List of cliffhanger endings

Godzilla film series

The original Japanese film, Gojira (1954) ends with Dr. Yamane saying that he doubted there was only one Godzilla creature, and that if mankind wasn't more careful with its use of nuclear weapons, other monsters would undoubtedly come and wreak havoc. (To soften the general message, this was removed in the heavily re-edited American version, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [1956].) This is shown to be true when another Godzilla does return in Godzilla Raids Again (1955).
While Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965) does end on a happy note, Godzilla and Rodan are not proven to have survived until subsequent films. Ghidorah does not die in the end, but instead flies out to space. The Xilians appear to survive (although they do not make another appearance in the series, unless the alternate versions from Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) are counted).
Son of Godzilla (1967) ends with Godzilla and Minilla being frozen in a nuclear winter.
Gigan and Ghidorah both survive the events of Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972).
Gigan also does not die in Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973). Although his death is shown in the TV series Zone Fighter, its canonicity is disputed.
In Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974), the Black Hole Planet 3 Aliens are not completely destroyed and therefore are able to return for Terror of Mechagodzilla.
The ending of The Return of Godzilla (1984) is not clear about whether Godzilla dies or not, instead leaving the audience after he is lured into an active volcano.
Because Godzilla is still perceived as a villain at this point in the Heisei series, the ending of Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), in which Godzilla is not killed by the Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria, but shakes it off and goes back to the sea, counts as a cliffhanger.
The same is true for Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991), where the last scene shows Godzilla awakening underwater and angrily thrashing about and spouting his atomic ray, and, by extension, Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) (not to be confused with the 1962 film Mothra vs. Godzilla) and perhaps also Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993).
The characters say in the ending of Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) that another, possibly worse monster than SpaceGodzilla might show itself again one day unless man did something about it, slightly like the original film (though with a much less somber tone).
In Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, after Godzilla melts down, all of his radiation is absorbed by Godzilla's son. As the smoke clears, it is revealed that Godzilla Jr. has grown into an adult Godzilla.
After the end credits of Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000), in which it is said towards the end that Godzilla may not have been killed by the Dimension Tide black hole gun after all but instead simply transported underneath Tokyo, the child character featured in the film ("Kenny," unofficially) is putting away something in the science lab. As he is walking out, the ground starts to shake, he looks out in horror at something out the window the audience cannot see, and Godzilla's roar is heard.
In the end of Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001), Godzilla's heart is shown still beating at the bottom of Tokyo Bay, indicating that it is still alive and in the process of regenerating a new body.
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) ends with Godzilla heading out to sea, grievously injured, Kiryu badly damaged and unable to fight, and Akane swearing that the next time they meet, Godzilla will be defeated.
After the end credits of Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003), a secret lab is shown that has samples of kaiju.

Friday the 13th film series

Friday the 13th (1980 film): Tierney says that they didn't find any boy in the lake, implying that Jason is still there
Friday the 13th Part 2: Ginny wakes up and discovers Paul is not there and asks where he is
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter: As Tommy hugs his sister, he looks psychotically at the camera.
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning: Tommy dons Roy Burn's Jason mask and raises a knife to stab Pam Roberts.
Friday the 13th (2009 film): After supposedly being killed, Jason bursts up through the wooden docks and grabs Whitney as the film ends.

Spider-Man 2: Harry Osborn discovers the Green Goblin's lair and picks up a vial of the Performance Enhancers formula.
X2: X-Men United: Jean Grey dies getting the X-Jet to safety. The Brotherhood of mutants leave with a new member, Pyro.
X-Men: The Last Stand: A powerless Magneto moves a magnetic chess piece without touching, implying that his powers will return.
Dragonball Evolution: Lord Piccolo is resurrected after the credits.
Bhoothnath: Bhoothnath retuns to tell Banku that he will always be there for help whenever Banku remembers him, and the film ends with a "To be continued" card.
Masters of the Universe: Skeletor says that he would be back.
Street Fighter (1994): After the end credits, a scene depicts the believed-dead Bison's fist smashing through the rubble of his base.
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994): Ryu, while walking alone down a street, is suddenly attacked from behind by M. Bison, who was thought dead, in a huge truck. Ryu prepares to fight Bison again and the film ends.
The Italian Job (1969): Possibly the most famous film cliffhanger for being a literal example of the term, as it ends with the main character's escape vehicle hanging halfway off a cliff in the Swiss Alps.
Halloween series

Halloween: The film ends with Michael Myers being shot down from the balcony. Minutes later he is gone. Some clips are exhibit from the house, showing that he is not in the building.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers: Jamie Lloyd, apparently posessed by Michael, stabs her foster mother with a pair of scissors and then stands at the top of the stairs while Dr. Loomis and the police look up at her in horror.
Halloween 5: The film ends with Jamie seeing that Myers' cell is empty and he is gone.
Halloween: Resurrection: A female doctor opens his bodybag and his eyes suddenly open.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003): The film ends with the revelation that the Bride's unborn daughter is still alive, followed by a cut to black.
Inspector Gadget 2: Dr. Claw escapes and vows revenge in the end of the film.
Final Destination: Alex saves Clear from being killed, and the two of them and Carter head to Paris. While they are there, however, a sign falls off its shingles and nearly hits Alex. He is pushed out of the way by Carter, only for the three of them to realize Death has skipped Alex. The film ends as Carter asks "So who's next?" and he is struck by the sign as the screen flashes to black.
Child's Play 2: In the alternate television ending, Chucky's face is remade in the Play Pals Toys factory, which gives an evil smile.
Bride of Chucky: A baby is born from Tiffany and attacks the police officer as the film ends.
Seed of Chucky: Chucky's arm leaps and grabs Glen's neck and laughs evilly as the film ends.
The Evil Dead: Ash welcomes daybreak as the only survivor of the demonic feast that possessed and killed his friends and sister. As he steps out of the cabin, relieved to have survived the ordeal, the Unseen Evil spirit rushes through the forest in his direction, breaks its way through the cabin's doors and eventually reaches Ash, who screams in terror as the screen cuts to black.
Evil Dead II: Ash is sent back in time, where he is trapped and the knights hail him.
Flash Gordon (1980): Ming's ring is picked up by an unknown individual. As this happens, the words "The End?" appear.
Stealth (2005): After the credits, EDI is shown to be still online, but in pieces.
Silent Hill (2006): The film's main character Rose rescues her daughter and both escape the town of Silent Hill. When she and her daughter arrive home, the environment and interior of the house mirror the conditions of Silent Hill. Rose's husband, Christopher, sees from the living room that the front door is open but no one is nearby. The film ends with both Rose and her husband in the living room unable to see one another and no evidence to whether Rose and her daughter can return to normal.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006): Jack is eaten by the Kraken. As the remaining survivors head to Tia's place and she claims they can get Jack back at World's End, but they need a captain to get there. Captain Barbossa comes downstairs (even though he was seen dying in the first film).
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007): Barbosa makes off with the Black Pearl yet again, but not before Jack steals a piece of the map leading to the Fountain of Youth, setting up the events of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002): Scott Evil takes over his reformed father's empire and vows revenge on Austin Powers as the film ends.
Casino Royale (2006): The package containing the stolen British Secret Service money which would be shipped to terrorists is lost in a Venice building collapse near the ending. At the very end, James Bond shoots the mysterious terrorist Mr. White in the leg, without revealing the purpose of Mr. White's terrorist organization or whether he lives. Bond walks onscreen with a gun and says "The name's Bond. James Bond," as the screen fades out. The following film, Quantum of Solace, begins moments after this scene.
Saw (2004): As it is revealed that Jigsaw was in the bathroom with them the whole time, Adam attempts to shoot him but is electrocuted through the shackle on his leg. Jigsaw informs him that it's "Game Over" and he slams the door shut as Adam realizes he is now trapped alone. He can be heard screaming even while the credits begin to roll. The following sequels tend to continue the pattern of using a twist ending and then leaving a cliffhanger where the survival of the main character is in question.
Quarantine (2008): After being attacked by an infected creature, the only survivor Angela Vidal crawls towards the camera while the vision is night vision. Suddenly, she is dragged back into the room by an unknown force screaming. Leaving the audience to wonder if she got infected, died, or survived the event.
Vacancy (2007): After killing Mason and the rest of the killers in the motel, Amy runs to her near-death husband David (who had been previously beaten and stabbed by the killers the night before). Upon finding him barely alive, she calls 911 using a telephone cord and goes back to caress David. The film ends with both Amy and David waiting for the cops' arrival, leaving the audience unaware if David died from the injuries or if the couple was rescued.
Batman Begins (2005): After defeating Ra's al Ghul, James Gordon showed Batman evidence of another villain on the loose. The evidence was a joker card which leads Batman and Gordon to battle the Joker in The Dark Knight.
The Dark Knight (2008): Following the death of Harvey Dent, Batman decides to let himself be blamed for the murders that Dent committed so that the people of Gotham will still have hope. Batman then vanishes into the night. Gordon destroys the batsignal and then issues a manhunt for Batman.
Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007): After Bender returns from the past and invites his time traveling duplicates, all duplicates explode and the space rips open to which Bender replies "Well we're boned!"
Dawn of the Dead (1978): In an attempt to escape the zombie-infested mall, the two remaining survivors, Peter and Fran, take off in the helicopter with only a small amount of fuel.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992): After Laura is killed and her body is discovered, the film cuts to what appears to be a scene that is after the series were Laura leaves the black lodge with her angel. It is hinted that she goes to the white lodge. Cooper watches on while he is still trapped in the lodge and BOB is still in control of his body outside of the lodge. The fates of several other characters are still left unanswered as well.
The Thing (1982): The film ends with both survivors wondering if the thing is dead or if it escaped. The film suggests that one of the two might be the thing.
Phir Hera Pheri (2006): The Bollywood film ends with Raju trying to grab hold of antique guns. Then Babu Rao and Shyam call him on his cell phone to tell him that those guns are very valuable and to stop him to throw those guns.
Swing Vote (2008): Kevin Costner's character, whose vote will decide the result of the U.S. Presidential election, steps into the voting booth and closes the curtain. His choice is never revealed.
Watchmen (2009): The film ends with the possibility of Rorshach's journal being discovered and the world being plunged into nuclear war again.
District 9 (2009): The film ends with Wikus as a prawn. A few scenes before that Christopher Johnson said he would return in three years to help Wikus become a human again.
Psycho II (1983): The film ends with Norman Bates, having become mentally ill again, murdering his aunt. After that he re-opens the Bates Motel for business while the corpse of Emma Spool watches from the Bates Mansion.
Freddy vs. Jason (2003): After the fight between Freddy and Jason, in which Freddy is decapitated, they both fall into the lake, seemingly dead. In the last scene, Jason emerges from the lake alive carrying Freddy's severed head, which winks to the audience.
Sherlock Holmes (2009): At the end Holmes deduces that Irene's employer was Professor Moriarty and he was after a different part of Blackwood's device than the one Irene stole. She tells Holmes, Moriarty is like him except more devious, where he replies "We'll see about that." When Watson and Holmes are informed a police officer was found dead near Blackwood's device, the film ends with him saying "Case reopened." Moriarty is the main antagonist of the film's 2011 sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009): Ends with Zartan being revealed to have impersonated the President of United States.

