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Old 03-11-2014, 21:41
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A 2 minute clip where a popular soap (no longer with us) ends in extreme high drama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0cvHHoMOk

What has been your favourite cliffhanger over the years?

You ain't my muvva?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgUf9hlTnnU

This horrific car accident?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NVR-qwjgiw
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Old 03-11-2014, 22:06
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A 2 minute clip where a popular soap (no longer with us) ends in extreme high drama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0cvHHoMOk


What happened next? Was the woman with the snakebite ok? Did the guy who ended up playing Phil Martin in Neighbours get eaten by that plastic shark?
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Old 03-11-2014, 22:11
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WOAH. That is an awesome double-edged cliffhanger that!
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Old 03-11-2014, 22:17
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Oh My God, the episode after is absolutely amazing. I'm hooked! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEhnsQqUcvQ
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Old 03-11-2014, 22:51
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I'd love to watch Sons and daughters again
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Old 03-11-2014, 22:53
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Sons and daughter was brilliant, from start to finish I loved it all.
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Old 03-11-2014, 23:06
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For me, this is the ultimate cliffhanger. Not least because she is my all time favourite soap character, but was also an original cast member and we had grown up with her
http://youtu.be/20OFPHYm7sA

Also, straight after the episode aired in Australia, this aired which further led people to believe she was dead. The show went off air for six weeks in Australia during which time the Seven network launched a massive "Will Sally Survive?" campaign
http://youtu.be/kESb_UX9490
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Old 03-11-2014, 23:15
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The reveal of murdering Silas as Heidi's dad. Certainly kept me on my seat.
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Old 04-11-2014, 15:49
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That Sons & Daughters one is MENTAL! I actually had to Google it to see if it was real!

I'd like to nominate the final scene of The Colbys. Nothing has ever come near this for OTT. See Fallon's legendary surprise here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju8YH6ewoqQ
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Old 04-11-2014, 15:50
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Oh, and then there's this little corker from Dynasty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7KOvzLSFKI
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Old 04-11-2014, 16:44
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Oh, and then there's this little corker from Dynasty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7KOvzLSFKI
That video doesn't show the ending when everyone is lying there motionless and we were left wondering who would survive.

When the next season started the people who died ended up being two minor characters who no one gave a crap about

Edit: Here is a picture of what the very end of the episode looked like. It's a shame the video doesn't show it to the very end http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/image...19207207_5.jpg
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Old 04-11-2014, 16:58
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This finale from Dallas is a proper wtf moment. Bobby had died at the end of the previous season and his wife Pam wakes up at the end of the following season's finale to find that whole season had been a dream

http://youtu.be/nCEjeTb1rrs
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Old 04-11-2014, 18:17
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That Sons and Daughters cliffhanger was a bit too over the top (silly) for my tastes. It actually came late in the show's run, when the ratings in Australia had started to slip. That show had had some earlier cliffhangers that were better in my opinion, like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfDu16n-Yyo

My all time favourite cliffhanger episode is the 1974 end of year cliffhanger from Australian soap 'Number 96'. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0663236/combined

It is no longer on youtube but is on DVD.

The episode explores the following main storylines:

The pantyhose murderer still has the residents living in fear.

Dorrie and her lodger and life long friend Flo are rivals in the elections for President of their Senior Citizens club.

Gay couple Don and Dudley masquerade as two straight men as Don's sister Carol (who is staying in their flat) is dating a raging homophobe, Brad. Brad insist on a dinner out with Don and Dud's girlfriends so Dudley picks up two giggly girls in the wine bar for the dinner. Brad is annoyed when no one wants to go clubbing (the girls need to be home by 11 and Dud is staying the night with his aunt who has been unwell) so goes home with Carol to stay the night with her.

Arnold Feather is called for an interview in Canberra for a hotel job in Tahiti. His wife Patti happily (and successfully) arranges his flights so he will make the interview in time, as it is later that evening. Later, Patti announces to Dorrie and Herb that Arnold got the job and they will be leaving Number 96 and moving to Tahiti!

Cliffhangers:
Dorrie loses the election to Flo. Fearing that the boasting Flo will be impossible to live with, Dorrie declares she will ask her to move out.

During the night, Brad leaves the sleeping Carol creeps into Don's bedroom and tries to get into bed with him, declaring "I'm crazy for you Don. Can I sleep with you, please!?"

Arnold arrives home late, as neighbour Andy is heading out. He invites Andy in to the flat as he called Patti three hours earlier about his successful interview and she was going to go buy some champagne, so perhaps Andy would like to join the celebration? They enter the flat and discover that Patti has been strangled to death by the pantyhose murderer.


