The Doctor slips through time again.

Forty: Volume 2

  • The Auton Infinity
    • Part One - Tegan and Sergeant Janet Wharry spot the Autons standing over the killed UNIT soldiers while the Doctor, Turlough and Captain Ted Mears happen upon the Master's TARDIS and set off a booby trap.
    • Part Two - Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart unveils himself as the Master, having done away with Tegan and Turlough and severed the interior of the Doctor's TARDIS.
    • Part Three - Turlough and the Brigadier find the future Doctor's body in the Nestene's machine, whilst the past Doctor with Tegan realises his mind is in an Auton duplicate and arms himself on it's orders.
    • Part Four - The Master impatiently instals the Doctor into the vortex driller's engines, ignoring his pleas that the Auton body can't sustain it and it causes multiple rapid shifts in his timestream to start occurring.
    • Part Five - The Doctor realises the Nestene force could fuse with the vortex driller and advance on Gallifrey to fuse with the Matrix to potentially gain omnipotence.

Conflicts of Interest

  • The Edge of the War
    • Part One - An aged version of the Count appearing and takes LaChappelle off with him. The Doctor asks Nyssa for an explanation.
    • Part Two - The Doctor becomes confused after realising that the Count is not a Time Lord.
    • Part Three - Tegan demands the Doctor and Nyssa to take her away from France after Armand Barbier's death after the invasion.

The Sixth Doctor Adventures

Water Worlds

Purity Undreamed

  • The Mindless Ones
  • Reverse Engineering
    • Part One - Killian Holm places Mel in the reversion machine and starts rapidly ageing her body, promising only to stop if Patricia McBride surrenders information she doesn't have.
  • Chronomancer
    • Part One - Having had her bigotted views ousted by the Doctor and Hebe, Patricia runs into Havash Khavûl, who decides she can be of use of him.
    • Part Two - Patricia's interfering with Tallon's time suit removes Hebe from history.

Purity Unleashed

  • Broadway Belongs to Me!
  • Purification
    • Part One - Patricia takes her time meddling spree to Cambridge, 1929.
    • Part Two - In a fit of madness, Patrica severs the Doctor's temporal tether, sending the TARDIS into an uncontrolled freefall.
  • Time-Burst
    • Part One - Deposited in the future, the Doctor discovers that he's left Mel in the path of an oncoming flood that kills hundreds in Sheffield in 1864.
    • Part Two - Hebe is restored to the timeline, but she and Ron are both hostile towards the Doctor and Mel, holding them at gunpoint in the name of 'Purity'.

Purity Unbound

  • Girl in a Bubble
    • Part One - Hebe's proximity to the TARDIS begins to restore her memories of the original timeline.
    • Part Two - Purity catches the Doctor, Mel & Hebe trying to rescue Elise and opts to prepare a special prison for them.
  • The Corruptions
    • Part One - A Corruption of Mel kills Mr Peabody before turning toward Mel.
    • Part Two - The Doctor's plan to cause a fatal temporal feedback in Purity's suit to undo her damage to time overloads the TARDIS and causes it to explode.
  • The Wrong Side of History
    • Part One - Intending to use the Doctor's TARDIS to scour all potential futures in search of her perfect world, Purity inadvertantly sets Khavûl and his Gentry free from their temporal limbo.

The Seventh Doctor Adventures

  • Dominion
    • Part One - The Other Doctor, Klein and UNIT observe a giant head floating over London.
    • Part Two - The Seventh Doctor and Raine find the portal back to Earth as the lava-spiders start flying back the other way towards them.
    • Part Three - The Doctor realises his alleged future self is, in fact, the Master.