Inception (2010): In the movie's final scene, Cobb spins his totem top on a table to test reality before meeting his children, but is distracted by the long-awaited reunion. A shot of the top continuing to spin with a slight wobble is seen as the screen cuts to black, leaving it unclear if Cobb was in the real world or was still dreaming.

Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010): The movie ended without revealing the whereabouts of Jason Todd.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010): The movie ends with Voldemort breaking into Dumbledore's tomb to steal the Elder Wand, leaving people to wonder what power he will possess. (Of course this is only a cliffhanger to fans who know only the films. Those who know the original novels, more importantly Deathly Hallows know what happens in the final film because Hallows is actually one novel split into two films for its adaptation.)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011): Ends with Po accepting Mr. Ping as his father as well as being the last Giant Panda, it cuts to Po's biological father is alive in a far away hidden village of Giant Pandas and senses that his son is alive as well.
Insidious (2011): Renai finds that Elise has been strangled to death by her husband, Josh. She sees a camera on the floor and picks it up. She finds out that the old woman had not been defeated and has possessed Josh. Suddenly, he appears behind Renai, calling her name saying he's "right here". The movie ends when Renai turns around and gasps. This leaves the audience to ponder about Renai's unknown fate and if there's going to be a sequel.
The Guard (2011): After Boyle kills Sheehy and sets the boat on fire, Wendell is seen on the harbor staring at the boat. The next day, Wendell has returned from the hospital, where he sees Eugene who asks Wendell if Boyle is still alive, to which Wendell says that he isn't, but Eugene reminds Wendell that Boyle said he came 4th in the swimming event of the 1988 Olympics. The final shot of the movie is Wendell staring out into the ocean.

1 Examples of television series with regular (or notable) cliffhangers
2 Other unresolved cliffhangers
3 References
4 External links

Examples of television series with regular (or notable) cliffhangers

Of course, cliffhangers are the main "hook" of soap operas (both daytime and nighttime), but other genres also use them frequently.

24: Because of the format of the show (each episode represents one hour of one day, with a season of 24 episodes representing a complete 24 hour period), each episode can be considered a cliffhanger with many of them ending with a twist in one of the season's multiple plotlines that creates a cliffhanger leading into the next episode. However, several season finales have also involved a cliffhanger whose outcome would not be revealed until the next season. The series finale ends with Jack Bauer fleeing the country. Overall Season 3 is the only season finale to not end with a cliffhanger.
Alias: The first half of season one had each episode end with a cliffhanger. While this format was largely abandoned midway through season one, the season finales often ended on cliffhangers.
Angel: Each season ends on a cliffhanger.

Season 1: Angel's deceased vampire sire (and lover) is resurrected.
Season 2: Angel, Cordelia, and Wesley discover that Buffy sacrificed herself to save the world.
Season 3: Angel is imprisoned in a steel box by his son Connor, and dropped to the bottom of the ocean to live forever confined and alone. Meanwhile Cordelia is told she has become a higher being. Wesley begins an affair with Lilah Morgan, and Lorne leaves Los Angeles to spark a career in Las Vegas.
Season 4: Angel and the team take over Wolfram and Hart. Angel also makes a deal with the senior partners that Connor be given a new life, and is erased from everybody's minds. Cordelia is left in a coma, on the edge of death.
Season 5: Angel, Spike, Gunn, and Illyria are the last team members to take on the Circle of the Black Thorn. The Senior Partners sends an army to destroy them, and the audience is left unclear whether the characters will survive.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Season 1: After saving the Northern Water Tribe, Aang, Katara and Sokka continue their quest to stop the Fire Lord and restore balance to the World. Meanwhile Fire Lord Ozai tells Zuko's sister that his brother has failed and Iroh has betrayed the Fire Nation and orders her to arrest them.
Season 2: Azula and the Dai Li stage a coup and all five major generals are captured at once. Aang is unable to stop Azula's plan and the Earth Kingdom falls to the Fire Nation. Aang is critically injured by Azula in battle, and Iroh gives him time to escape before being betrayed by Zuko. At the end of the episode, Aang and the gang escape on Appa, where Katara heals Aang using water from the Spirit Oasis. As the Gang fly atop Appa's back over the Outer Wall and out of the city, the Earth King looks back and sadly proclaims, "The Earth Kingdom... has fallen."
Season 3: In the final moments of the series, Zuko, now the new Fire Lord, visits his father's prison cell and demands him to reveal the whereabouts of his mother. But Ozai's answer is never revealed.

Bad Girls: six out of the eight series ended with a cliffhanger.

