List of audio cliffhangers/The Companion Chronicles

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

The Companion Chronicles

Series 1

• Frostfire
  • Part One - Georgiana gets swept up in the cold flames of the fire.

• Fear of the Daleks
  • Part One - Three Daleks appear with orders to exterminate the Second Doctor.

• The Blue Tooth
  • Part One - The Third Doctor and Liz Shaw discover teeth marks in the body of Liz’s friend’s cat.
  • Part Two - A swarm of Cybermats trap Liz and Benton.
  • Part Three - Liz sees a Cyberman for the first time.

• The Beautiful People
  • Part One - Romana is advanced on by black sea-weed-like tendrils.
  • Part Two - Romana is dragged underwater.
  • Part Three - Karna locks Romana and Sibella Bing in the weight loss machine.

Series 2

• Mother Russia
  • Part One - Steven Taylor calls for the First Doctor from outside the TARDIS as it dematerialises.

• Helicon Prime
  • Part One - Mindy Voir and Jamie McCrimmon are trapped in the Ambassador’s private quarters as he returns.

• Old Soldiers
  • Part One - The Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart watch soldiers take on an advancing army of soldiers from the past.

• The Catalyst
  • Part One - The Doctor tells Leela that the Z’Nai Emperor is still alive and the killings are already starting as they discover Jessica Douglas’ body.

Series 3

• Here There Be Monsters
  • The Hole in Space (1) - The alien spacecrafts fire off missiles at the Doctor and his companions.

• The Great Space Elevator
  • Part One - A creature made of electricity enters the room and surrounds Victoria Waterfield.

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

• Empathy Games
  • Part One - Leela is forcibly dragged below the water surface, unable to call out for help.

• Home Truths
  • Dream Home (1) - The house makes Steven disappear.
  • Home Truths (2) - Sara Kingdom asks Robert what he’s going to do with her.

• The Darkening Eye
  • Part One - Adric is stabbed by a man the Dar Traders had presumed dead.

• The Transit of Venus
  • Voyage to Descovery (1) - Ian Chesterton 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.

• The Prisoner's Dilemma
  • Part One - Ace is sentenced for her alleged crime and her mind is erased.

• Resistance
  • Part One - Polly Wright 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.

• The Mahogany Murderers
  • Part One - Dr. Heinrich Tulp’s wooden facsimile stalks off into London.

• The Stealers from Saiph
  • Part One - The creature from the sea bares down on Romana.

Series 4

• The Drowned World
  • The Rising Tides (1) - Robert wishes Sara away.
  • The Drowned World (2) - Sara gives Robert an offer to heal his daughter if he agrees that they’ll remain in the house with her.

• The Glorious Revolution
  • Part One - Jamie’s past actions change history - a Time Lord asks him who the Doctor is and he doesn’t know.

• The Prisoner of Peladon
  • Part One - Axlaar raises a dagger to King Peladon, crying “Murderer!”.

• The Pyralis Effect
  • Part One - The Pyralis pin Romana, promising to illuminate all.

• Ringpullworld
  • Part One - Vislor Turlough, believing the Fifth Doctor to be wrong, prepares to open the Ringpull.

• Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code
  • Part One - Bernice Summerfield watches a news report that says the Seventh Doctor had been kidnapped.

• The Suffering
  • An Unearthing (1) - Steven undergoes a psychic attack.
  • The Piltdown Woman (2) - The Suffering decrees that all men must die.
  • The Female of the Species (3) - Vicki, under the Suffering’s influence, attacks Steven when he tries to protect her from it.

• The Emperor of Eternity
  • Part One - Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s guards surround the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria.

• Shadow of the Past
  • Part One - The Doctor calls for the advancing alien fleet to begin their invasion.

• The Time Vampire
  • Part One - Leela and K9 arrive in the Z’Nai’s sky city.

• Night's Black Agents
  • Part One - Merodach proclaims that the TARDIS will be his.

• Solitaire
  • Part One - Charley Pollard ejects the Eighth Doctor from the Celestial Toymaker’s toy room.

Series 5

• The Guardian of the Solar System
  • The Old Men in the Clock (1) - Sara leaves the House after she was brought back to life by Robert.

• Echoes of Grey
  • Part One - Jamie and Zoe are trapped in a wardrobe with an Achromatic about to discover them.

• Find and Replace
  • Part One - Jo and Iris Wildthyme travel back to the 1970s.

• The Invasion of E-Space
  • Part One - The Farrian abduct Romana and Adric.

• A Town Called Fortune
  • Part One - Rachel Ann Donovan shoots the Sixth Doctor.

• Quinnis
  • The Rainmaker (1) - The TARDIS is swept away by a torrent.