Silver and Ice

  • Bad Day in Tinseltown
    • Part One - General Polly Juno activates the dormant technology in the tinsel, turning everyone wearing it into Cybermen.
  • The Ribos Inheritance
    • Part One - King Kari is informed of the Doctor's arrival on Ribos and is warned he may be a threat.
    • Part Two - The Doctor is transmatted straight to King Kari, who asks him to help quell the revolution against him.
    • Part Three - The key and lock fail to end icetime and, believing the Doctor to have decieved him, the Duke of Hishtar signals his assault to commence.

Sullivan and Cross - AWOL

Far From Home

  • Operation Dusk
    • Part One - Marion Johnston abducts Harry and demands at gunpoint to hear everything he knows about 'Operation Dusk'.
    • Part Two - The Doctor, Harry and Georgina Stevens are ordered to switch off their light lest it be seen by the Nazis, while it's their only protection against the Vashta Nerada.
  • Naomi's Ark
    • Part One - Unable to signal a sign of non-hostility, the planet below fires a missile at the ship Naomi is boarded.
    • Part Two - The Doctor's TARDIS is unresponsive due to prior damage, meaning the Doctor can save neither Naomi or Queen Maylee's children.

The Eighth Doctor Adventures

Main article: /The Eighth Doctor Adventures

The War Doctor

The Ninth Doctor Adventures

Series 1

Ravagers
  • Sphere of Freedom: Audrey Mohinson directs the Doctor's TARDIS towards a neutron star and the Ninth Doctor discovers it's being composed of millions of life forms ready to devour him.
  • Cataclysm: In her past, Audrey fires her temporal weapon at the Ravagers, intending to devolve them, but only makes them stronger as the Doctor observes and realises that the coming catastrophe started here.
Old Friends

The Tenth Doctor Adventures

Dalek Universe
Dalek Universe 1
Dalek Universe 2
Dalek Universe 3
  • The First Son - The Doctor projects a distress call through his mind while Daleks advance outside.
  • The Dalek Defence - The Doctor and Davros are brought before the First Movellan, Mark Seven.

Novel Adaptations

  • Love and War
    • Part One - Ace confesses to Jan that she loves him as a siren sounds, signaling the start of an attack.
  • The Well-Mannered War
    • Part One - Jafrid turns to shoot the Doctor before incoming missiles kill him himself.
    • Part Two - Romana deduces that they've landed right in the centre of the devastation and that everybody on Metralubit will soon be destroyed.
    • Part Three - Romana and K9 find that everybody in the city has vanished.
    • Part Four - To evade the Black Guardian, the Doctor uses the TARDIS' emergency unit, flying himself, Romana and K9 out of the universe, possibly forever.
  • Theatre of War
    • Part One - The Doctor, Ace, Lannic and Fortalexa are attacked by statues of themselves.
    • Part Two - The ship carrying the Doctor, Ace, Lannic and Fortalexa is shot at.
    • Part Three - Aronholt tells the Doctor that everything he's deduced about the machine is completely wrong.
  • All-Consuming Fire
    • Part One - Mrs Pendersly spontaneously combusts in front of the Doctor and John Watson.
    • Part Two - One of the inhabitants of Ry'leh request the Doctor, Watson and Sherlock Holmes' help.
    • Part Three - The Doctor, Benny, Holmes and Watson leap through the window, at risk of having their atoms blown apart if they mistime their jump.
  • Cold Fusion
    • Part One - The Fifth Doctor and Adric are surrounded by soldiers and sentenced to execution.
    • Part Two - The patient's body suddenly regenerates.
    • Part Three - The Doctor resolves to discover who is responsible for the terrorist attacks and stop him.
    • Part Four - The Seventh Doctor and Adric watch ghosts cover the entire planet.
    • Part Five - Before they can go and help the Doctor, more soldier transmat in, blocking Adric and Roz Forrester from escaping.

