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Originally Posted by Paul M
As I recall, this happened in at least one of the Jon Pertwee stories as well.
Frontier in Space, which led onto Planet of the Daleks.
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Each regeneration episode in the classic era (as well as the modern) was also a cliffhanger. There were also story arcs in the classic series, which didn’t always have overt cliffhangers between stories but would pick up where the previous one left off.
The whole of Tom Baker’s first series (season 12), with the exception of Robot (his very first story) is an arc that starts and finishes on the same space station at two different points in time, interrupted by the Time Lords kidnapping the Doctor and sending him to Skaro to prevent the Genesis of the Daleks.
Season 16 was the Key to Time story arc which ran for the whole season; season 18 has the E-space trilogy, then the return of the Master who gets a trilogy that continues into season 19 and Peter Davison’s first outing. Actually that trilogy has a genuine cliffhanger linking each story - the Master is revealed in his new body at the end of the Keeper of Traken, plus of course there’s the small matter of the Doctor being thrown from a radio telescope by the Master at the end of Logopolis.
I have to stop here, missus’ eye rolling is getting unbearable...