Series 2: Shell Dockley lures Officer Jim Fenner into her cell for a good night kiss, leading to them snogging on the bed, Jim is unaware that Shell is armed with a broken bottle.
Series 3: Virginia O'Kane is drowned in the bath by an unseen person. Nikki Wade and Helen Stewart are last seen snogging in the street after Nikki is released. Shell Dockley and Denny Blood avoid re-arrest by jumping off a boat in Spain.
Series 4: Snowball Merriman's escape plan involves a bomb which detonated, leaving eight of the inmates are trapped in the library, Snowball is caught and locked in a cell with revenge hungry Yvonne Atkins. Neil Grayling's life is hanging by a thread after being close to the bomb after it detonated. While a gun that was planted in Karen Betts' handbag went missing.
Series 5: Yvonne Atkins attempts to escape and is locked in a blocked off tunner under the prison by Officer Jim Fenner.
Series 6: Jim Fenner is sent to prison after CCTV footage of him framing Karen Betts for death by dangerous driving is found. Kris Yates and Selena Geeson are last seen protesting Kris' innocnce on top of a monument in London. Darlene believes she is cursed.
Series 7: The women and officers are left wondering whether the ghostly presence of Jim Fenner is gone for good.

Batman (the 1960s series): Most of the episodes ran as two half-hour shows over two days, with an announcer famously saying "Tune in tomorrow - same bat-time, same bat-channel" at the end of the first half.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The episode "Deep Cover for Batman" ended with a cliffhanger. In Season 2 several cold opens had been notorious for ending with a cliffhanger, which will eventually be resolved in an upcoming two part episode.
Battlestar Galactica: "Battlestar Galactica" uses cliffhangers regularly in every season as well as the pilot miniseries. In addition, a mid-season cliffhangers were employed from seasons 2, 3 and 4.

Miniseries: It ends revealing that Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, one of the most important of Galactica's pilots, is in fact a Cylon.
Season 1: ends with Valerii shooting Commander Adama twice in the chest.
Season 2: breaks halfway through on a cliffhanger. The initial elation of both battlestar crews upon meeting each other has totally broken down, and Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus have launched their Vipers against each other. Even the "resolution" of this cliffhanger is itself a cliffhanger, as the next episode ("Resurrection Ship (Part 1)") ends as Adama and Admiral Caine each ask a trusted lieutenant to kill the other. The season ends with the planet of New Caprica being suddenly occupied by the Cylons in force, and Kara "Starbuck" Thrace promising to "fight 'em 'til we can't."
Season 3: Midway through the season, "The Eye of Jupiter" ends with Starbuck shot down by Cylon Centurions and Adama about to launch nuclear weapons at a planet where a clue to the location of Earth is hidden. Later, the season ends with four characters discovering they are Cylons (Samuel Anders, Galen Tyrol, Saul Tigh and Tory Foster), and Starbuck returning in a pristine, brand-new Viper after her apparent death in a previous episode.
Season 4: Also breaks halfway through on a cliffhanger with the episode "Revelations", the fleet finally reaches Earth, only to discover that it is a radioactive wasteland.

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Sixteen of the twenty episodes of Season 1 have ended with a cliffhanger.
Birdy the Mighty: Decode: The first season literally ends with a "To Be Continued" The series itself also ended with several plotlines unresolved, including the fact that Birdy still did not know the true mastermind behind the Ryunka incident as well as leaving things open on whether Birdy and Nataru would be reunited again.
Breaking Bad

Season 1: While in the junkyard, Tuco's assistant tries to translate what he is saying, but Tuco kills him and tells Walt and Jesse "they're next".
Season 2: After Jane's death, Donald goes to the airport, but accidentally says Jane's name instead of another name, causing a plane to crash, leading to the events that opened the season.
Season 3: Jesse drives over to Gale's house and pulls out his gun and shoots him, his fate unknown.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Several episodes end with a cliffhanger, and from the fourth season onwards, the season would end with a major storyline carrying over 4 or 5 episodes, ending each episode with a cliffhanger. The most notable cliffhanger is in season two, where Willow succeeds in restoring Angel's soul, but Acathla is already awake. He opens his mouth, creating an expanding vortex. While Angel is disoriented, Buffy kisses him and then drives her sword through him into the vortex. The world is saved but Angel, bewildered, is sucked into hell. Buffy, feeling her life shattered, boards a bus to leave Sunnydale. Season two is the only season in the series to end on a cliffhanger.
Charmed: The season 3 finale ends with the sisters separated and two of them dying, with no way of them being healed. This gives way to season 4, with the introduction of the character Paige Matthews following the departure of Shannen Doherty as Prue.
Cheers: Before most other sitcoms even considered the idea of the season-ending cliffhanger, many seasons of Cheers ended on such. Often the cliffhangers include Sam and Diane's rocky relationship. The later seasons include more Rebecca/Sam orientated cliffhangers, often including bar ownership changes, hints at a possible romantic relationship (which never really moves past friendship), and Rebecca burning down the bar, much to Sam's dismay.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: Season 1 ends with a Mexican Standoff between three main characters and ends by cutting to black with the sound of a single gunshot.
Cold Case: Season 4 ends with Lily Rush in the hospital after being shot.
Crime Story: The first season ends with the main villains driving away from the Nevada Test Site as a nuclear bomb goes off.
Criminal Minds: Every season so far has ended with a cliffhanger.

Season 1: Furious that the team ignored his order that they not inform the media about him, the Unsub (series word for the perpetrator) comes after Agent Elle Greenaway in her home and shoots her before the credits roll.
Season 2: Section Chief Erin Strauss attempts to blackmail Agent Emily Prentiss into forcing BAU Chief Aaron Hotchner to resign.
Season 3: Investigating a terrorist group in New York City, all the team members are shown getting into different black SUVs before one of them explodes.
Season 4: BAU Chief Aaron Hotchner is shot in his apartment by his old nemesis The Reaper after returning home from work one night.

In addition, many mid-season episodes of the series end with cliffhangers as well, some of the most notable being:

Season 2, Episode 5: Traumatized after being shot in the previous season, Agent Elle Greenaway botches an undercover job and arrests a serial rapist with no evidence, which forces the team to let him go soon after. Furious, Elle follows the man home. After admitting he is in fact the rapist the team is after, Greenaway promptly shoots him in cold blood.
Season 2, Episode 14: Chasing an Unsub through a cornfield, Reid is tricked into thinking the man is in front of him rather than behind. The episode ends with the man having Reid at gunpoint.
Season 3, Episode 1: Distraught over his girlfriend's death last season, Agent Jason Gideon is shown having some sort of mental breakdown. Before the credits, Gideon holds his gun up in front of him and appears to be contemplating shooting himself.
Season 3, Episode 8: After meeting a seemingly pleasant man at a cafe, computer technician Penelope Garcia goes on a date with him. Afterward, he walks her to her front stoop. After saying goodnight, the man suddenly pulls out a gun and shoots her.
Season 4, Episode 6: Through a dreamlike flashback, Reid discovers that the man who assaulted and murdered a little boy 20 years ago may have been his own father.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Season 7: ends with Sara Sidle trapped under a car by the miniature killer.
Season 8: ends with Warrick Brown being shot twice by the Undersheriff while sitting in his car.
Season 10: ends with Raymond Langston being stabbed by serial killer Nate Haskell.
Season 11: ends before Langston can answer to Internal Affairs about whether killing Nate Haskell was self defense or murder.

CSI: Miami

Season 4: ends with Horatio Caine and Eric Delko going to Brazil to hunt down Antonio Riaz who ordered a hit on Marisol Delko-Caine.
Season 6: ends with Horatio Caine shot in the chest.
Season 7: ends with Eric Delko missing in action.
Season 8: ends with several CSIs collapsing due to poisoning in the lab.
Season 9: ends with Horatio shot and Natalia trapped in the trunk of a car sinking into the ocean.

CSI: NY

Season 4: ends with Mac Taylor being held hostage.
Season 5: ends with shots fired in a bar with the CSIs inside.
Season 6: ends with Shane Casey holding Lucy on one hand and a gun in the other when Danny entered the room, while Lindsey wakes to notice Danny is not there, and a shot is heard.