• Peri and the Piscon Paradox
  • Part One - Zarl approaches Peri menacingly.
  • Part Two - The older Peri shoots Zarl and Beretta in cold blood, causing the Fifth Doctor and the younger Peri to flee in disgust.
  • Part Three - The Sixth Doctor is disintegrated by the Piscon Police.

• The Perpetual Bond
  • The Perpetual Bond (1) - Steven and Oliver Harper’s actions against the Fulgurites leave the Doctor powerless to help them.
  • Fair Trade (2) - Oliver escapes from the police in the TARDIS, hoping to ensure that the Doctor and Steven never find out his secret.

• The Forbidden Time
  • Part One - After having apparently watched Ben die, the Doctor and Polly run from the Vist and end up surrounded.

• The Sentinels of the New Dawn
  • Part One - A half-bird, half-man creature descends on the Doctor and Liz as they try to escape.
  • Part Two - Lieutenant Ed Crowborough is revealed to be one of the Sentinels of the New Dawn.

• Ferril's Folly
  • Part One - Millicent Ferril orders her knights to take Romana’s head.

• The Cold Equations
  • The Impassable Sky (1) - The satellite starts colliding with a debris field, sending the Doctor and the crew out into the vacuum of space, with Steven and Oliver soon to follow.
  • The Cold Equations (2) - The Doctor, Steven and Oliver prepare to meet their fate on Grace Alone.

Series 6

• The Rocket Men
  • The Rocket Men (1) - Barbara is thrown off Platform Five to plummet to her death. Without thinking Ian jumps after her.

• The Memory Cheats
  • Part One - Zoe tells Jen that she killed the Lansings.

• The Many Deaths of Jo Grant
  • Part One - Jo dies for the second time.

• The First Wave
  • The First Wave (1) - Steven and Oliver resolve to return to the base and stop the Vardans.

• Beyond the Ultimate Adventure
  • Part One - The Doctor, Crystal, Jason and Karl step out into uncharted territory.

• The Anachronauts
  • The Island (1) - Steven gets shot square in the chest by Natalie Lang.
  • The Door (2) - Sara and Natalie falls against the TARDIS console as it explodes.
  • The Wall (3) - The Stasi surround Steven and Sara as the policeman informs them that they’ll soon have never existed.

• The Selachian Gambit
  • Part One - Ben tells the Doctor that Selachians have planted a bomb by the vault.

• Binary
  • Part One - Liz and Childs are chased by an alien creature inside the computer.

• The Wanderer
  • The Dark Pilgrim (1) - Grigori starts drawing information from 1000 years into the future into his mind, despite Ian's attempts to stop him.

• The Jigsaw War
  • Part One - Moran assumes the Unheld have come for Jamie.

• The Rings of Ikiria
  • Part One - After being dismissed from UNIT, Yates is flown away on a helicopter and spots the Doctor’s face burned into the fields below.

Series 7

• The Time Museum
  • The Cave of Five Hundred Skulls (1) - 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.

• The Uncertainty Principle
  • Part One - Two creatures abduct Zoe.

• Project: Nirvana
  • Part One - Sally Morgan is unable to stop laughing at the dead body of Jimmy Colborn.

• The Last Post
  • Part One - Emily Shaw dies.

• Return of the Rocket Men
  • The Scourge of the Skies (1) - Steven decides to save his younger self, knowing that the masked man that had saved him all those years ago had died.

• The Child
  • Part One - Leela is fired on by three robots.

• The Flames of Cadiz
  • The Morisco (1) - Ian is charged with heresy.
  • The Justice of God (2) - Susan and Barbara see the Doctor being led toward the execution pyre.
  • The Doleful Knight (3) - The Doctor furiously tells Barbara that she and Ian have changed the course of history forever.

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

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

• The Library of Alexandria
  • The Library of Alexandria (1) - A flock of tentacled sea creatures are seen approaching the Library of Alexandria.

• The Apocalypse Mirror
  • Part One - Jamie finds Zoe missing in the wake of the Hawker's appearance.

• Council of War
  • Part One - Sergeant Benton and Margery Phipps discover that they aren’t in the town of Kettering but on the planet Kettering.

Series 8

• Mastermind: The Master deceives Ruth Matheson and Charlie Sato and escapes UNIT.

• The Alchemists
  • The Alchemists (1) - Susan is offered a young boy his brother's services in finding the Doctor, before revealing he's a member of the Sturmabteilung .

• Upstairs
  • Dust and Death (1) - The Prime Minister is revealed to be a large mass of Time fungus.

• Ghost in the Machine
  • Part One - Jo is trapped in the tape recording while the voice inhabits her body.