The Audio Novels

  • Scourge of the Cybermen
    • Part One - Akira Bea discreetly unscrambles the security footage after the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith leave to reveal the image of a Cyberman.
    • Part Two - The Cyberman punches through the hull of the seabase and inexplicably drops dead.
    • Part Three - The Doctor admits that he too has been exposed to the radiation capsules in the sabotaged suits.
    • Part Four - Akira admits that he's actually a Cyberhunter and was responsible for the radiation sickness.
    • Part Five - The Cybermen break into the sea base.
  • Watchers
    • Part One - The Fourth Doctor and Adric discover they are within a mass of timeships trapped within the time vortex and the Doctor muses that now, they cannot leave either.
    • Part Two - Adric is forced to work in the gally of the Nalgren vessel with the other teenage slaves.
    • Part Three - The Doctor's party is ensnared by a squad of Daleks.
    • Part Four - The Priest decries the arrival of Milady's TARDIS and the chamber errupts into anarchy.
    • Part Five - Milady seals the time bubble around the God TARDIS, trapping the Doctor inside it with the Daleks.
  • Emancipation of the Daleks
    • Part One - With his legs temporarily disabled, the Twelfth Doctor watches fully equiped Daleks being manufactured on the Delos Research Complex's production line.
    • Part Two - The Doctor declares that the only way to restore history is to undo the Daleks' crash on Earth and sets the TARDIS on course to intercept it.
  • The Dead Star
    • Part One - Polly Wright is leapt upon by the attacking robot.
    • Part Two - Robot parts encircle Ben Jackson and latch onto him, threatening to suffocate him.
    • Part Three - As the Second Doctor tries to escape the black hole tearing Earth apart, it starts to pull the TARDIS in towards it.
    • Part Four - Professor Scapenelli's interference with the black hole's starfish remote control causes numerous micro-black holes to start converging on the station.
    • Part Five - In a last-ditch effort to prevent the time corridor from coming into existence, the Doctor directs the space station in the direction of the event horizon.
  • Prisoners of London
    • Part One - To be added
    • Part Two - To be added
    • Part Three - To be added
    • Part Four - To be added
    • Part Five - To be added

Philip Hinchcliffe Presents

  • Philip Hinchcliffe Presents
    • The Ghosts of Gralstead
      • Part One - The Fourth Doctor accidentally makes the ghost of Gralstead manifest.
      • Part Two - Leela and Abasi charge at their hunters.
      • Part Three - Leela is murdered.
      • Part Four - The Doctor realises that Cedric Scrivener buried the Corona of Alsion with his deceased wife Jane Scrivener and warns him what damage will be done if it falls into the hands of Mordrega.
      • Part Five - Mordrega senses the Doctor returning with the Conrona of Alsion.
    • The Devil's Armada
      • Part One - Anne Harney fears that she, Leela and the Doctor will be discovered and burned alive.
      • Part Two - The Doctor is welcomed by an entity claiming to be the devil himself.
      • Part Three - The Doctor realizes too late that he and Leela have fled on a fire ship about to be set alight by flaming arrows.
  • The Genesis Chamber
    • Part One - The Gravans prepare to strike the human encampment.
    • Part Two - The swarm attacks the Doctor before demanding he explain what he is.
    • Part Three - Dack is murdered by Grillo Clavik.
    • Part Four - The planet cleansing is ordered to commence.
    • Part Five - Volor steals Ana Janz's bracelet with the codes to take control of the terraforming machine and proclaims the revived world will be his.
  • The Helm of Awe
    • Part One - Leela is left to die on a burning ship.
    • Part Two - The burning mast collapses on the Doctor.
    • Part Three - Commander Renwick declares the Doctor and Leela to be spies and a gunshot goes off.