Dallas: All seasons end on a cliffhanger, most notably the episode when J.R. was shot by an unknown assailant.
Desperate Housewives: All seasons end with a cliffhanger for each of the main housewives (Susan, Lynette, Bree, and Gabi) along with one or more main cliffhangers.

Season 1: Bree's husband, Rex, dies; Gabi's husband, Carlos, is jailed, and also learns of her affair with John; Lynette is forced by her husband, Tom, to rejoin the work force and give up being a mom; Susan is inside of a house with Zach, who is holding her hostage with a gun, and the season ends as Mike enters the house, his fate uncertain.
Season 2: Gabi kicks Carlos out after discovering his affair with Xiao-Mei, but decides to keep their baby, which Xiao-Mei is carrying; Tom's daughter, Kayla, from another woman, Nora, moves to Fairview, to the chagrin of Lynette; Susan, who is living in a trailer due to Edie's burning her house down, is stood up by Mike, who was about to propose to her, who was intentionally (but for unknown reasons) hit by a car driven by Orson, who Bree later starts a relationship with.
Season 3: Susan marries Mike at a small wedding; Lynette's mother moves in with her once she finds out that she has cancer; Gabi marries Victor Lang, a politician, only to find out that he only married her for the "Latino vote"; Bree begins a fake pregnancy to cover up for her daughter's real pregnancy; the season ends as Edie presumably kills herself, however, it is revealed in the season 4 premiere that she faked the attempt.
Season 4: The series flashes forward five years in the final moments of the season 4 finale, in which Gabi is shown to have two daughters; Katherine has become good friends with the other housewives; Bree is a successful cookbook writer, still married to Orson; Lynette's sons are just as mischievous as ever; Susan is with a new man, leading the audience to wonder what happened to Mike.
Season 5: Bree begins an affair with Karl when Orson blackmails her into staying married to him; Lynette finds out that she is pregnant with twins once again; Gabi and Carlos adopt Carlos' troublesome teenage niece, Ana; Mike is shown marrying an unknown bride, the audience is lead to believe that it is either Susan or Katherine, and it was indeed Susan, as revealed in the season 6 premiere.
Season 6: Lynette has another child; Susan moves off of the lane and into a small apartment nearby; Bree loses her business due to blackmail, causing Orson to leave her, and she decides to admit that her son ran over Carlos' mother to Gabi, but her reaction is not shown. Someone on Wisteria Lane is raising a child that isn't really theirs, although it is unknown who. At the end of season, Paul Young is revealed to be the new owner of Susan's house.
Three episodes ("The Ballad of Booth", "I Remember That", and "A Spark. To Pierce the Dark."), ended with "To Be Continued...", and they all ended with characters in life-threatening situations, although none of these episodes were season finales.

Digimon: Half way in season 1 and onward, the show end with a brief announcement about the episode and a "To Be Continued".
Dynasty: All seasons except the 1991 mini-series end on a cliffhanger.
Doctor Who: Almost every episode ends in a cliffhanger
Torchwood

Series 1: ends with Captain Jack Harkness seemingly gone with the Doctor. Oddly, this cliffhanger was partly resolved in another show,
Series 2, Episode 12: Ended when a villain from earlier in the series, Captain John, returned with Jack's brother Gray hostage.
Series 3: The third series "Children of Earth" was a five part story, and therefore all the episodes minus the final ended on a cliffhanger.
Series 4:

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Almost every episode ends in a cliffhanger

Dragon Ball Series: Episodes sometimes ended during the powering-up of a special attack during a confrontation with an enemy, or just as the attack is about to be used, or other endings. The notable line, "Stay tuned for scenes from the next episode" is almost always used.
Family Guy: At the end of the episode "The Thin White Line", Brian abruptly tells the Griffins that he is leaving for good and heads to the airport in a taxi. The next episode, "Brian does Hollywood", begins with a "previously on Family Guy" recap that shows eleven fake, unrelated cliffhangers, most involving the main characters in life-threatening situations. The twelfth reveals that Brian has gone to LA to find himself.
Friends: Every season except season 6 and the final season end on a cliffhanger, with many episodes also having cliffhangers.

Season 1: Rachel realizes Ross has feelings for her, only to be eventually left shocked by his new girlfriend.
Season 2: Monica and Richard break up, while Chandler and Janice fall back in love.
Season 3: Ross has to choose between his current girlfriend and Rachel, while Phoebe discovers her mom was not her birth mother.
Season 4: At the wedding of Ross and Emily, at which Ross misspeaks and says Rachel's name at the altar, the season ends on arguably the most shocking cliffhanger. Furthermore Monica and Chandler have begun sleeping together.
Season 5: While in Vegas, Monica and Chandler are about to elope, only to discover Ross and Rachel just got married while heavily intoxicated.
Season 6: Chandler proposes to Monica and she accepts.
Season 7: Another highly popular cliffhanger is Monica and Chandler's wedding, in which the audience thinks Monica is pregnant with Chandler's child until the camera's zoom on Rachel in the very last seconds shows that it is in fact Rachel who is pregnant.
Season 8: Rachel gives birth to Emma and fears Ross will abandon her, so she accepts a misunderstood proposal from Joey.
Season 9: Rachel and Joey begin a relationship when they discover Ross and Charlie (Joey's Paleontologist girlfriend) have feelings for each other. Meanwhile Mike returns and proposes to Phoebe, much to the dismay of her current boyfriend David.

Frisky Dingo: The first season ends with Simon activating the Annihallatrix and the screen going completely white.
Fushigi Yūgi: Cliffhangers in this anime/manga are usually employed at the beginning of battle scenes, a sudden and unprecedented event (e.g. Miaka being taken away by a pair of disembodied hands at the end of Episode 8), or the revelation of another plot element (among the most notable being at the end of Episode 22, where Nakago tells Yui of another trap he has set for Miaka and the Suzaku Seven).
Modern game shows like Deal or No Deal and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, among others: The shows' respective hosts often segue to commercial breaks during suspenseful moments, usually when said moment directly influences what prize a contestant might win. Cliffhangers are almost always explicitly announced by the host, usually by means of a long pause before the phrase "Right after this (break)" or one of similar meaning. This is one of the few cases where a cliffhanger is present in front of a studio audience. An example of a game show episode ending with a cliffhanger was the ninth episode of the second season of Minute to Win It. Two cheerleaders from Atlanta were competing in the second challenge at the conclusion of the episode when the program cut to black screen.
The Gates (TV series): Devon saves Charlie's life but after he wakes up, his family realises he has red eyes and attacks his father with just a look. When Charlie's mother, Sarah, asks Devon what she did to her son, she answers: "I told you I could bring him back, I never said he'd be the same", meaning he is not a human, anymore.
George Lopez

Season 3: Carmen runs away from home with Zack Powers, Mel Powers' son, and George goes to look for her.
Season 4: Carmen announces that she wants to marry her boyfriend Jason. George and Angie say that she can't get married at 16. But Carmen says she can in Georgia if she's pregnant. George and Angie ask her if she's pregnant, and the episode ends.
Season 5: The police arrive at George's house looking for Benny. Angie thinks she may be pregnant and takes a pregnancy test. Carmen keeps getting rejection letters from college and she opens the last letter. Vic is about to propose to his new girlfriend. Ernie thinks that the Power's brothers are selling the factory, and Max is about to have his first beer.

Germany's Next Topmodel: Cycle 2: This season's eleventh episode left open the elimination of controversial contestant Fiona Erdmann.; Cycle 3: The elimination process was completely cut from this season's third episode and shown next week. Best friends Gina-Lisa Lohfink and Sarah Knappik were about to be separated on the season's sixth episode. As host Heidi Klum is about to pronounce the judgement, hysterical Knappik leaves panel with Lohfink running after her and the episode comes to an end.
Glee

Season 1 Midseason: The first midseason finale ended with Will leaving Terri and kissing Emma, who just quit her job as counselor. Sue is suspended from the school and removed as Cheerios coach. Finn finds out that Quinn's baby is really Puck's, and does not forgive him. Rachel, Quinn, and Kurt all still have feelings for Finn. New Directions must now prepare for regional competition. Artie and Tina continue to feud.
Season 1 Finale: New Directions lose at the regional championships without even being placed. Just as Glee Club seems to be finished, Sue Sylvester gives Will Schuester another year for the Glee Club. Will announces to the Glee Club that they have another year to pass Sectionals and Regionals again.

