List of prose cliffhangers

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

Frederik Muller

Frederik Muller novelisations

• Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks
  • A Meeting on the Common (1) - Ian faints as the Doctor declares that he will have to abduct him and Barbara.
  • Prisoners in Space (2) - The Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Susan step out onto the surface of an alien world.
  • The Dead Planet (3) - Susan screams that there is "something out there" in the petrified jungle.
  • The Power of the Daleks (4) - The Daleks paralyse Ian's legs.
  • Escape into Danger (5) - The Doctor, Barbara, Susan, and Ian, the latter disguised as a Dalek, are confronted by a real Dalek.
  • The Will to Survive (6) - The Thals declare that they would rather be exterminated by the Daleks than fight them.
  • The Lake of Mutations (7) - Elyon is killed by mutant from the Lake of Mutations.
  • The Last Despairing Try (8) - The TARDIS crew and the Thals run into a dead end.
• Doctor Who and the Crusaders
  • Death in the Forest (1) - Barbara is captured by El Akir's men.
  • The Knight of Jaffa (2) - Richard I of England refuses to negotiate for Barbara's release.
  • A New Scheherazade (3) - Saladin threatens Barbara with death if she does not tell him more stories.
  • The Wheel of Fortune (4) - El Akir tells Barbara that he will torture her until she breaks.
  • The Doctor in Disgrace (5) - The Doctor wonders if he will ever see the TARDIS again.
  • The Triumph of El Akir (6) - El Akir notes that Barbara is particularly defiant, which will only make breaking her more fun.
  • The Will of Allah (7) - El Akir prepares to whip Barbara.

Target Books

Target novelisations

• Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken
  • Escape to Danger (1) - The Keeper summons the Doctor to Traken.
  • Melkur Wakes (2) - Arriving on Traken, the Doctor and Adric are immediately surrounded by armed men.
  • Intruders (3) - The Fosters point their blasters at the Doctor.
  • The Voice of Melkur (4) - Melkur plots to overthrow the Keeper and tells Kassia to obey.
  • Melkur's Secret (5) - A hooded figure inside the Melkur boasts to himself that the Doctor is "too late".
  • The Net (6) - The Doctor and Adric are caught in a net.
  • Prisoners of Melkur (7) - The Fosters realise the Doctor has escaped and sent out an alert for his recapture.
  • A Place to Hide (8) - The Fosters point their blasters at the Doctor.
  • Birth of a Keeper (9) - The Melkur becomes the new Keeper of Traken.
  • The Rule of Melkur (10) - The Melkur shoots Tremas with beams coming from its eyes.
  • The Last Resort (11) - The Melkur gains control of the Source, and forces the Doctor to kneel before him.
  • The Enemy (12) - The Master steals the body of Tremas.
• Twice Upon a Time
  • Unexpected Meetings (1) - The Twelfth Doctor declares that something has gone very wrong with time.
  • The Captain (2) - The Twelfth Doctor tells the Captain to enter the TARDIS.
  • Inside the Box (3) - Something attacks the TARDIS.
  • Confrontations (4) - The Twelfth Doctor is presented with a "gift".
  • Cats and Space Adventures (5) - Bill Potts tries in vain to convince the Twelfth Doctor of her identity.
  • The Glass Woman (6) - The Captain prepares to sacrifice his life for Bill Potts.
  • Escape to Danger (7) - The Testimony steal the Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS, but the First Doctor produces his TARDIS key and tells them they can escape in his own.
  • A Dance to the Music of Time Lords (8) - The Glass Woman thinks to herself about how the Doctors, Bill, and the Captain cannot escape her.
  • The Ruins (9) - The Doctors, Bill and the Captain are surrounded by mutated creatures.
  • Heart of Glass (10) - Bill's glass hand is revealed, revealing her as one of the Testimony.
  • Old Friends (11) - The Twelfth Doctor is attacked by mutants.
  • The Tower (12) - The Twelfth Doctor meets Rusty.
  • Enter Rusty (13) - The First Doctor comes face to face with the Glass Woman.
  • A Whirlpool in Time (14) - The Captain accepts his death.
  • The Long Way Round (16) - The Twelfth Doctor hears Bill's voice.
  • Fear Makes Companions of us All (17) - The Twelfth Doctor accepts his death.
  • The Doctor Rises (18) - The Doctor begins to regenerate into his thirteenth incarnation.
  • Epilogue - The newly regenerated Doctor falls out her TARDIS, and begins to fall thousands of feet down to Earth as it leaves her behind.

