As a sequel to the original Star Trek's " Mirror, Mirror " proved popular while " Part II " had an ending which was a cliffhanger.

Dark Angel is one of many shows ending with a cliffhanger scene that left critical questions open when the series was cancelled.

She rejoined her co-stars for Dynasty: The Reunion, a 1991 miniseries that concluded the series which had been left with a cliffhanger ending after its abrupt cancellation.

Although the series was under contract for five seasons, it was abruptly cancelled after production had ended on its fourth season, effectively ending the series on a cliffhanger.

Such was the case with the second season of Twin Peaks, which ended in a cliffhanger similar to the first season with a high degree of uncertainty about the fate of the protagonist, but the cliffhanger could not save the show from being canceled, resulting in the unresolved ending.

Sometimes a series ends with an unintended cliffhanger caused by a very abrupt ending without a satisfactory dénouement, but merely assuming that the viewer will assume that everything sorted itself out.

Some critics thought that the number of scenes with expository dialog worked against the film, and the many unresolved subplots, as well as the cliffhanger ending, were also criticized.

While the sitcom managed to increase its audience every new season and spawned a spin-off named The Parkers, the network decided to cancel the show after six seasons on the air, leaving it ending with a cliffhanger for a scrapped seventh season.

Rembrandt willingly injects himself with the virus and slides alone back to Earth Prime to fight the Kromaggs, ending the series in a cliffhanger.

However, to finalise Coupling, Moffat posted some short storyline " conclusions " about the eventual fate of the characters on the website Outpost Gallifrey., although he finished by ending Jeff's story on a humorous cliffhanger.

6 months ) due to poor sales, leaving the four heroes in the middle of an adventure and – like the final episode of the then yet to be broadcast second season of the television series – on a cliffhanger ending that would never be resolved.

The episodes then featured a short, usually satirical, adventure in the form of a movie serial, ending with a cliffhanger.

After the end of the third season, two TV movies were produced in 2001: Daemon Rising, which addressed the problem the Guardians were facing in season three, and My Two Bobs, which brings back a very corroded and mutated Megabyte in a cliffhanger ending.

The ending is unknown since the series ended on a cliffhanger.

The personal price he pays in that episode sparks an obsession with the safety of his Sandbaggers and the survival of the special section in subsequent episodes, contributing to Burnside's gradual psychological unravelling and the series ' unresolved cliffhanger ending.

All the games in the series begin with a quick opening sequence that quickly establishes the game's premise, often ending with a cliffhanger, followed by a title card.

" At the end of the episode, the screen shows the words " To Be Continued ," but The Amanda Show was cancelled shortly thereafter ending sketch in a cliffhanger.

" Many viewers were shocked and angry over this cliffhanger ending.

About half-way through the series, the show was removed from America's Cartoon Network, ending on a cliffhanger.

The two-part premiere of the latter resolved the cliffhanger ending and established the Rangers ' new powers ( as well as new foes, the Machine Empire ).

The SNES version of the first game features an extended ending which ties to the sequel Art of Fighting 2, rather than ending the game on a cliffhanger like the original Neo Geo version does.

One-day cricket is popular with spectators as it can encourage aggressive, risky, entertaining batting, often results in cliffhanger endings, and ensures that a spectator can watch an entire match without committing to five days of continuous attendance.

This novel is a continuation of the story that ends in a cliffhanger in The Vampire Lestat and explores the rich history and mythology of the origin of the vampires, which dates back to Ancient Egypt.

The adult Sela appears in two 2-part episodes of the series ( including the Season 4 cliffhanger finale where she is first revealed ), and is also played by Denise Crosby.

A cliffhanger is hoped to ensure the audience will return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma.

It is a central theme and framing device of the collection of stories known as the One Thousand and One Nights, wherein the queen Scheherazade, who is facing a morning execution on the orders of her husband, King Shahryar, devises the solution of telling him a story but leaving it at a cliffhanger, thus forcing the king to postpone her execution to hear the rest of the tale.