Gossip Girl

Season 3: The last scene of the third season shows 2 thugs stealing a ring that Chuck was going to give to Blair. He struggles and ends up getting shot and left to die in the alley.

Green Wing

Season 1: Literal cliffhanger, with Guy Secretan, Dr. "Mac" Macartney and Martin Dear all stuck in an ambulance hanging over the edge of a cliff.
Season 2: The same thing has happened in the second series, except instead of Guy and Mac, it is Joanna Clore and Alan Statham in a camper van, though Martin Dear is still there.

Hawaii Five-0: Season 1 ended with McGarrett and Kono arrested by the HPD.
Heroes: This show contains several cliffhangers and the end of seasons and halfway through seasons. But also, some cliffhangers are resolved as the opening scene of the next season is shown before the credits.

Season 1: An explosion in the sky of New York, injures Matt, who is last seen been loaded into an ambulance, nearly dead. A trial of blood is then seen leading from Sylar's body to an open manhole, leaving his fate unknown.
Season 2: Angela watches the news report on Peter's attack, while talking to an unidentified person on the phone. She calmly states that she understands why Nathan was attacked, but that Peter's attack has opened Pandora's Box.
Season 3, Episode 13: Meredith trapped in the fire of the CHP (Company Headquarters of Primatech), while Noah, Angela and Clare watch, and she that Meredith is inside.
Season 3: Clare, Noah, Angela, Peter, Nathan, Mohinder, Matt, Ando and Hiro gather around the burning corpse of Sylar, which is actually the morphed body of James Martin. They all go their separate ways and Nathan reveals that the President has shut down Building 26, and gives the funds to Angela and Noah who start their own company, which they call "The Company".
Season 4: Claire jumps off of a ferris wheel in front of reporters and it's unknown what their reaction is. This was also the final episode ever and the cliffhanger is never resolved.

InuYasha: Some episodes (including the series finale itself) have cliffhangers (mostly 2 to 3 part episodes). The final episode of the series, when the title character and his friends still chase after Naraku, vowing to defeat him once and for all, ends with many long-running plots unresolved, until the sequel InuYasha: The Final Act was made.
The IT Crowd:

Season 2: Jen finds out the potion is Rohypnol and locks Moss and Roy in the office with Douglas and the season ends with Jen running off and Moss and Roy screaming. The cliffhanger is resolved in Season 3, Episode 3.

iCarly: Sam and Freddie kiss while a shocked Carly looks out of a window.
Jericho

Season 1: Ended when the townspeople of Jericho open fire on the invading residents of a neighboring town, New Bern, with gunfire sounding as the credits rolled.

King of the Hill

Season 2: Explosion of a department store with Hank inside.
Season 3: Peggy having a parachute failure.

Lost: Almost every episode ends with an intense cliffhanger or a twist, season finales on the other hand end with multiple cliffhangers. For example:

Season 1: Walt is kidnapped by the Others. Also, the last shot is of Jack and Locke staring into "The Hatch," its contents as yet unknown. The theme of "What's In the Hatch?" was the main force in ABC's ad campaign for season 2.
Season 2: Desmond turns fail-safe key, in order to stop the system failure in the hatch. Jack, Kate and Sawyer end up being captured by the Others. The last scene shows two characters sitting in an arctic environment, in contrast to the tropical setting of the show, who receive an unknown message and call Ms. Widmore, saying "I think we've found it." The audience recognizes Widmore as the name of one of the islanders' ex-girlfriend.
Season 3: Last scene shows Jack and Kate confronting each other off the island. Based on the knowledge that they met on the island, the audience realizes that they are actually witnessing a glimpse into the future, as opposed to the common-place flashbacks. The final scene shows a distraught Jack shouting "We have to go back!" as Kate drives off angry.
Season 4: Last shot is of John Locke dead in an open coffin, which we initially saw in the season 3 finale without knowing who was inside. The audience is left with no idea as to how and when he has come to die.
Season 5: Near the end, Jacob is murdered and whispers to his killers "They are coming". The last scene is a badly injured Juliet detonating "Jughead", an hydrogen bomb.

Melrose Place: Every episode could be interpreted as ending with a cliffhanger. The most dramatic reserved for the season-ending episode(s) in May. The most notable, the 3rd season ending with Kimberly Shaw poised to blow up Melrose Place with the majority of the series regulars inside.
Medium

Season 5: ended with Allison DuBois is in a coma

Misfits

Season 1: After Nathan kills Rachel and destroys the Virtue organisation he loses his balance and is hanging from a rail. Simon runs up trying to rescue Nathan but Nathan and says the last words of the season "Save me, Barry!". The season ends with Nathan in his coffin with an iPod and wakes up and leaves the viewers wondering if he escapes

Nip/Tuck

Season 2: ended with plastic surgeon Christian Troy at the mercy of the Miami serial rapist, The Carver. The season ends with the Carver raising his knife, and slashing it across the neck of the terrified doctor.
Season 5: ended with Sean on the floor spitting blood after being stabbed on the back by his former agent, Colleen Rose.

NCIS

Season 2: one of the agents, Caitlin Todd, gets murdered by a sniper.
Season 3: the team leader, Gibbs, quits.
Season 4: we discover that Tony has been dating the daughter of an arms dealer who the director is obsessed with catching.
Season 5: the new director breaks up Gibbs's team.
Season 6: Ziva remains in Israel after the death of Michael Rivkin and is last seen being tortured for information on NCIS.
Season 7: Paloma Reynosa, head of a drug cartel who threatened to kill Gibb's father previously in the episode, is shown entering Jackson's store.
Season 8: Anthony DiNozzo, one of the main characters, is given access to top secret material, and the episode ends with him seeing who he must "handle".

The O.C.: Every episode could be interpreted as ending with a cliffhanger. The most dramatic reserved for the season-ending episode(s) in May. The most notable, the 3rd season ending with Marissa Cooper dying in Ryan Atwood's arms after a car-crash.
One Piece: Every episode ends with a black screen upon which the words "TO BE CONTINUED" are displayed in large letters which fill up the screen. Most episodes are cliffhangers, and those that are not still have the "TO BE CONTINUED" screen at the end, implying that even if this episode's story has been resolved, the larger quest for Gold Roger's treasure continues.
Pokémon: Even the episodes' conflicts are solved within the show, there are some exceptions. Some episodes (such as "Hello Pummelo" and "Enter The Dragonite") are two parters, whereas others (like the "Indigo Arc") are multiple part storylines that take more than a few to resolve, these usually take place during a major tournament that Ash has made his way towards. Also, all of the episodes end with the trite "To Be Continued ..." with the show's picture shrinking to the upper-left corner of the screen. One episode of the series ("The Battle Of The Badge") also dovetails into Pokémon: The First Movie as Mewtwo escapes from Giovanni, having defeated Gary's Pokémon earlier.
Power Rangers: Half of the episodes have a cliffhanger ending and the ending gets resolved in the next episode. With the exception of the first two seasons, the sixth season (although there was a minor cliffhanger) and the reboot seasons (except RPM), each series ended on a cliffhanger:

Season 3: The Rangers are reversed into children and become powerless without the Power Coins.
Mini-series: The Command Center is destroyed by Rita and Zedd, leaving Zordon and Alpha 5 presumed dead.
Season 4: Rita and Zedd destroys the Machine Empire and there is no explanation to whatever happened to the Zeo Zords.
Season 5: Zordon is kidnapped by Dark Specter, the Turbo Zords are destroyed, the Turbo Powers are gone forever, the Power Chamber is destroyed and the Rangers (except Justin) go to the shuttles to rescue Zordon from Divatox.
Season 6: Although not technically a cliffhanger, this season ended without any explanation as to what happened to the Psycho Rangers after they were turned into data cards. However, this was resolved in a team up special of next season.
Season 17: In the final shot of the final episode, Venjix is seen alive on Ranger Red's morpher. However, this was resolved in a team up special of next season.