The Early Adventures

Series 1

  • The Doctor's Tale
    • The Lord of Misrule (1) - Thomas Arundel's soldiers surround the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki Pallister, accusing them of being Lollard spies who must either recant their beliefs or die.
    • The White Heart (2) - Vicki and Isabella conceal themselves in Jud Hacker's cart when Arundel orders him to uncover it.
    • Sanctuary (3) - Ian and Chaucer are imprisoned with the Doctor, who solemnly tells them that Arundel is a part of history and thus cannot be stopped.
  • The Bounty of Ceres
    • The Hostile Planet (1) – The Doctor, Vicki and Steven Taylor wait tensely for their chance to escape asphyxiation.
    • The Outer Edge (2) – The sound of gunshots ring out and communication with Thorn and the Doctor goes silent.
    • An Otherworldly Intelligence (3) – Qureshi is killed by the Spindle as it turns of Vicki, Steven and Moreland.
  • An Ordinary Life
    • An Ordinary Life (1) - The Doctor seemingly abandons Steven and Sara in 1950s London.
    • The Unalike (2) - The copies mass.
    • The Sleeping City (3) - Sara is surrounded by copies of her friends.

Series 2

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

Series 3

  • The Age of Endurance
    • Ship of Death (1) – The docking tube containing everybody starts to break apart.
    • Hunters in the Breach (2) – Ian directs the ship towards the gas pocket, towards possible death.
    • A Fight for Survival (3) – Ian is pinned to the wall by the Shift.
  • The Fifth Traveller
    • Hunted (1) – The Doctor is swept away in the current of the river.
    • Enemy in the Dark (2) – Ian, in the midst of sinking, is approached by a Vervidic soldier.
    • The Hidden Soldier (3) – Jospa poisons Vicki.
  • The Ravelli Conspiracy
    • A Friend in Need (1) – Carla tells Steven to kill Guillano de Medici or else be framed for her plot to do it herself.
    • A Friend in Deed (2) – De Medici publicly announces the Doctor had plotted to murder Niccolo Machiavelli.
    • With Friends Like These... (3) – Carla tricks Vicki and locks her in with the Doctor and Steven.
  • The Sontarans
    • The Sontarans (1) – Slite returns fire on the rebels and hits the Doctor.
    • The Descent (2) – Steven is tortured by the Sontarans.
    • The Blind City (3) – The Sontarans sentence the Doctor, Steven and Sara to death as deserters.
    • The Rule of War (4) – The Daleks track the TARDIS and prepare to test their Time Destructor.

Series 4

  • The Night Witches
    • Part One – The Doctor, Ben and Jamie meet Tatiana Krekgi, an exact physical duplicate of Polly.
    • Part Two – The Doctor and Jamie's vehicle is destroyed.
    • Part Three – Tatiana abandons Polly, intent on deserting the war with the Doctor, Ben and Jamie by pretending to be her.
  • The Outliers
    • Part One – Barbara Goro discovers that the number of disappearances are significantly higher than she knew – one person every two hours for ten years.
    • Part Two – The Doctor is swallowed by a sea monster.
    • Part Three – Ben is dragged underwater with everybody else.
  • The Morton Legacy
    • Part One – The Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie realise that if Josiah Morton is arrested for murder, they'll never retrieve the TARDIS.
    • Part Two – Polly is abducted by Copeland and Dexter.
    • Part Three – The Doctor informs everybody that Copeland and Dexter have stolen the most dangerous artefact on Earth.
  • The Wreck of the Titan
    • Part One – Zoe is trapped in a bulkhead about to depressurize.
    • Part Two – The travellers are pinned against the wall by the creatures that just took Commander Lorne.
    • Part Three – Zoe is unable to cut the power to the room where the Doctor is being roasted alive.

