The Power of the Doctor isn't the only Doctor Who episode that leaves your jaw on the floor...
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00:00 Since it first hit the air in 1963,
00:02 "Doctor Who" has pulled out some of the greatest
00:04 episode endings in British TV history.
00:07 The size and scope of a show about the entirety
00:10 of time and space means that literally anything
00:12 can happen to the Doctor and their companions,
00:15 which has led to some truly memorable cliffhangers
00:17 over the years.
00:18 Drastic decisions, mind-blowing plot twists,
00:20 events totally changing out of left field,
00:23 it's all happened in "Doctor Who."
00:25 So we've rounded up 10 endings that left viewers
00:27 wondering what the hell they just witnessed.
00:29 Usually in a good way, but not always.
00:31 I'm Jess from WhatCulture and here are 10 "Doctor Who"
00:34 endings nobody saw coming.
00:36 Number 10, "The Time of Angels."
00:38 The Weeping Angels was still new and exciting
00:40 when this episode rolled around.
00:42 Before their creator, Stephen Moffat,
00:43 diluted their effectiveness,
00:45 the Angels were a force to be reckoned with
00:47 and had the 11th Doctor and his friends
00:49 cornered underground with seemingly nowhere to run.
00:52 After some back and forth with the strangely charismatic
00:55 Angel Bob, the Doctor announces that his enemies
00:58 have made a huge mistake by placing him in a trap.
01:01 He then grabs a pistol and shoots the gravity globe
01:03 that had been illuminating the cave.
01:05 It's not the greatest cliffhanger in the world,
01:07 so why does this episode appear on the list?
01:09 Well, because the Doctor used a gun.
01:11 Fans had been repeatedly told that the Doctor
01:13 hated all weapons, especially guns,
01:16 always opting for the peaceful solution to any conflict.
01:19 To see Matt Smith's incarnation of the character
01:21 wield one so freely and so early in his lifespan
01:24 was more than a little jarring.
01:26 While he didn't fire it at a living creature,
01:28 the juxtaposition of the universe's peacekeeper
01:31 holding a firearm was enough to leave fans going,
01:34 and all together now, what?
01:35 Number nine, The Dominators, part five.
01:38 This second Doctor serial pitted the Time Lord
01:40 against the titular race,
01:42 known for their use of nuclear radiation
01:44 to power their technology.
01:45 The Dominators plan to destroy the peaceful planet of Delchis
01:48 and use its remains as fuel,
01:50 something that the Doctor inevitably doesn't take kindly to.
01:53 In fact, he takes so unkindly to it
01:55 that he decides to obliterate them all with a nuclear weapon.
01:58 In the serial's final episode,
02:00 the evil aliens attempt to blow up Delchis
02:03 using small atomic bombs called seeds.
02:05 However, the Doctor manages to stop the seeds
02:08 from entering the planet's core
02:09 and smuggles one back aboard the Dominators' ship.
02:12 The episode ends with the TARDIS flying away
02:14 from a huge nuclear explosion
02:16 that presumably killed every single Dominator on board.
02:19 This level of rampant destruction
02:21 is not something that modern fans
02:22 would associate with the Doctor.
02:24 Even at the time, this would have been considered
02:25 a little over the top,
02:27 especially with the real-world threat
02:28 of nuclear devices looming large.
02:30 Number eight, "Last of the Time Lords."
02:33 "Last of the Time Lords" served not only
02:35 as the climax to "New Who" series three,
02:37 but also as the last regular appearance
02:40 of companion Martha Jones.
02:41 She bids the Doctor goodbye at the end of this episode,
02:44 leaving Number 10 alone once again.
02:47 Poor fella.
02:47 However, he has no time to mope around
02:49 because the bow of a ship called Titanic
02:52 crashes through the walls of the TARDIS.
02:54 The Doctor's expression of bewilderment says it all.
02:56 He even says, "What?" right after this happens.
02:59 The collision of worlds was to set up
03:01 the Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned,"
03:03 which saw the Doctor team up with Kylie Minogue
03:05 to escape a doomed space liner also named Titanic.
03:09 You'd think they would've learned from the first time.
03:11 It's safe to say that nobody had
03:13 "Crashes into the Titanic"
03:14 on their Doctor Who bingo card that year,
03:16 but this bizarre ending helped cut through
03:18 the sadness of losing Martha
03:20 and created much intrigue for the upcoming holiday episode.