Primeval: The endings of each season appears to have a cliffhanger.

Season 1: for season one, Nick Cutter discovered that Claudia Brown had been removed from history due to something that had changed in the past during his trip there.
Season 2: and in season two, Helen Cutter was seen with multiple versions of one man around a grave of a deceased main character. Also, the second to last episode of series 2 ended with the team finding thousands of creatures in an underground base, which was concluded in the finale. the first episode of series 2 ended when Jenny Lewis first entered the Arc, a woman who looked exactly the same as the missing Claudia Brown.
Season 3: Also, in series 3 Danny is trapped with the Hominids and Conner and Abby are in the Cretaceous and Sarah says she has an idea. whilst the same episode of series 3 ended with the team setting off to find Helen Cutter in the future.
Season 5: In Series 5, Matt Anderson sees the alternative version of himself and the alternative version says to him: "You have to go back.".

Prison Break: Most episodes spend the last minute or two setting up the main plot of the next episode, and produce a cliffhanger to be resolved. The season finales end with multiple cliffhangers that will be resolved over the course of the entire next season.
Prisoner Cell Block H: for the whole eight year run of the popular Australian 80's soap opera, the last episode of the year always ended with a cliffhanger. Except for the final episode in 1986.

1979: As Greg and Karen enjoyed a quiet night in, the phone rang and when Karen answered the phone she was shot by David O'Connel who was outside waiting, he was meaning to shoot Greg.
1980: As six of the inmates attempted to escape through a tunnel under the prison, the tunnel collapsed trapping them under ground.
1981: While Meg Jackson & Jim Fletcher were doing their nightly rounds, checking the prison, they were chased by a group of inmates that had got out of their cells and attempting to take them hostage and start a riot.
1982: A small diversion fire escalated and destroyed the prison, trapping Officer Joan Ferguson, Bea Smith, Paddy Lawson, Barbara Fields & 'Mouse' Trapp.
1983: Officer David Bridges revealed himself as the person responsible for the disappearnce of several prisoners, by killing them, holding Lizzie Birdsworth at knife point.
1984: As Myra Desmond played a recorded conversation between her and, then top dog, Reb Kean, to the other women, Yemil came to tell them Pixie Mason was at risk of being bashed.
1985: Eve Wilder's lawyer, David, couldnt keep up their lies and shot himself in front of her.

Quantum Leap: Each episode ended with a minute or so long intro to the next episode's storyline.
ReBoot

Season 1 ended with a two part episode, with the first ending with a cliffhanger. Starting with Season 2, the series contained a long running story arc, with many episodes (including the final episode) ending on a cliffhanger.

Season 2: Megabyte betrays Bob after a brief alliance, shooting him into the Web, leaving the system in the hands of young Enzo Matrix.
Season 3: Although Megabyte has been defeated, and the system has been restored to normal, there is still the threat of Supervirus Daemon, who has infected the entire Guardian collective apart from Bob and Matrix.
Season 4: After his supposed capture, it is revealed that the Megabyte that was captured was really an alias, and the real Megabyte takes over the Principle Office, telling the citizens that he has no plan, only revenge, then telling them to 'Prepare Yourselves.. For The Hunt!'

Red Dwarf

Season 2: After finding out that Lister is pregnant, Rimmer finds out he is the baby's uncle.
Season 6: The crew have a battle with their future selves who destroy them by blowing up Starbug.
Season 7: The crew arrive on the reconstructed Red Dwarf, only to find it is an alternate version.
Season 8: The Grim Reaper comes to take Rimmer and the series ends with Rimmer kicking the Reaper in the crotch and saying Only the good die young. and running off.

The cartoon version of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show: Often ends each episode in some sort of a cliffhanger, left to be resolved in the next episode.
Robin Hood (2006-2009 series)

Season 1: The second to last episode ended with the supposed death of Maid Marian, although it was revealed in the finale that she survived.
Season 2: the second to last episode concluded with the Merry Men riding off to the Holy land to help King Richard.
Season 3: the second to last episode finished with the return of the Sheriff (assumed dead earlier in the series). Also, series 3 featured several interlinking episodes, the main story of each being cleared up, but several minor elements carrying on to form bigger plot features in later episodes. (For example, the episode "The king is dead, long live the king" concludes its main story, but a final scene shows Isabella becoming Sheriff and announcing Guy of Gisbourne's execution, the first being a major twist in the overall series, and the second being the main focus of the following episode)

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Scrubs: Some of the seasons end on cliffhangers.

Season 1: The first one ended with Jordan revealing everyone's secrets to the others.
Season 2: The second one ended with Dr. Cox punching Dr. Kelso. J.D. ended it with saying We'll work on that one tomorrow.
Season 4: The fourth season ended with Elliot taking another job at another hospital.
Season 5: The fifth season ended with Kim revealing that she was pregnant.
Season 6: The sixth ended with J.D. and Elliot (both of whom were relationships with other people) lying in the On-call room, leaning in to kiss.

The Simpsons

Season 6: After a town meeting about what to do after Mr. Burns put the town in darkness and quickly fled, many citizens were seen holding guns. Marge leaves Maggie in the car, and hears a gunshot and walks over to the town hall to find Mr. Burns bleeding and being shot, lying on the sundial.
Season 22: Ned and Krabapel start dating, but after finding out her secret, that she slept with every citizen of Springfield who isn't in a relationship, Homer helps him realise he should break up with Edna, but when he is about to do so, he cannot do it and she tells him that if their relationship will work, he has to forget her secret. Homer and Marge then give fans a link to where they can decide what happens.

Slayers: As per most anime series with long-running story arcs, several episodes often end with the main characters in some type of peril. However, the fourth season (Revolution) ended on an actual cliffhanger in which Lina and her friends were still looking for a way to save Pokota's people. The very end of the episode after the credits featured a shot of Zuuma, one of the villains from the season, indicating that he was going to make his return. These two plot threads would be continued in the following season, Evolution-R.
Smallville: Each third of the season (consisting of about 6-9 episodes) usually ends with a cliffhanger, with the most intense cliffhangers reserved for the season-ending episode(s).
Sonic the Hedgehog

Season 2: The second season finale ("Doomsday") was not planned to be the series finale, but the show was cancelled before the third season could be fully written. After the destruction of the Doomsday Project and Robotnik's mysterious diappearance, Snively emerged from his escape elevator in the wreckage, dressed in more sinister clothes, to pick up where his uncle left off with the help of a strange character.

Sonic X

Season 1: Season 1 ended with a cliffhanger. It ended with a piece of Sonic's world and Angel Island appeared on Chris' world.
Season 3: The following 3rd season ended with numerous cliffhangers, including whether or not Shadow the Hedgehog was alive (this was only in the 4Kids dub of the show. Due to a mess up with the story the English version had to have the shot of Shadow after the final fight taken out leading to confusen among American and British fans as to shadow's state at the end of the show), or the question of what the Seed that Cosmo gave Miles Tails Prower was. Overall it's still not known if Sonic X will have a fourth season or if there's ever going be another Sonic TV series.

South Park

Season 1: When the show became immensely popular, season one ended with a search for Eric Cartman's father. The next episode was supposed to air four weeks later, which happened to be April Fools' Day 1998. The creators decided to pull "The Ultimate South Park Joke" by premiering season 2 with a completely unrelated episode about Terrance and Phillip. Fans were angered by this and the creators made the conclusion episode.
Season 4: Also, season 4 had a cliffhanger arc and season 10 had two separate arcs.
Season 6: During Season 6, the episode Professor Chaos had a spoof cliffhanger ending, by asking three questions that theoretically would be answered in the following episode (One of which had nothing to do with the events of the preceding episode). Instead of all three questions being answered in the following episode, they were answered verbally immediately before the closing credits. The following episode, Simpsons Already Did It, simply elaborated on the answers to the three aforementioned questions. Also, there was another cliffhanger in both season's 11 and 12, which leads the audience to suspect that the creators will have at least one cliffhanger in each season to come.