Series 5

  • The Dalek Occupation of Winter
    • The Chosen Few (1) – Steven is horrified to discover the people of Winter are making Daleks.
    • Keep Your Enemies Close (2) – Vicki is left at the mercy of the Daleks by Majorian.
    • The Blood of the Young (3) – Kenrik at attacked by a Dalek mutant as Vicki watches helplessly.
  • An Ideal World
    • The Weather Makers (1) – A strange, twisted creature breaks up from the ground, looking to consume.
    • The Life Below (2) – Grant, now transformed into a monster, attacks his former crewmates.
    • A World in Revolt (3) – The creatures attacking the ship are deduced to have come from Earth.
  • Entanglement
    • The Wall of Death (1) – Steven, entranced, takes up a large boulder, ready to bring it down on Vicki.
    • Photographic Evidence (2) – Vicki disappears into Professor Charles Lewis' folding camera.
    • The Hour of Voting (3) – The Proctors' hats turn into large crows which dive down on Guy Burgess and Kim Philby.
  • The Crash of the UK-201
    • Return to Yesterday (1) – Steven realizes that by saving her father, Vicki has changed her personal history and, by extension, his own so that neither of them travelled with the Doctor.
    • The Road Not Taken (2) – Vicki wishes herself to go back in time as she dies and her tangent timeline starts to rewind.
    • Bid Time Return (3) – Steven and Vicki conclude that the only way to fix the timeline is to let the UK-201 crash and everybody die.

Series 6

  • The Home Guard
    • Part One – the Master reestablishes his mental control over Ben, Polly and Jamie by instructing them to take down the Doctor.
    • Part Two – The Master announces that the Doctor has betrayed everybody to the enemy.
    • Part Three – After Polly fails to shoot Ben, Robert Collins shoots him in front of Jill Sandbrook and Jamie.
  • Daughter of the Gods
    • Part One – Katarina fails to accept Jamie as a friend of the Doctor and refuses to allow him to enter the TARDIS as the forest collapses behind them.
    • Part Two – The Daleks order the people of Urbinia to surrender as their ships descend.
    • Part Three – Jamie and Katarina can't get through to the Doctors inside the spaceport as the Daleks approach them.

Series 7

  • After the Daleks
    • A New Life (1) - Marcus Bray steals claim to the Doctor and Susan's victory over the Daleks and destroys the last living Dalek to win over the public votes.
    • The Balance of Life (2) - Bray arrests Susan upon discovering she's an alien.
    • Salvation of the Robomen (3) - Susan, David Campbell and Victor Chaplin are trapped in the Dalek saucer by the creature outside.
  • The Secrets of Det-Sen
    • The Abominable Snowmen (1) - The Doctor follows Dodo Chaplet when she sneaks off to investigate and they are surrounded by Yeti.
    • Guru Rinpoche Day (2) - The Det-Sen Monastery alarm is sounded when bandits are seen approaching.
    • The Bandits (3) - The Doctor rallies the pilgrims into helping get the Ghanta back.

Time Lord Victorious

Unbound

  • A Storm of Angels
    • Part One – The Doctor is arrested by Zeuro, an agent of the Time Lords.
    • Part Two – The angels choose their new envoy.
    • Part Three – Susan slips away in the Doctor's arms when another Susan appears, claiming to be the one he 'left behind'.

Dalek Empire


Classic Series - Special Releases

  • Shada
    • Part One – Skagra prepares to initiate his plans.
    • Part Two – Skagra steals the book from the Eighth Doctor and has his device prepare to drain his mind.
    • Part Three – Skagra's ship, having concluded that the Doctor is dead, shuts off his oxygen supply and he begins to suffocate.
    • Part Four – The Doctor and Chris Parsons are attacked by the creature on Skagra's ship.
    • Part Five – Skagra inserts the minds of the captives into the Universal Mind.

Once and Future

Bernice Summerfield

The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

  • Blood & Steel
    • Willkommen - The Doctor rescues Benny from the cyber-conversion unit, leaving Wulf behind partially converted.
    • Wulf - The Doctor realises that Benny needs to do some work.
    • Übermensch - The Doctor undergoes cyberconversion.