03:23 Number seven, "The Doctor's Daughter."
03:25 Sticking with 10 now and that time he met his daughter,
03:28 who would go on to become his wife,
03:30 who's actually the daughter of himself.
03:32 Yeah, look, this episode gets weird
03:33 when you get meta with it.
03:34 The Doctor's Daughter takes place on a planet
03:36 where human beings use cloning to provide soldiers
03:39 for their war against the Hearth.
03:40 When the Doctor is cloned upon arrival,
03:42 we get Jenny, his daughter,
03:44 who is played by Georgia Moffat,
03:46 fifth Doctor Peter Davison's real-life daughter,
03:48 and David Tennant's real-life wife.
03:51 Again, meta.
03:52 After growing attached to Jenny across the episode,
03:54 the Doctor is devastated when she takes a bullet for him
03:57 and dies from her injuries.
03:58 However, after he leaves the planet,
04:00 Jenny is brought back to life
04:02 via the mystical power of the Source.
04:04 Fans assumed that Jenny was a one-off character,
04:07 nothing more than a plot device
04:08 to teach the Doctor some lessons about parenthood.
04:10 Seeing her get revived and then jet off into space
04:13 on her own adventures was pretty surprising
04:15 and left viewers hoping for further interactions
04:17 with Jenny in the future.
04:18 It's just a shame we haven't seen her on TV
04:20 since this episode aired in 2008.
04:22 Number six, Vengeance on Varos, part one.
04:26 Although Colin Baker was far from the only guilty party
04:28 in Doctor Who's first major decline,
04:30 his detractors got some catharsis
04:32 in Vengeance on Varos' first episode.
04:35 While searching for a valuable mineral
04:36 to repair the TARDIS with,
04:38 the Doctor and his companion, Perry,
04:40 are held captive by the governor of the planet Varos.
04:43 The Doctor manages to escape,
04:45 but ends up stranded in a desert
04:46 and begins to die of thirst.
04:48 At least, that's what we're led to believe.
04:51 On Varos, public torture and executions
04:53 are viewed as a form of entertainment.
04:55 Think Big Brother, but way worse.
04:57 Actually, not that much worse.
04:58 The Doctor is only hallucinating the desert
05:01 due to the effects of a structure
05:02 called the Punishment Dome,
05:04 with his struggles being broadcast across the planet.
05:06 When the governor orders the transmission be cut,
05:09 the credits on the actual episode begin to roll.
05:11 A clever ending that would've fit perfectly
05:13 into the metaphoric world of today,
05:15 this episode must've blown everyone's minds
05:18 when it first premiered in the '80s.
05:20 Number five, The Almost People.
05:22 The actual plotline of series six's
05:24 The Rebel Flash/The Almost People
05:27 is so inconsequential that we're not even
05:29 gonna bother recapping it.
05:30 All you need to know is that after defeating
05:32 a group of rogue human duplicates
05:34 working in an acid factory,
05:35 the Doctor reveals that Amy Pond
05:37 is actually a duplicate of herself.
05:39 The episode then cuts to the real Amy,
05:41 who's trapped in a pristine white room.
05:44 Oh, and she's also pregnant.
05:45 She's confronted by a lady with an eye patch
05:48 who tells her that she's about to give birth.
05:50 The episode then goes off the air
05:51 with Amy screaming through the pains of labor.
05:54 At the same time, across the country,
05:56 millions of people watching Doctor Who
05:57 all came down with a serious case of plot whiplash.
06:01 This ending threw a huge curveball at the audience,
06:03 who were expecting just the conclusion
06:05 to the two-part storyline.
06:06 Instead, the episode completely bulldozed
06:09 through that plot and set in motion
06:10 a chain of events that would affect
06:12 the entire rest of the series.
06:14 Number four, "The Name of the Doctor."
06:16 2013's "The Name of the Doctor"
06:18 begins with the Doctor and Clara
06:20 hunting down a being called the Great Intelligence,
06:23 which has captured their friends,
06:24 Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Strax.
06:26 The Intelligence, played by Richard E. Grant,
06:29 wants to go back in time and undo
06:31 all of the good work the Doctor has done,
06:33 and so Clara and the Doctor enter his time stream
06:35 to protect it from the Intelligence.
