@@octaviusfooks7194yes would have loved to have seen another season with Hinchcliffe but then again we wouldn’t have got K9 or Romana my fav companion.
it took me ages to realize it but it's the same actor (Peter Mayock) who played Solis in The Deadly Assassin......they had their pick of great character actors back then. I love finding out random things like this decades on.
Davros' screaming as the sting pummels in at 2:12 is so effective, not too dissimilar to the cliffhanger in Resurrection of the Daleks where the Daleks screaming continues into the first few seconds of the credits.
Right off the bat, you show one of the most influential and nostalgic cliffhangers I remember from my childhood. Man the Tom Baker era is amazing. Especially the first 3 years.
@@squishmallowfan025Three. We have classic horror Tom (12-14), goofy Tom (15-16), and somber Tom (18). A pity he didn’t do an eighth year, I should have liked to see more of Season 18’s wearier Doctor.
@magicaltour1 Thank god he never! He had hogged the role far too long as it was and had even stopped caring about his performances. His first three seasons were great and then he became utterly ridiculous, almost sending up everything.
The endings to episodes 1 (first sight of Davros) and 4 are shown here. The end of the penultimate episode 5,when one of the mutant Dalek creatures wraps itself round the Doctor's neck as he tries to blow up the lab,is a famous one.
Tom Baker's era had the most atmospheric stories. You could even call Dr Who scifi horror at that time. Even though I watched it as a child, the themes and many scenes were not really for young kids.
Mary Whitehouse was on the warpath,particularly with Part 2 of Jon Pertwee story Terror of the Autons and part 3 of Tom Baker story The Deadly Assassin.
List of Cliffhangers The Ark in Space: Parts 2 to 3 The Sontaran Experiment: Part 1 Genesis of the Daleks: Parts 1 and 4 Terror of the Zygons: Part 1 Planet of Evil: Part 1 Pyramids of Mars: Parts 1 and 3 The Android Invasion: Part 2 The Brain of Morbius: Parts 1 to 2 The Seeds of Doom: Parts 2 to 3 The Hand of Fear: Part 1 The Deadly Assassin: Parts 1 to 4 The Face of Evil: Parts 1 and 3 The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Parts 3 and 5 Horror of Fang Rock: Part 3 Image of the Fendahl: Part 2 The Sun Makers: Part 3 The Invasion of Time: Part 4 The Ribos Operation: Part 4 The Pirate Planet: Part 3 The Stones of Blood: Part 1 The Androids of Tara: Part 2 The Armageddon Factor: Parts 5 and 6 City of Death: Parts 1 to 3 The Leisure Hive: Parts 1 to 3 Meglos: Part 1 Full Circle: Part 1 Warriors Gate: Part 2 The Keeper of Traken: Part 4 Logopolis: Part 4
1:52 OK, if I must tell you. The DALEKS use stairs too much. Davros: "Then I will make it so they do not climb or descend stairs." Doctor: "Their greatest defeats came as a result of cooperating with Cybermen." Davros: "I will program into them a hatred for Cybermen!" Doctor: "They have nobody to rely on. They have been defeated time and again because they lost access to their creator." Davros: "Ah! I shall improve my life support systems so the DALEKS can retrieve me, even thousands of years in the future, to help them." Doctor: "Other defeats happened because it's impossible to shove them around when they don't want to move." Davros: "I shall make it easy to shove them around." Doctor: "If I tell you this, they will dominate the universe." Davros: "TELL ME OR YOUR FRIENDS SHALL DIE!" Doctor: "Their friendship with me has caused them many defeats." Davros: "I will program them to hate you, Doctor. You shall be their greatest enemy!"
Having grown-up finding Egyptology both fascinating and chilling in the uncovered imagery, the end of part one of 'Pyramids Of Mars' freaked me out; like a nightmare manifested.
I found many a cliffhanger scary as a kid at the time,and among the most behind-the-sofa ones were parts 1 and also 2 (murderous mummies on the loose) of Pyramids of Mars.