Despite the rhetorical distaste all serial authors used the cliffhanger and Wilkie Collins is famous for saying about the technique: " Make ' em cry, make ' em laugh, make ' em wait – exactly in that order.

Collins is famous for the Sensation Novel, which relied heavily upon the cliffhanger.

To such a degree, in fact, that series writers no longer feel they have to be immediately resolved, or even referenced, when the next episode is shown --- for example, the last episode of the second series of Graham Linehan's The IT Crowd ended with a substantial cliffhanger that was not addressed until the third episode of series three, variously because the writer didn't feel it was " a strong enough opener ," or simply " couldn't be bothered.

In 2012, Fox TV series, Glee, gave way to a cliffhanger with its winter finale episode " On My Way " where Quinn Fabray ( played by Dianna Agron ) is involved in a car accident after responding to a text message while driving.

Tracy Tormé successfully petitioned for a chance to resolve the cliffhanger, though, which is briefly dealt with in the opening minutes of " Into the Mystic " ( the third episode filmed, but the first to air that season ) where the life threatening wound is now a flesh wound in his shoulder allowing for a quick recovery.

* In a cliffhanger on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, businessman Sam Reynolds is believed to be dead after he perished in Africa.

" This plot twist is never resolved and has thus created a cliffhanger.

In the third season cliffhanger, Alexis lures Krystle to Steven's cabin and the two are locked inside while the cabin is set ablaze by an unseen arsonist ( later revealed to be Joseph, who had meant for the fire to kill only Alexis and not Krystle ).

Undoubtedly the most famous Dynasty cliffhanger is the so-called " Moldavian massacre " during the May 1985 season finale.

Williams writes, " Whether Buffy will eventually provide an alternative model of womanhood is perhaps the series ' most intriguing cliffhanger.

Producers were keen to capitalize on that love / hate family relationship of J. R .' s, building anticipation to a fever-pitch in the 1980 cliffhanger season finale in which J. R. is shot.

This means much of David Jason's ' cliffhanger ' narration is not present on the DVDs.

It is not yet known which characters, aside from the main 4, will return or whether it will resolve the cliffhanger at the end of series 8 or be a follow on or prequel to Back to Earth.

During each episode, he provided an omniscient viewpoint of the situations presented, and regularly interjected comical asides during crucial plot points ( often, during a freeze frame of a cliffhanger scene right before a commercial break ) and " down home " aphorisms.

Each episode had its own plot, and ends with a cliffhanger.

Their survival is not explained in the following Green Wing Special, and this plot device could be a criticism of the " cliffhanger " method of generating tension and ratings.

* Game of Thrones: Fire and Blood ( 2011 ) and Valar Morghulis ( 2012 ), the first and second season finales, focus on and lead up to the events of the next season and end on a cliffhanger, with the climax of the season's plot usually addressed in the penultimate episode.

Because of its origins, the length of the episodes, and the lack of the cliffhanger style of episode endings, many entrenched serial fans refuse to acknowledge it as a serial, although it clearly has a single story line and the plot progresses from chapter to chapter with no capacity to run any of them individually or in any but one order ( the episodes carried chapter numbers and titles on the theatrical prints ).

Unfortunately, this plot line was unresolved and Season 1 ended in a cliffhanger, although season two's premiere has Sammo alluding to Lee Hei's death ( by way of accusing a one-shot villain of trying to avenge it ).

In 1913, through a collaborative partnership with the Chicago Tribune, Selig produced The Adventures of Kathlyn, introducing a dramatic serial plot device which came to be known as the cliffhanger.

Also, usually a plot finishes at mid-episode and a new plot begins, so that every episode finishes with a cliffhanger.

The decision cuts off into a cliffhanger, where a narrator asks three questions: " Will Professor Chaos ' latest plot succeed and be the final undoing of Earth?