Spooks

Season 1: After being told about the C4 in the laptop, Tom finds out he is locked out of the house and Ellie and Maisie are trapped inside.
Season 2: Tom tells Harry that Joyce died 5 years ago in a car crash and while Harry calls for back-up, Tom shoots Harry in the shoulder and swims into the North Sea.
Season 4: Adam defuses the bomb in the bunker and goes back to Thames House where Angela shoots him and prepares to kill Harry.
Season 6: After arresting Bob Hogan, the British, Americans and Venezuelans arrive at the school and save Adam and Jo and just as they arrive Adam kills Jo.
Season 7: Lucas and Ros escape from the bomb which kills Connie. Lucas calls Harry but gets no answer.
Season 8: After finding the bomb in the Home Secretary's office, Ros tells the other to go and the building blows up with Ros and the Home Secretary inside.
Season 9: After finding out Lucas is a traitor, Harry tells Lucas to shoot him and turns around to find Lucas nowhere.

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Star Trek series: The only cliffhanger pair in the original series was "The Menagerie", which incorporated footage of the aborted pilot, "The Cage". However, since Star Trek: The Next Generation, most of the seasons of the various series have ended with a cliffhanger, and later seasons have included cliffhangers in the middle of a season. In the episode "The Best of Both Worlds" when Captain Picard was held prisoner on the Borg cube, Commander Riker needed to take this opportunity to try and destroy the Borg vessel. Using a makeshift weapon developed using the deflector dish, he commanded Worf to "Fire". The next screen was "To Be Continued". This left the fans on the edge of their seats until the next season. A literal cliffhanger occurred just before a commercial break in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", when Captain Kirk tries to escape from an underground colony run by a mad scientist. He falls into a bottomless pit where two redshirts have already died but manages to hold onto the rim with his fingers as the murderous, hulking android Ruk glares over him.
Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis: The first four seasons and the ninth season of SG-1 ended with cliffhangers. The last episodes of the fifth through eighth seasons were all written as possible series finales. In contrast, all three seasons of Atlantis ended with cliffhangers, and the trend seems likely to continue. Both SG-1 and Atlantis also have mid-season cliffhangers, as the seasons air in blocks (one from July to September; one from January to March).
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!: Seasons 2, 3, and 4.

Season 4: The series ended with the title characters gathering all of their allies to fight the resurrected Skeleton King who was about to lead his army to attack Shuggazoom City.

Supernatural: Every season finale featured a cliffhanger ending.

Season 1: After escaping a near-death encounter with the Yellow-Eyed Demon, Sam, Dean, and their father John are crashed into by a truck being driven by another demon, and the viewer is left unclear on whether any of them have survived.
Season 2: Although Sam and Dean succeed in killing the Yellow-Eyed Demon they are unable to stop him from briefly opening the gates to Hell, allowing numerous demons to be set free on Earth. Dean also sold his soul to bring back Sam earlier after he had been killed, and he only has one year left before it will be claimed.
Season 3: Despite their best efforts, Dean and Sam fail in killing Lilith, the demon holding the contract on Dean's soul. Dean is killed by the hell hounds, and the season ends showing him being tortured in Hell.
Season 4: Sam finally manages to kill Lilith. However in doing so her death manages to break the final seal and allow Lucifer to be set free. The screen fades to white as Sam and Dean prepare for Lucifer to escape from his prison.
Season 5: Sam lets Lucifer possess him and then throws his body into a portal to Hell. Distraught by the apparent death of his brother Dean quits being a hunter, however at the very end Sam mysteriously reappears watching him from afar.
Season 6: Castiel, angel and former ally of the Winchesters, absorbs countless souls into himself and becomes a god, then proceeds to give Sam, Dean, and Bobby an ultimatum: bow down to him or die.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series): Seasons 1, 2, and 4 have all ended with different cliffhangers.

Season 1: Season 1 ended with the turtles being beamed to an unknown location, leaving the Utroms dumbstruck.
Season 2: Season 2 ended with the turtles at home, celebrating their victory, while the bloodthirsty Triceratons approaching Earth, planning a full-scale invasion.
Season 4: Season 4 ended with the turtles and their new allies being held captive on a ship that is headed for Japan.

Totally Spies!: Seasons 1 and 3 have all ended with different cliffhangers.

Season 1: Season 1 ended with Alex being kidnapped by Marco Lumiere.
Season 3: Season 3 ended with Terence being escaped from WOOHP prison.

The Transformers: In the 3-part series finale of what was said to be the fourth season, Galvatron plots to rule the galaxy, but Lord Zarak plots to do the same.
Transformers Animated: Seasons 1 and 2 have all ended with different cliffhangers. * Season 1: Season 1 ended with Professor Isaac Sumdac kidnapped by the newly-rebuilt Megatron.

Season 2: Season 2 ended with Sari discovering she has a robotic elbow.

Tru Calling: Season 1 (and the unfinished season 2) both ended on a cliff hanger with many questions left unanswered.
True Blood: Nearly every episode ends in a cliffhanger.

Season 1: Sookie and Tara watch as a black leg, heavily hinted to be Lafayette's, falls out of Andy's police car. The season ends as Sookie and Tara scream in terror. Also, a mysterious woman named Maryann moves to Bon Temps and takes Tara under her wing, while posing an unknown threat to Sam.
Season 2: After Bill proposes to Sookie and she accepts, Bill is kidnapped by an unknown character. The season ends with Sookie entering the room and calling Bill's name.
Season 3: Holly performs a strange ritual on Arlene's unborn baby, and it is hinted that there are dark intentions. Jesus reveals to Lafayette that he is a brujo. Sam shoots Tommy. After Sookie finds out the truth about Bill's moving to Bon Temps, she breaks up with him in a rage. In an attempt to keep Sookie safe, Bill challenges the Queen of Louisiana to a fight, the result of which is left unknown. Confused and hurt, Sookie goes to her grandmother's grave, where Claudine meets her and transports her to an unknown location.
Season 4: Rene's ghost warns Arlene that Terry isn't as good as he seems. Lafayette kills Jesus while possessed by Marnie, and is racked with guilt over it. After being involved in Marcus' death, Sam is confronted by a wolf. After Jessica informs Jason that she doesn't want to be his girlfriend, Steve Newlin comes to his house, now a vampire. Alcide is called to a parking garage that his family owns, only to discover that someone has helped Russell escape his cement prison. Debbie comes to Sookie's house to shoot her, but Tara jumps in the way and is killed. Sookie kills Debbie and cries over Tara's body.

The West Wing

Season 1: Season 1 ends with the President and his staff being shot at.
Season 2: Season 2 ends with the President, after just revealing his failure to disclose he has MS, being asked the question, "Will you seek a second term in office?" However, creator Aaron Sorkin and others dispute this on the Second Season DVD Set, having set up earlier in the episode a 'tell' that President Bartlet, upon deciding to go ahead with something, puts his hands in his pockets, looks away, and smiles. The end of the episode, while not giving an answer, shows his body language indicating his answer.
Season 3: Season 3 ends with the President having just ordered the assassination of Abdul Shareeff and the impending kickoff of his reelection campaign.
Season 4: Season 4 ends when the President's daughter has been kidnapped, and temporarily with no Vice-President, he evokes the 25th Amendment, naming the Speaker of the House, who is from the opposing party, Acting President.
Season 5: Season 5 ends with an attack on the Presidential envoys sent to promote peace in the Middle East. The blast kills the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and seriously wounds Donna Moss.
Season 6: Season 6 ends with the nominations of Matt Santos and Leo McGarry as the Democratic ticket and Arnold Vinick as their challenger.
Season 7: Season 7 and the series ends with the start of the Santos administration.