😂 Sooty's twisted alien cousin came to visit. btw We had a cat called Sooty at the time this was first shown. We'd had mice in our under-stairs cupboard and were hoping he'd catch them.
Would have loved to see Warriors Gate Episode 3, were the doctor is fast forwarded through time. That one has really grown on me over the years. As has the story. Very underrated
Episode 2 of genesis had my jaw drop so hard first time watching. The resolution in episode 3 completely cheated us, though. I haven't seen all of classic who yet but I doubt anything will beat it.
the headless body in Brain of Morbius I remember terrifying me as a kid Other favourites - the hand coming to life and the Doctor being drowned by Goth
To be fair the green bubble wrap looks really good, freaky and gross on taped VHS reruns from last century. Also for shame, some of these are the ends of stories, not really cliffhangers.
it was the damn way he moved, the close-ups of the eyes and the pig grunting sound effects after we'd been told he had the cerebral cortex of a pig. (and a "small computer"). I don't think you'll find that sort of vaguely disturbing material in what was then a kid's TV show now.
One of the best cliffhangers from Tom Baker’s era in my opinion is the cliffhanger to Part 4 of the Invasion of Time. You think that it’s all over but then NOPE!! It immediately cuts to (SPOILER ALERT) the Sontarans standing there and then Stoor grabs his weapon stick and then the sting plays. Look, I know that The Invasion of Time is not a very good story, but it does have some good moments that prevent it from being unwatchable.
Like a false ending where it appears to be all over...and then it isn't. I suppose ao was the ending to part 2 of the Seeds of Doom,when the Krynoid was blown up with the Antarctic base while trapped in the generator room - except that we'd already been informed by the continuity introducing the first part that it was a new 6 part story,and clues in the script such as that the Krynoid pods travel in pairs.
Pumped down the costume in pipes which is why Bernard Archard is wearing the costume. If you think about it in the story where did it come from? He only wears this for his arrival and the killing of Ibrahim Namin. The costume ensured the pipes were hidden and that Archard didn’t get cold burns.
Hinchcliffe by far as that's what I grew up with but I think they had an edge to them...Williams had some great ones (Image of the Fendahl) and a season or two where it really lost its way at the time...he got really great character actors on the show though....JNT was the epitome of the accountant getting hold of the show and if he had some classics (he did) it was because everyone around him pulled their weight - it was less obvious in Season 18 than subsequent ones.
I agree, Hinchcliffe. He did the best job of balancing fright and fun. And Sarah and Harry were a lot more fun than Nyssa and Adric. (Okay, I know Sarah and Harry were more Barry Letts creations, but Hinchcliffe did a good job with them.)
um, no it is not. The Watcher was not in Planet of Spiders, he was not needed to that regeneration or any other of the Doctor's regenerations, other than the 4 to 5. The Watcher makes no sense to me at all. "He was the Doctor all the time"????? @@danmcdaid
Hinchliffe really understood the importance of nailing the ciffhangers
If only Hinchcliffe wasn’t transferred to another show and replaced by Graham Williams
Don’t forget Robert Holmes’s role in the writing and the pacing.
in fairness him and Barry Letts...1970-77 Doctor Who was a lesson in how to do low budget television creatively........
We NEED a producer like Hinchliffe again!
@@octaviusfooks7194yes would have loved to have seen another season with Hinchcliffe but then again we wouldn’t have got K9 or Romana my fav companion.
The dry ice effects for the servant of Sutek hold up remarkably well
it took me ages to realize it but it's the same actor (Peter Mayock) who played Solis in The Deadly Assassin......they had their pick of great character actors back then. I love finding out random things like this decades on.
yeah that’s pretty cool
Davros' screaming as the sting pummels in at 2:12 is so effective, not too dissimilar to the cliffhanger in Resurrection of the Daleks where the Daleks screaming continues into the first few seconds of the credits.
0:04 *Yes, your eyes don't deceive you! That is green bubble wrap!*
Imagine being the actor who had to sell the scene! In fairness it was a pretty new material in 1974.......
Who's to say that the mutating of human flesh into space wasp flesh doesn't look like green bubble wrap?
