4 of The WORST Classic Doctor Who Cliffhangers
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Cliffhangers are a staple of serialized television which Classic Doctor Who very much was. But in 26 seasons worth of episodes, they can't all be winners. Some are indeed amazing and some just fall flat. Here are 4 that really just seem off to me.
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Practically all the cliffhangers in the trial of the time lord there all basically "Doctor you have done this" the doctor looks at camera music
You forgot the zooming on Colin's face
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While he's like 😯
It’s funny how Dragonfire had a perfectly good cliffhanger right before that scene. Mel and Ace are walking along whenever the Dragon appears and Mel Screams super loud. This would have been fine.
That is a very good point. Kinda baffling
Three that jump to mind for me: The Mutants episode 5 who Rick James’ Cotton utters his totally monotone, “now we’re all going to die” line without a trace of fear or drama; Revelation of the Daleks episode 2 when a big, obviously styrofoam statue of the 6th doctor falls on him, and, most hilarious of all, Warriors of the Deep episode 1 when the doctor falls into some water for about two and a half seconds and Turlough tells Tegan they must go, saying earnestly, “face it Tegan! He’s drowned!”
As someone who watched the Ark In Space cliffhanger in 1975, maybe you had to there but I crapped myself.
I'm fine with the Ark in Space one tbh, it was a freaky moment
Indeed. There was no rewind in those days, so we saw some weird insect thing and before it entirely registered we were all moaning that we'd got to wait a week to find out what it was.
It was a fine idea, just poorly executed.
With the Death to the Daleks one, it's not just that it's anticlimactic with the Doctor saying "stop" and then the floor tiling. It's the combination of the utterly bizarre music and the fact Pertwee does not even make any apparent effort to sell it as a dramatic moment, with his flat delivery, that is the reason why we are still talking about it. To be honest the worst cliff-hangers are probably the ones that are least memorable, and at least Death to the Daleks achieves that, for all the wrong reasons. Likewise with Dragonfire
Death to the Daleks under-ran it's episode length, it was supposed to conclude as the Daleks approach the Doctor and Bellal as they are cornered at the base of the tower. However that would have seen the episode only reach about 18 minutes. So the story proceeds further and the reason Pertwee undersells it is that at the time of recording he wasn't aware it was going to be repurposed as a cliffhanger.
@@harnois75 I'd argue it is all the better that way
The misalignment of those tiles was horrifying to anyone with OCD.
Okay, so with the Dragonfire one, what happened was that in the script, the Doctor is descending into the ice caves, when he reaches a dead end, with the path continuing below, so, he'd hang off the edge of the cliff, before realising he couldn't reach the next ledge. Unfortunately, when they came to filming, they got a single ice cave set, specifically a straight path, so the entire ending for that episode couldn't be done.
Moffat is the worst at this in modern Who. Set up an absolute classic cliffhanger, then jump six months later in the next episode with some handwaving about what happened halfway through the second episode.
I was honestly really scared that Underwater Menace Part 3 was gonna be here when I love that one
Oh no. I actually quite enjoy that one as well
NOTHING IN THE WORLD CAN STOP ME NOW!
I used to watch a lot of 60s and 70s shiws on DVD with my mother and after seeing that cliffhanger, every time Joseph Furst turned up in anything, she'd shout "Nothing in the world can stop me now!"
The last one was more of a creepy jump-scare for youngsters (urg! Dead Thing falling out of cupboard!)
Please try to remember that this was primarily still viewed as a Children's show in those days.
I actually don’t really mind greatest show episode 1. It isn’t suspenseful but I always thought it worked pretty well in itself just being a closing 5 seconds, they had probably just went over their 25 min slot so had to throw in a weird ending. Same craic with death to the Daley’s!
Five Doctors part 3: Master walks down a flight of stairs. Cliffhanger
Part 3? When I watched it on its original run, it was a complete special, not divided into episodes.
@@peterward2275 there is also a 4 part version
This is the one I was going to mention as well!
@@peterward2275 You're correct, but in reruns, it was split up.
Nice to see another Whovian, subbed. Also I think the worst has to be in the last episode of The Celestial Toymaker, where it ends on the First Doctor getting a toothache after putting a candy in his mouth.
Oh yes. Haha. Didn’t think about that one! Definitely felt like they had to throw some cliffhanger in at the last minute and was all they could think of
What.
To be fair that does intend in lead into the next story the gunfighters where he lands in the ok correl looking for a dentist , a lot of the early 60s cliffhanger endings do lead into the next story
That LITERAL cliffhanger from the Seventh Doctor's "Dragonfire" was absolutely pathetic - whoever thought of it should be kicked repeatedly upside the ass. NOW! That should be identified as the worst cliffhanger in the history of cliffhangers!
But then there's The Five Doctors - not really a cliffhanger, but Sarah Jane did fall down a very slight hill, and the Third Doctor tried to "rescue" her as if it was a bottomless pit.
The ending of "Death to the Daleks" part three was not the intended cliffhanger. I'm going by memory here, having only seen the story once. According to the commentary on the DVD, in the original ending the Doctor and Bellal are fleeing from the Daleks and turn into a corridor, only to encounter a dead end. The Daleks then enter the corridor and the episode was supposed to end at that point. For reasons I've forgotten, part of the episode had to be cut, so what was supposed to be the cliffhanger came several minutes earlier than planned. In the finished episode the checkerboard came up at about the 25-minute mark, so that became the ending.
A small thing: Chester's bow tie is knotted, not ready-tied. The mark of a gentleman.
Why thank you :)
My pleasure, good sir.@@ChestersReviews
Most of the cliffhangers from The Frontier In Space are right there...and yet you don't pick them?!?
Haha. Fair enough. Maybe they'll be included in a sequel video. I specifically called it four of the worst instead of THE four worst because I knew there was plenty for future videos.
The end of the second episode of Kinda had a particularly dumb cliffhanger lol
I definitely agree about the dragonfire one- oh boyy
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You forget that at the time of Death to the Daleks we also had this:
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Pure horror.
My introduction to Doctor Who was the end Dragonfire. I was channel surfing and the episode was mostly over. I had no idea who any of these people were. Then the cliffhanger happened and I decided Doctor Who was horrible. I did not watch any more until nuWho.
Oh wow! That's fascinating. Glad you were able to eventually find out it's not all that bad.
Encore! Encore! Your humour strikes me dead. And I am killed by it.
Well? Did you get the cookie or not?!
The ark in space one is good
I don't remember the other three, but Dragonfire's was surely the most retarded cliffhanger, as the Doctor DELIBERATELY PUT HIMSELF IN THAT POSITION!! It never made sense to me, but apart from that dumb moment, the story is decent enough.
Character with third doctor is called "Bellal" and the grasshopper is a creature called a Wirrn.
Your grasp of Doctor Who is amateurish to say the least.
there are a few crappy ones some monster ones you can forgive. 9/10 times its kill him and the reprise i won't kill you yet. Ships airlock one are rubbish. Mark of the rani george Stephenson was ment to chane the points. Dragonfire the seventh Doctor was meant to be ice/rock climbing and he realises he can't go foward or back. Planet Of Evil i hated ep 2 because freeze frame the doctor looked liked he could regain balance better to have him fallen in.
I found the whole #7 Doctor era boring. 🥱
even remembrance of the daleks that is a classic doctor who and dalek story and the darker tones in the next last season