My other favourites include the Dynasty Moldavian massacre which someone else already posted, and the 'Prisoner' fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agay4DPVrHc.
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Old 04-11-2014, 18:28
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The Sunset Beach earthquake was pretty epic at the time, and produced some great cliffhangers. This is when the quake hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsXdliOZqU

And this is when the tsunami hit the cruise ship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ46c8saOgs#t=286

The Bold and the Beautiful: Sheila shoots Taylor and Brooke (pretty epic music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fheJs...oR7-ae7w#t=332

Neighbours 1997 season finale was one their most memorable cliffhangers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMrOuyqkhF4#t=952

Days of our Lives Coronation Massacre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08Xmgrwl6I

Emmerdale plane crash (epic, but I don't think the episode should have ended on Jack/Sarah): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqs6SmShZ7M#t=932
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Old 04-11-2014, 18:36
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This one from Falcon Crest was effective in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOyFWR2cp-E

A bit tame compared to the Dynasty and Days of our Lives shootings already posted though.
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Old 04-11-2014, 19:00
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Melrose Place: Kimberley blows up the apartment complex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVTsPpKbS3U

Also from Melrose Place: Kimberley reveals her hideous scar (this was pretty shocking at the time, IIRC). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICyYiJiDGN0
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Old 04-11-2014, 19:46
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A 2 minute clip where a popular soap (no longer with us) ends in extreme high drama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0cvHHoMOk

What has been your favourite cliffhanger over the years?

You ain't my muvva?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgUf9hlTnnU

This horrific car accident?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NVR-qwjgiw
What's so funny about this cliffhanger is that there is another cliffhanger from that episode that's not featured in this clip where Craig is kicked in the head by a horse so the writers went for a triple animal catastrophe cliffhanger that year! They were clearly running out of ideas by then.

This one from Falcon Crest was effective in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOyFWR2cp-E

A bit tame compared to the Dynasty and Days of our Lives shootings already posted though.
Falcon Crest's big WTF cliffhanger was the earthquake at the end of season 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRY0Y2bSLps

Knots Landing was the only one of the big 80's soaps that didn't go too OTT with any of it's cliffhangers. They were dramatic alright but they never included natural disasters, massacres or aliens. Even the two season wonder that was Flamingo Road got in on the act when their finale included a character being shot dead only to be resurrected through voodoo.
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Old 05-11-2014, 09:09
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Some suspect they got the idea for the Melrose Place bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiX1SnOe4kc#t=392 from the Number 96 bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4x-eJvn0H8

Knots Landing might not have done too many flashy cliffhangers, but for anyone that followed the storyline of Val's kidnapped twins, this cliffhanger was stunning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppj7tI0UkE8

In an early KL cliffhanger Sid Fairgate drove his car off a cliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuaV_Wvzx4M
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Old 05-11-2014, 10:46
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Some suspect they got the idea for the Melrose Place bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiX1SnOe4kc#t=392 from the Number 96 bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4x-eJvn0H8

Knots Landing might not have done too many flashy cliffhangers, but for anyone that followed the storyline of Val's kidnapped twins, this cliffhanger was stunning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppj7tI0UkE8

In an early KL cliffhanger Sid Fairgate drove his car off a cliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuaV_Wvzx4M
The season with the Val storyline was amazing. Even things that would have come off as camp or OTT on another soap like the Verna Ellers arc, was done brilliantly on Knots. And the cliffhanger managing to include nearly every character was great too. They did another great one (the year prior to the babies possibly) that involved the showdown at a hotel where there was a shooting, a kidnapping and a return from the dead and again it was all executed so well.

Speaking of literal cliffhangers, Dynasty season two ended with Blake Carrington being left for dead as he teetered on the edge of a cliff.
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Old 05-11-2014, 14:56
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I can't believe I forgot the final episode of Eldorado! I loved The Rado ...

- Blair does a runner after being caught selling drugs, leaving the Lockhead family shocked and desperate.
- Freddie has a date, helping him to recover from Javier's death.
- Olive has a job, helping her recover from debt problems.
- Roberto and daughter-in-law Ingrid kiss, and she runs off.
- Rosemary is frantic about husband Stanley's disappearance: there's a knock at the door, and a woman claims to be Stanley's wife.
- Marcus is thought dead in a car bomb: Trish (rightly) blames Alex but he threatens her and reminds her that she has only just married him. Pilar and Marcus are reunited and sail into the sunset on his yacht.

Brilliantly done.

I miss The Rado ...
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Old 05-11-2014, 18:04
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One great (clever and unexpected) Knots Landing cliffhanger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUu6SSDN_yk

Here's the KL hotel lobby shooting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRKz1WLMBlA

Another goodie from Falcon Crest was the (lethal) plane crash which had a good suspenseful buildup (and recalled Airport `77!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HesKuMeZ2Q

Unfortunately the resolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HesKuMeZ2Q was a bit of a let down for me. Similar to Dynasty's Moldavian massacre the resolution is a smaller-scale affair where the top stars troop out one by one and announce the deaths (of the supporting characters - who most viewers could guess would have been scripted to die.)
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Old 05-11-2014, 18:51
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Who killed JR.....no contest

In the days before spoilers millions of people tuned in...it was also primetime BBC news as the episode tape was floiwn in complete with security guards
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