Right off the bat, you show one of the most influential and nostalgic cliffhangers I remember from my childhood.
Man the Tom Baker era is amazing. Especially the first 3 years.
It's like two different performances and certainly production values. 1975-1977 as a kid was just genius and the era still holds up.
@@squishmallowfan025Three. We have classic horror Tom (12-14), goofy Tom (15-16), and somber Tom (18). A pity he didn’t do an eighth year, I should have liked to see more of Season 18’s wearier Doctor.
@@magicaltour1 true that! It would have been an interesting further take
@magicaltour1 Thank god he never! He had hogged the role far too long as it was and had even stopped caring about his performances. His first three seasons were great and then he became utterly ridiculous, almost sending up everything.
3:00 Sutekh's 'gift of death' is a wonderful cliffhanger. Full marks too to the actor in the fez for his RADA quality death scream!
I liked how you used the blu-ray version of Logopolis because the new scene of The Doctor falling at 22:02 adds a bit more impact to his regeneration.
I’m trying to use the new effects where possible as most are a vast improvement on the originals.
What I learned from this is that The Deadly Assassin is the Master (pun intended) of Cliffhangers
The only story to have all of its (four) cliffhangers/episode endings included here.
@@rjjcms1That’s because in my opinion it’s the best Doctor Who Story of all time.
god i love these videos atm lol something about them just shows how good some of these cliffhangers are
I am the servant of Sutekh. He needs no other.
Genesis of the Daleks had some of the best cliffhangers imo
The endings to episodes 1 (first sight of Davros) and 4 are shown here. The end of the penultimate episode 5,when one of the mutant Dalek creatures wraps itself round the Doctor's neck as he tries to blow up the lab,is a famous one.
I'm surprised the one where Sarah falls off the tower didn't make the cut, that freeze frame gets me every time
That was the one from part 2,when they attempt to escape the Thals' radioactive rocket.
Tom Baker's era had the most atmospheric stories. You could even call Dr Who scifi horror at that time. Even though I watched it as a child, the themes and many scenes were not really for young kids.
Mary Whitehouse was on the warpath,particularly with Part 2 of Jon Pertwee story Terror of the Autons and part 3 of Tom Baker story The Deadly Assassin.
2:48 Pyramids of Mars. One of the all-time classic Who stories.
No budget, a roll of bubble wrap, and some excellent writing, and they made television far superior to most of what's come since 2005.
Because they took it seriously.
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10:40 & 18:39 are possibly my favourite Doctor Who cliffhangers of all time!
*YOU MUST ACKNOWLEDGE ME!*
WHO AM I? WHO AM I? WHO AM I!!?!
I showed the first one to my friend that's never seen doctor who out of context
I must admit, the early Baker story cliffhangers are the best.
List of Cliffhangers
The Ark in Space: Parts 2 to 3
The Sontaran Experiment: Part 1
Genesis of the Daleks: Parts 1 and 4
Terror of the Zygons: Part 1
Planet of Evil: Part 1
Pyramids of Mars: Parts 1 and 3
The Android Invasion: Part 2
The Brain of Morbius: Parts 1 to 2
The Seeds of Doom: Parts 2 to 3
The Hand of Fear: Part 1
The Deadly Assassin: Parts 1 to 4
The Face of Evil: Parts 1 and 3
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Parts 3 and 5
Horror of Fang Rock: Part 3
Image of the Fendahl: Part 2
The Sun Makers: Part 3
The Invasion of Time: Part 4
The Ribos Operation: Part 4
The Pirate Planet: Part 3
The Stones of Blood: Part 1
The Androids of Tara: Part 2
The Armageddon Factor: Parts 5 and 6
City of Death: Parts 1 to 3
The Leisure Hive: Parts 1 to 3
Meglos: Part 1
Full Circle: Part 1
Warriors Gate: Part 2
The Keeper of Traken: Part 4
Logopolis: Part 4
6:35 That' so freaking metal. Imagine what it'll look like in the modern era, with our current Special effects tech.