06:37 In doing so, they come across a shadowy figure
06:40 lurking in the depths of the Doctor's memories.
06:42 This figure is the Doctor, but he's also not.
06:45 He's a man who did awful things during the Time War
06:47 in order to save the universe.
06:49 He is the War Doctor.
06:50 Stood there was the unmissable figure of John Hurt,
06:54 portraying the Doctor's greatest secret.
06:56 His story was fleshed out in the 50th anniversary special,
06:58 "The Day of the Doctor," but at this point,
07:01 viewers were as baffled by Hurt's arrival
07:03 as they were captivated.
07:04 Even hardcore Whovians didn't know
07:06 there was a secret Doctor between eight and nine,
07:09 and that's because Moffat had only just made him up.
07:11 Still, this was one of the biggest bombshells
07:13 in the show's history.
07:14 Number three, the Daleks.
07:16 There's no greater or more recognizable Doctor Who villain
07:20 than those lovable, plunger-wielding tin cans, the Daleks.
07:23 Straight from the planet Skaro,
07:25 the Daleks stand for everything the Doctor opposes,
07:28 war, subjugation, apathy, and hatred.
07:30 Their iconic design has become a symbol of the show
07:33 all over the world, and their catchphrase of exterminate
07:36 is now part of TV lexicon.
07:38 The Daleks' first appearance came at a first Doctor serial
07:41 from 1963 and '64 called, well, "The Daleks."
07:45 The first episode of the serial
07:46 ends with companion Barbara being accosted by a Dalek
07:49 in what has been described as one of the series'
07:51 best-ever cliffhangers.
07:53 The Daleks were a revolution,
07:55 and there is tangible evidence that their appearance
07:57 led to a spike of interest in the show.
07:59 They have remained a fixture of Doctor Who
08:01 for over half a century,
08:02 and all of their incredible storylines and moments
08:05 can be traced back to this shocking ending.
08:07 Number two, "The Caves of Androzani," part four.
08:11 At the end of the 1984 serial, "The Caves of Androzani,"
08:14 the fifth Doctor succumbs to an illness caused by a toxin.
08:18 After hallucinating the faces of his past companions,
08:21 the Doctor regenerates into a new form,
08:23 swapping out the visage of Peter Davison
08:25 for that of Colin Baker.
08:27 It wasn't just the character's appearance that had changed.
08:30 Something was different about this new Doctor,
08:32 and something felt a little off.
08:34 His first line in the role,
08:36 "You were expecting someone else,"
08:37 was delivered with a biting sarcasm
08:40 that felt very out of place
08:41 with the bubbly, eccentric Doctors of old.
08:43 This harsher portrayal of the character
08:45 lasted less than three years,
08:47 but the initial introduction
08:48 of this more serious version of the Doctor
08:50 is something that fans are still grappling with to this day.
08:53 Number one, "The Stolen Earth."
08:55 Between this, his actual regeneration,
08:58 and his appearance as the 14th Doctor,
09:00 David Tennant really loves shooting bright lights
09:02 out of his hands and face, doesn't he?
09:04 Back when he was the 10th Doctor,
09:05 Tennant's era on the show looked like it was coming
09:07 to a premature end when he got himself shot by a Dalek
09:11 in "The Stolen Earth."
09:12 Moments after seeing Rose for the first time
09:14 since she departed the TARDIS,
09:15 the Doctor suffered this seemingly fatal wound
09:18 and had to be ushered back to his blue box
09:20 by Rose, Donna, and Captain Jack.
09:22 As his companions fret around him,
09:24 the Doctor's hands begin to glow
09:26 that familiar orange-yellow hue.
09:28 He then gets to his feet and unleashes a salvo of energy,
09:31 beginning the process of changing his face.
09:33 There had been no news of Tennant leaving the show
09:36 when this episode aired,
09:37 so fans were left completely aghast
09:39 when they saw their hero regenerate.
09:40 Were they really going to replace him without warning?
09:43 And if not, how would they get around the fact
09:45 that he'd already begun regenerating?
09:47 The answer would come in the next episode of the show,
09:49 but that week was a very long one for "Doctor Who" fans.
09:53 That's the end of our list,
09:54 but let me know down in that comment section
09:56 which "Doctor Who" endings you did not see coming
09:58 and which ones are your favorites.
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