The Companions of Doctor Who

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Virgin Publishing

Virgin New Adventures

Seventh Doctor

• Timewyrm: Genesys

• Prologue - Ishtar crashes on Earth.
• Chapter 2 - A hologram of the Fourth Doctor appears in the TARDIS.
• Chapter 4 - The Doctor concludes that the Earth will soon cease to exist.
• Chapter 22 - Ishtar becomes the Timewyrm.
• Epilogue - The Doctor and Ace arrive in London.

• Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark

• Chapter 1 - Emrys Hughes opens fire on Ace and Badger.

• Christmas on a Rational Planet
  • Waifs and Strays (1) - Roz prepares to shoot Samuel Lincoln.
  • A Fistful of Timelines (2) - The TARDIS, with Chris Cwej inside, begins to lose structural integrity.
  • Thought About Saving the World, Couldn't be Bothered (3) - Something manifests from the Doctor's echo.
  • Moment of Catastrophe (4) - The New York Renewal Society searches for Roz.
  • Directory Inquiries (5) - Erskine Morris is inducted into the New York Renewal Society.
  • Non-Interventionalist Policy (Yeah, Sure) (6) - Roz is pursued by a lynch mob.
  • The Edge of Distraction (7) - Isaac Penley explodes.
  • Various Gods Out of Assorted Machines (8) - The Carnival Queen manifests herself in the rational universe.
  • Bogeywomen (9) - Woodwicke begins to be consumed by irrationality.
  • Obligatory Chapter Named After Pop Song (10) - Roz becomes trapped in the amaranth’s attempt to rationalise history.
  • Great Executions (11) - The Doctor confronts the Carnival Queen.

Eighth Doctor

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Bernice Summerfield

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Virgin Missing Adventures

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BBC Books

Eighth Doctor Adventures

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Past Doctor Adventures

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Short Trips

• A Town Called Eternity
  • Part One - Peri is surrounded by Dinosaurs resurrected by the Fountain of Youth
• Nothing at the End of the Lane
  • The Valiant Woman (1) - Searching for Susan's home, Barbara instead finds a police box at the address. Touching it, she notices a strange vibration...
  • The Watchers on the Walls (2) - Ian and Barbara resolve to investigate Susan together.