9:14 - Just stay there Doctor, you'll easily derail that piece of shit train, it's got the power of a moth.
The cliffhanger where the Doctor appears to shoot the President is probably the best in classic Who
1:52
OK, if I must tell you. The DALEKS use stairs too much.
Davros: "Then I will make it so they do not climb or descend stairs."
Doctor: "Their greatest defeats came as a result of cooperating with Cybermen."
Davros: "I will program into them a hatred for Cybermen!"
Doctor: "They have nobody to rely on. They have been defeated time and again because they lost access to their creator."
Davros: "Ah! I shall improve my life support systems so the DALEKS can retrieve me, even thousands of years in the future, to help them."
Doctor: "Other defeats happened because it's impossible to shove them around when they don't want to move."
Davros: "I shall make it easy to shove them around."
Doctor: "If I tell you this, they will dominate the universe."
Davros: "TELL ME OR YOUR FRIENDS SHALL DIE!"
Doctor: "Their friendship with me has caused them many defeats."
Davros: "I will program them to hate you, Doctor. You shall be their greatest enemy!"
Cant wait until the fifth doctor cliffhangers
Having grown-up finding Egyptology both fascinating and chilling in the uncovered imagery, the end of part one of 'Pyramids Of Mars' freaked me out; like a nightmare manifested.
I found many a cliffhanger scary as a kid at the time,and among the most behind-the-sofa ones were parts 1 and also 2 (murderous mummies on the loose) of Pyramids of Mars.
Terror of the Zygons part one should be in there. Great direction, performance and music!💯
It’s in there.
@@DanTheMan2150AD That's me not paying attention😁
2:51 what a mummy's boy
The ack in space has got one of the best doctor who cliffhanger and every tom baker doctor who story has got a good cliffhanger in every episodes
Hardly. There are many crap Tom Baker episodes..... particularly from Season 16 onwards.
I’d forgotten how well they conveyed the Arctic in _Seeds of Doom_ and how good the model work + pyrotechnics were.
17:30 use scare the shit out of me when I was a kid! I couldn’t watch City of Death for a while til I turned 18.
STATE OF DECAY should have at least one cliffhanger in this collection.
Which one was it?
Part Two or Three. Both are great.
The first one should have ended with “Sooty what are you doing in there!”
😂 Sooty's twisted alien cousin came to visit.
btw We had a cat called Sooty at the time this was first shown. We'd had mice in our under-stairs cupboard and were hoping he'd catch them.
10:45 We are the room that says "No!" No! No! No! No!
And you are... A SHWUBBERY
🤣 Dr Who meets Monty Python.
Would have loved to see Warriors Gate Episode 3, were the doctor is fast forwarded through time. That one has really grown on me over the years. As has the story. Very underrated
One of the best cliffhangers of the entire classic era, to my mind.
Shada Part Three also deserves to be here. “Dead men do not require oxygen.”
Oh, snap, I didn't realize this was an ongoing series!
Guess I'll have to keep up with it! I really like it!
that dude found his bubble wrap
Love Planet of Evil part 3's cliffhanger, Sarah looks so scared. Hampered by the easy reverse lever in the next part.
That planet jungle was really well realised,with the pit that led into the anti-matter universe.
Episode 2 of genesis had my jaw drop so hard first time watching. The resolution in episode 3 completely cheated us, though. I haven't seen all of classic who yet but I doubt anything will beat it.
the headless body in Brain of Morbius I remember terrifying me as a kid
Other favourites - the hand coming to life and the Doctor being drowned by Goth
The Doctor being drowned by Goth was my first-ever cliffhanger, in the first ever episode I ever saw! Mummy finally let me watch it.
To be fair the green bubble wrap looks really good, freaky and gross on taped VHS reruns from last century. Also for shame, some of these are the ends of stories, not really cliffhangers.
18:43 That seems quite terrified; imagine the Doctor is engulfing you
Om nom nom nom nom!
The fourth doctor is my sixth favourite doctor who and i love a bunch of cliffhanger of the fourth doctor era
No Robots of Death gravel pit? 🙁
The Doctor gets killed by a Thomas the Tank Engine character. 🤣
Is that Boyce from Only fools and Horses at 7:50 or am I mistaken?