• The Beginning
  • The First Flight (1) - The TARDIS stasis field starts breaching and time starts freezing around the Doctor, Susan and Quadrigger Stoyn.

• The Dying Light
  • Part One - The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are surrounded by stone giants.

• Luna Romana
  • Part One - Stoyn’s droids reach for Romana, pleading for help.
  • Part Two - Romans throws herself into Stoyn’s time corridor.
  • Part Three - Stoyn abducts Romana II in the Doctor’s TARDIS.

• The Sleeping City
  • The City (1) - The travellers discover Abbot has already been killed.

• Starborn
  • Star Light, Star Bright (1) - Stella decides she must tell Vicki how she dies.

• The War To End All Wars
  • The Good Soldier (1) - Steven is caught at gunpoint behind enemy lines by Dodo Chaplet.
  • The War To End All Wars (2) - Sida tells Steven that the copy of the Doctor’s mind wants to be king.

• The Elixir of Doom
  • Part One - Vita Monet orders the Human Jelly to kill Jo.

• Second Chances
  • Part One - Zoe agrees to go with Kym Howaska to fix her past mistake.

The First Doctor: Volume One

• The Sleeping Blood
  • The Sleeping Blood (1) - The Butcher orders the soldiers to stand down or else he has the power to kill everybody.

• The Unwinding World
  • The Writing on the Wall - The Doctor drives straight into the Bureau of Correction.

• The Founding Fathers
  • Part One - The Doctor and Benjamin Franklin conduct a lightning bolt but when Vicki, Steven and Abigail Holt arrive, they’re gone and presumed dead.
  • Part Two - On “the Doctor’s” instructions, Sida stands for election and wins while Steven’s experiment to bring back the real Doctor works.

• The Locked Room
  • Part One - The Doctor, Steven and Sida are sealed inside with a Vardan.

The Second Doctor: Volume One

• The Mouthless Dead
  • Part One - Polly and Frances are unwittingly cut off from the others by the advancing ghostly figures.

• The Story of Extinction
  • Part One - The sheets of parchment fold themselves into creatures that jump at Jamie, Victoria and Selsey.

• The Integral
  • Part One - Aspen Base is overrun with the crazed victims of Quercus Syndrome.

• The Edge
  • Part One - Sebastian lets Jamie fall from the railing.

The First Doctor: Volume Two

• Fields of Terror
  • The Column from Hell (1) - Lagrange puts Vicki and Steven in front of a firing squad.

• Across the Darkened City
  • Journey into Night (1) - Dalek Genetic Variant Two-One-Zero is struck by lighting, rendering him unresponsive and Steven knows that he’ll never escape Shade without him.
  • The Chaons (2) - Two-One-Zero becomes the Emperor of the Daleks.

• The Bonfires of the Vanities
  • Part One - Polly is attacked by a guy still inside with them.

• The Plague of Dreams
  • Part One - The Doctor seemingly dies and while Polly grieves, the Player declares it’s time for the second act.

The Second Doctor: Volume Two

• The Curator’s Egg
  • Part One - Zoltan Clarkson reveals his mind is now inside a Utahraptor.

• Dumb Waiter
  • Part One - Leela stabs the Doctor with a Janis thorn.

• The Iron Maid
  • Part One - Zoe hears someone or something knocking inside the tank.

• The Tactics of Defeat
  • Part One - Matheson sees Zoe on the monitor and Deakin declares that she’s come to die.

The First Doctor: Volume Three

• E is for…
  • The Gifted (1) - Weapon A welcomes Virgil Winters or “Weapon E” home.

• Daybreak
  • Nightfall (1) - The Judge gives Vicki one minute to either tell the truth. or have it tortured out of her by the Protector.

• The Vardan Invasion of Mirth
  • Something in Television (1) - Steven and Teddy Baxter find Manchester behind the TARDIS doors.

• The Crumbling Magician
  • Part One - The Doctor is revived in Polly’s body by Continuity.

The Second Doctor: Volume Three

• The Death of the Daleks
  • Part One - Jamie finds the Doctor shouting after a Dalek that he can’t see.

• The Phantom Piper
  • Part One - Jamie relives seeing the Phantom Piper in his grandmother’s room through his dreams.

• The Prints of Denmark
  • Part One - Zoe starts to notice the effects of the Monk's interference of history when a broadcast of Hamlet is being prepared in 1601.

• The Deepest Tragedian
  • Part One - Tom Waugh starts to fluctuate erratically between soldier and actor, insisting that ‘he’ must be found.

Specials

• The Revenants
  • The Marsh-Wains (1) - Ian meets the Wisfornal, and discovers that he's the Doctor.