New Series Adventures

• The Stealers of Dreams
  • Prologue - Kimmi is pounced upon by the monster from her nightmares.
  • One - Rose finds the Doctor missing and hears running footsteps outside in the corridor.
  • Two - Waller tells the Doctor that Hal Gryden is the most dangerous man in the world.
  • Three - Domnic jumps from a sixtieth floor balcony.
  • Four - The Doctor and Waller pay a visit to the Big White House.
  • Five - Jack meets a tramp who claims to be Hal Gryden.
  • Six - Rose and Domnic are surrounded by zombies.
  • Seven - The Doctor thinks to himself about how he must kill Inspector Waller.
  • Eight - Jack is inadvertently led into an ambush by the deluded tramp and they both are arrested.
  • Nine - The Doctor realises that Rose has gone fantasy crazy.
  • Ten - Tyko prepares to lobotomise Jack.
  • Eleven - Rose is injected in the neck and "the Doctor" reveals himself to be another delusion.
  • Twelve - The Doctor discovers that the delusions are being caused by microorganisms living in the planet's atmosphere.
  • Thirteen - Rose and Jack prepare to take on the police.
  • Fourteen - The Doctor declares that he doesn't have a plan, but will "improvise".
  • Fifteen - The Doctor, posing as Hal Gryden, rallies the fantasy crazy patients.
• The Shining Man
  • Making it Up (1) - Sammy Holland vanishes.
  • Stormy Weather (2) - The TARDIS picks up the source of the attack.
  • A Cry for Help (3) - Noah and Marie resolve to search for their mother.
  • Into the Woods (4) - Something grabs Noah's jacket as he flees from a Shining Man.
  • Pull to Open (5) - The Doctor and Bill investigate a scream.
  • The Corner of Your Eye (6) - Charlotte is surrounded by Shining Men.
  • A Visit from the Doctor (8) - The Doctor inquires as to the nature of the Shining Men.
  • Gone Shopping (10) - Bill is captured by a Shining Man.
  • PC Schofield (11) - A Shining Man watches the TARDIS dematerialise.
  • Lore of the Land (13) - The Doctor shows bill a drawing of a Boggart, which looks identical to a Shining Man.
  • Taking a Dip (19) - The Doctor and Schofield are pursued by faeries.
  • Welcome to Fairy Land (21) - The Doctor and Schofield are pursued by faeries.
  • Safe Together (22) - Sammy's eyes blaze the colour of a Shining Man's.
  • Chased (23) - Schofield dives into a stream to escape the Boggarts but is swept away by the current and begins to drown.
  • Sense of Direction (24) - Something grabs Schofield from behind.
  • Tit for Tat (25) - The Doctor begins to doubt if he can defeat the Shining Men.

Big Finish

Short Trips

• The 57th
  • Part One - The Doctor resolves to investigate the mystery of Ian Bird's duplicate.
  • Part Two - Stuart Gorey is found, covered in blood, claiming that the duplicate is armed and has taken Sarah hostage.
  • Part Three - Bird's duplicate threatens to open the exterior doors, which would expose the laboratory to the harsh atmosphere of the planet.

Puffin

13 Doctors, 13 Stories

• The Nameless City
  • 1 - The Master reports to his his superiors that he has fulfilled his part of the bargain.
  • 2 - The Doctor says that he and Jamie are heading for their doom.
  • 3 - The TARDIS arrives in the Nameless City.
  • 4 - The Archons reveal themselves.

• The Ripple Effect
  • 1 - the Doctor successfully escapes the Plexus, but admits to Ace he has no idea where they now are.
  • 2 - The Doctor and Ace encounter a seemingly benevolent Dalek.
  • 3 - The Doctor declares that he will discover how and why the Daleks are performing this charade of benevolence.
  • 4 - The Doctor realises that the benevolent Daleks are not a ruse, but rather the entire history of the universe has been rewritten.
  • 5 - Ace confronts the Doctor, calling him prejudiced against the Daleks.
  • 6 - The Doctor realises that he inadvertently created the new universe.
  • 7 - The Doctor realises the universe is tearing itself apart.
  • 8 - The Doctor and Ace head back to the Plexus.
  • 9 - Ace wonders whether she and the Doctor are doing the right thing by unwriting the new universe.
• Nothing O'Clock
  • 1 - The Kin escapes its temporal prison and vows to kill the last Time Lord.
  • 2 - The "Mrs Cat" aspect of the Kin purchases the Browning's House.
  • 3 - The Kin purchaes the hotel the Brownings are staying at and Polly Browning vanishes from the Browning's hotel room.
  • 4 - The "Mr Wolf" aspect of the Kin attacks Polly Browning.
  • 5 - The Doctor and Amy head for the Browning's old house to confront the Kin.
  • 6 - The Doctor realises that "Amy Pond" is a disguised aspect of the Kin, and begs it to tell him the real Amy is safe. However, the Amy Pond Kin, with sadistic glee, informs him that she is not.