Gallifrey

  • Imperiatrix
    • Part One - Antimon admits to planting the bomb in the academy.
    • Part Two - Pandora declares civil war.
  • Forever - K9 is lost on the Axis whilst Romana, Narvin and Leela are trapped on an alternate Gallifrey
  • Arbitration - Daleks invade the alternate Gallifrey.
  • Renaissance - Romana starts to regenerate.
  • Intervention Earth
    • Part One - Rexx shoots Ace and takes the Hand of Omega.
    • Part Two - Romana III orders Narvin to capture Ace dead or alive.
    • Part Three - Tauras takes a possessed Ace and Narvin through the black hole.
    • Part Four - Irving Braxiatel rescues Romana from her dead TARDIS to start the fight against Omega.
  • Enemy Lines
    • Part One - Braxiatel stops Romana from regenerating and picks Leela up from Legion creating an alternative prime timeline. The Watchmaker starts her work.
    • Part Two - The Watchmaker kills Narvin.
    • Part Three - Livia Caralis announces a retaliation against those who caused the explosion of the Monan Host embassy in Pandac Square and the assassination of the Phaidon president.
    • Part Four - Ace is approached by the Watchmaker and attacked whilst in space by Outpost Delta.
    • Part Five - Romana discovers that a version of Leela is the source of the final paradox.
    • Part Six - The Watchmaker takes Irving Braxiatel to find his true path.
  • Celestial Intervention - Romana sends Braxiatel and Ace on a field mission in a remote arm of the cosmos.
  • Soldier Obscura - Narvin informs Romana that Ace might have died and Braxiatel has disappeared, and orders the War Master to be summoned to the CIA.
  • The Devil You Know - The Master throws Leela into the time vortex and travels to Arking.
  • Desperate Measures - Rassilon is resurrected and the Dalek taskforce is the resurrection engine is destroyed.
  • Havoc - Romana declares that the resistance against Rassilon's rule starts today following a message from the future.
  • Partisans - Romana warns Mantus that Genocide shouldn't be part of this war.
  • Collateral - The Sicari vows to kill Rassilon.
  • Assassins - Romana and Narvin are exiled into the heart of the time war and decide to find Leela.
  • Hostiles - Romana and Narvin replace the dematerialisation circuit to escape the war.
  • Nevernor - The time loop collapses and Romana and Narvin escape being hunted by the Orrovix.
  • Mother Tongue - Leela asks the Trell to take her away from Nateus without her ever being there leaving the future with her son not available any more.
  • Unity - The Daleks exterminate Romana.
  • Deception - Narvin tells the resistance that they need to return Gallifrey to enact their plan.
  • Dissolution - Romana is rescued by Braxiatel.
  • Beyond - Romana leaves the Beyond but the Cloister Bell rings.
  • Homecoming - Romana is banished to another universe, Leela is conscripted and Rassilon start putting his Ultimate Sanction in place changing his high council.

Jago & Litefoot

Graceless

  • The Sphere - Daniel accuses Abby and Zara of murder.
  • The Fog - A spaceship arrives with Marek who shoots Abby and Zara to kidnap them.
  • The End - Zara and Abby decide to go straight and help people, and realise they both want to be with Marek.
  • The Line - Marek and Joy have gone missing.
  • The Flood - Abby and Zara have gone off course and Joy tells them that they are at the end of the universe.
  • The Dark - Abby throws herself into the Time Vortex to find Zara.
  • The Edge - Abby and Zara decide to go searching for Marek.
  • The Battle - Chi tells Abby and Zara that the day which Abby and Zara meet Marek again is the day they both die.
  • Consequences - Abby and Zara have lost their powers (revoked by the Grace) and return to Marek to start a new life as Amy and Joy.
  • The Bomb - Pool tries to get Dodyk to forget about Abby and Zara and transports away.
  • The Room - Abby tells Onora Cormorant and Slink where they are if they wanted to kill them.
  • The Ward - Pool tells Abby and Zara that he was made by the Grace and that they need their help.
  • The Dance - Zara takes Abby to Venus so that Graves would be the first song played on Venus.