Yes it is,as Chase's swarthy henchman Scorby in The Seeds of Doom,one of my favourite Dr Who stories.
5:55 YEETTTT!!
5:44 Doctor is talking to robospunk.
No Talons of Weng Chiang episode 2 , with Mr Sin climbing out of the laundry basket and stalking Leela?
it was the damn way he moved, the close-ups of the eyes and the pig grunting sound effects after we'd been told he had the cerebral cortex of a pig. (and a "small computer"). I don't think you'll find that sort of vaguely disturbing material in what was then a kid's TV show now.
Not the green painted bubble wrap
In season 18 the leisure hive has the best clifhangers in Tom baker doctor who hiatory
One of the best cliffhangers from Tom Baker’s era in my opinion is the cliffhanger to Part 4 of the Invasion of Time. You think that it’s all over but then NOPE!! It immediately cuts to (SPOILER ALERT) the Sontarans standing there and then Stoor grabs his weapon stick and then the sting plays. Look, I know that The Invasion of Time is not a very good story, but it does have some good moments that prevent it from being unwatchable.
Like a false ending where it appears to be all over...and then it isn't. I suppose ao was the ending to part 2 of the Seeds of Doom,when the Krynoid was blown up with the Antarctic base while trapped in the generator room - except that we'd already been informed by the continuity introducing the first part that it was a new 6 part story,and clues in the script such as that the Krynoid pods travel in pairs.
How did they do the smoke effect in pyramids of mars I saw someone say dry ice but dry ice doesn’t make that much “smoke”
Pumped down the costume in pipes which is why Bernard Archard is wearing the costume. If you think about it in the story where did it come from? He only wears this for his arrival and the killing of Ibrahim Namin. The costume ensured the pipes were hidden and that Archard didn’t get cold burns.
4th to 5th is my second favorite regeneration.
18:07 Wait, so was Julian Glover’s character death in Last Crusade a reference to this Dr Who scene where the roles were reversed?
Favourite part of Tom Baker’s tenure? Hinchcliffe, Williams or Nathan Turner eras?
Hinchcliffe by far as that's what I grew up with but I think they had an edge to them...Williams had some great ones (Image of the Fendahl) and a season or two where it really lost its way at the time...he got really great character actors on the show though....JNT was the epitome of the accountant getting hold of the show and if he had some classics (he did) it was because everyone around him pulled their weight - it was less obvious in Season 18 than subsequent ones.
No brainer - Hinchcliffe by far.
I agree, Hinchcliffe. He did the best job of balancing fright and fun. And Sarah and Harry were a lot more fun than Nyssa and Adric. (Okay, I know Sarah and Harry were more Barry Letts creations, but Hinchcliffe did a good job with them.)
15:33 so Dragonfire isnt the only cliffhanger were someone throws themselves down a hole
The Doctor does,more or less,in Planet of Evil.
Loved it, but nothing from Robot or Destiny, or did I blink?
I remember fembots being on "The Bionic Woman" in the 70''s.
Best cliffhangers ever
Sear Jane Smith is my favourite doctor who companie from new who and classic Dr who
In the third cliffhanger shown in this video from The Leisure Hive, was the Doctor in cahoots with the Foamasi?
Does anyone have a favirote Tom Baker clifhanger? I like them all
either when Android Sarah's face fell off and/or the Zygon interrupts her on the phone as I remember being 5 and watching these.
Will you do the same with the remaining doctors?
Yes.
Why with the Forth Doctor's regeneration into the Fifth Doctor, they to add in the stupid stuff about the Watcher is beyond me.
I LOVE the Watcher. And it's perfectly consistent with what we saw in Planet of the Spiders
um, no it is not. The Watcher was not in Planet of Spiders, he was not needed to that regeneration or any other of the Doctor's regenerations, other than the 4 to 5. The Watcher makes no sense to me at all. "He was the Doctor all the time"????? @@danmcdaid
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