The Worlds of Big Finish

Torchwood

Special Releases

Aliens Among Us

God Among Us

UNIT - The New Series

Extinction

Shutdown

Silenced

Assembled

  • Call to Arms - Jastrok reveals that Anthony Burmaster is under his control. Burmaster starts to feel this affect.
  • Tidal Wave - Jo Jones says goodbye to Osgood and Kate before UNIT chases the Silurians to their next base.
  • Retrieval - Kalana vows to get revenge on UNIT for the death of her sister Tryska.
  • United - With the Silurians defeated, Jo, Osgood and Sam Bishop take the sea creatures back to the cost of Ecuador, Benton takes the flying dinosaurs back to the Highlands, and Yates tells Kate that UNIT's future is in safe hands.

Encounters

Cyber-Reality

  • Game Theory - Sam Bishop tells Osgood that he's lucky to know her after he was rescued by her.
  • Telepresence - A partially converted Osgood, Shindi, and Bishop create a portal and something is making its way through. Kate shoots to stop them.
  • Code Silver - Kate prepares to destroy the Cyberman in a Nuclear Explosion but hears a TARDIS materialisation.
  • Master of Worlds - The War Master leaves with the energy from the Cyberman's hive and Osgood sets up a patch to undo her previous partial conversion signal.

Revisitations

Incursions

The Worlds of Doctor Who

Rose Tyler - The Dimension Cannon

Masterful - Limited Edition

  • Masterful
    • Part One - Jo Grant plummets into a pit escaping the wave.
    • Part Two - Missy and Jo barricade themselves in a library dedicated to the Master.
  • Terror of the Master
    • Part One - The Third Doctor and the Brigadier are caught in an armed car chase organised by the Master.
    • Part Two - The Scabus turns its powers on the Master.

Short Trips

Volume III

BBC Audio

Radio serials

  • Slipback
    • Part One - The Sixth Doctor and Peri are blocked from entering the TARDIS by a huge snarling beast.
    • Part Two - The Vipod Moor computer informs the Doctor that Peri has fallen 9 meters down the lift shaft.
    • Part Three - Shellingborne Grant shoots Barton then fires at the Doctor.
    • Part Four - The Vipod Moor computer begins to extract all knowledge from the Doctor's mind, a process which would leave him mindless.
    • Part Five - The Vipod Moor computer informs the Doctor and Peri that everyone on the ship, including them, will soon die of an incurable virus.

New Series Adventures

Redacted

  • SOS - Cleo Proctor's phone rings, and upon picking it up Rani Chandra explains that she know who she is and warns her that the Doctor is killing
  • Hysteria - With the pile of missing friends of the Doctor growing, the holographic communication between Cleo and Rani ceases, interrupted by a robot. The robot detects human signs where Cleo and Jordan are and begins to teleport to the hotel, stating that all humans must die.
  • Lost - Cleo's estranged mother Monica explains to her that her brother Jordan is missing.
  • Angels - Cleo, Abby and Shawna are jumped by UNIT agents, and are tazed to the point of lost consciousness. Fading into sleep, Cleo mutters for the Doctor to help them under her breath.
  • Interrogation - Held at gunpoint by Roberts, Cleo steps up to the gun and asks him to shoot her, under the belief he won't because he needs them to save the world.
  • Recruits - Cleo and Shawna split from Abby, who decides to stay with UNIT.
  • Requiem - After everyone on their Zoom call goes missing, Requiuem threatens Cleo and Shawna. The Thirteenth Doctor hijacks the call and warns them that whatever they do, to not touch the ghosts.
  • Ghosts - Vastra tells Cleo and Shawna to jump from the window of Cleo's mum's flat to save themselves from the ghosts.

BBV

Faction Paradox

Magic Bullet Productions

Faction Paradox

Retrieved from "https://tardis.wiki/w/index.php?title=List_of_audio_cliffhangers&oldid=3882982"