The X-Files: Most episodes end in mysterious conclusions. And each season finale ends mysteriously as well.
Twin Peaks

Season 1: Season 1 ends with Dale Cooper being shot in the chest by an unknown assailant.

Ugly Betty

Season 2: In the season 2 finale, it is unrevealed if Betty chose to go to Rome with Gio or Tucson with Henry until the season 3 premiere.
Season 3: In the end of Filing for the Enemy, it is revealed that Christina was pushed down a flight of stairs but Betty finds out in Crimes of Fashion. In the season 3 finale Wilhelmina sees someone in her apartment saying, "What are YOU doing here?!?" but it is not revealed who it was in her apartment.

Weeds: Each season so far has ended on a cliffhanger. Most episodes, especially in the latter parts of seasons, also end in cliffhangers.

Season 1: Nancy forms a grow house operation. Andy must avoid being inducted into the army and deployment to Iraq. Silas reveals that he knows Nancy is a dealer. She wonders if she should tell Shane. Nancy realizes her new love interest is a DEA agent.
Season 2: Nancy has multiple guns pointed at her by thugs looking to steal a large quantity of marijuana from her. However, the marijuana has been stolen by her son, Silas, who is about to be arrested by a police officer being escorted by Celia. Meanwhile, Shane has run away with Cat; Andy following close behind her to rescue him.
Season 3: Nancy burns down her house and drives away on her segway as her hometown of Agrestic burns to the ground, her past with it. Celia is arrested. In their last episode, Conrad and Heylia plan to open a marijuana club.
Season 4: After Esteban discovers that Nancy has become a DEA informant, he orders her to his office for execution. Nancy shows an ultrasound image of her baby to him, thereby announcing her pregnancy. Celia is kidnapped by her daughter, who plans to blackmail Dean for a ransom. Shane begins to deal drugs. Silas makes plans to grow marijuana. Andy deals with his romantic interest for Nancy.
Season 5: After Pilar threatens to kill Silas and Shane, Shane kills her with a croquet mallet. Guillermo, who despises Nancy for ratting him out, is free in Mexico. In her last episode, Celia starts a "team" for drug-dealing. Andy leaves Audra, his fiancé, with a crazed protester with a crossbow.
Season 6: Shane, Silas, and Andy board a plane to Europe, leaving Nancy behind. Esteban and Guillermo take Nancy and Stevie away, planning to kill Nancy for taking Stevie away from Esteban. However, they are stopped by the police, and Nancy takes the blame for Pilar's murder in order to keep her family safe.
Season 7: Shane enrolls in the NYPD academy. Nancy's family, Jill and her daughters, and Doug live a house in suburban Connecticut. A sniper in the bushes takes aim at Nancy's head and fires a shot.

Xena: Warrior Princess: Several episodes end with a cliffhanger
Xiaolin Showdown: While most Saturday morning shows shy away from season ending cliffhangers, this show (and the TMNT revival) has embraced them. Seasons 1 and 2 end with one of the Xiaolin monks having been temporarily turned to evil. The final episode was when Raimundo was made the new leader instead of Omi, who eventually accepted. All the villains joined together to fight the heroes, but the outcome was never resolved as the heroes freeze-framed as they advanced toward the camera, about to fight, and the show faded out.
Zoey 101: In the Zoey 101 movie, "Goodbye Zoey", Michael tries to turn off Quinn's webcam, but starts a connection with Zoey at the same time Michael & Chase tried to make Chase admit he misses Zoey. But along with him admitting it, he admits he loves Zoey and says why and when he first met her. Then the screen goes to Zoey and goes black.

Other unresolved cliffhangers

Some TV shows were cancelled in between seasons, and viewers were left wondering what happened. Some other media also have shown unresolved cliffhangers.

Television series

24: Season 8 never mentioned what happened to Aaron Pierce and Tony Almeida after the events of Season 7. It's not known if they will appear in the feature film.
Aaron Stone: In the final episode, main antagonist Elias Powers has seemingly been captured, however, it is actually a shape-shifting mutant that has been captured, and the final shot sees the real Elias going into the Uriah Chamber, which contained pure evil. The series was not renewed for a third season due to the network Disney XD deciding to have all of their live-action programs be comedies, making this announcement prior to the end of the first season.
Ace of Wands: At the end of the third season in 1972, the three regular characters are apparently caught in an explosion. A fourth season was never commissioned. This was possibly the earliest example of a season finale cliffhanger .
The Agency: Stiles' attempt to rescue Terri puts both of them in jeopardy when he is discovered. Her captors are forced to flee with Joshua, but not before detonating the bomb they'd attached to Terri's neck. This episode ends the season as well as the series with a cliffhanger that was never resolved.
Alien Nation (TV series): The Francisco family is infected with a biowarfare infection and is taken to the hospital. The unaired second-season continuation was published as a novel, and several years later, as a television film.
All My Children: In the final act of the network finale, the citizens of Pine Valley are gathered for the engagement party of Adam Chandler and Brooke English. From the shadows lurks his son, JR Chandler, wielding a handgun. A shot is fired and fade to black, with no resolution as to who was caught in the crossfire.
The Amanda Show: In the last episode in the sketch, "Moody's Point", Moody learns that she's not the real Moody, she was switched at birth with another baby. At the end, she is given back to her real parents, but the real Moody is never revealed because The Amanda Show got cancelled.
Aquila: The owners of Aquilla are able to activate the onboard computer to discover that it was in fact a liferaft of a much larger battlecruiser orbiting the sun, declaring that "We could have some serious fun with a battle cruiser!"
Avatar: The Last Airbender: In the final moments of the series, Zuko, now the new Fire Lord, visits his father's prison cell and demands him to reveal the whereabouts of his mother. But Ozai's answer is never revealed. Also, after going insane, Azula loses a final fight with both her brother and Katara. Her fate was not shown in the series but Nick.com revealed that Azula was placed in a mental health facility to be monitored around the clock.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The series never explained why did the Justice League of America disbanded. Also the episode "Time Out For Vengeance" ended with Batman and the Justice League International saying "they haven't heard the last of Equinox". It was never resolved in the final episodes, but producers James Tucker and Michael Jelenic and writer J.M. DeMatteis have announced that they've all expressed interests in doing a Justice League International animated series spin-off.
Benson: The famous "Who Won?" cliffhanger featuring a gubernatorial race between the title character and his former employer was never resolved.
Berserk: The anime series ends with Griffith betraying his allies and being reborn as the god Femto. With the rest of the Band of Hawk dead, Femto proceeds to rape Casca while forcing Guts to watch. Although the viewer knows that Guts escapes somehow as the epilogue to the final episode as well as the entirety of the first episode (which actually took place after the events of the rest of the anime) feature him alive, it is unknown how he managed to do so.
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot: This animated series ended with the scientist who built the Legion Ex Machina robots telling the titular characters that he had built seven robots, rather than just the six they had been aware of and defeated over the course of the series.
The Big O: In the last episode, Angel becomes the Fourth Big, Big Venus, and begins removing Paradigm City from reality. Roger and Big O attempt to negotiate with her on the survival of humanity. Afterwards, Big Venus and Big O walk towards each other and the screen fades to white. In the last few minutes, the opening of the first episode is shown, with Dorothy and Angel watching Roger drive off unlike in the original footage. This does not tie up any plot threads, and simply confuses people further, as not only was Roger driving off to rescue Dorothy in the first place, but Angel should not appear until Episode 3. The cryptic ending is the rushed result of the series being cancelled unexpectedly, instead of being extended to a third season.
Blade: The Series: Ends in a cliffhanger that is supposed to set up a second season for the show, with Marcus Van Sciver grabbing Krista Starr by the throat asking her how long she worked for Blade. Despite a large success, actress Jill Wagner stated on her MySpace blog that Spike TV would not renew the series.
Blake's 7: At the end of the fourth and final season the lead characters were surrounded and shot by a Federation security squad. The intention was for those actors who chose to continue on into the fifth season to have merely been stunned by the shots instead of being killed. In the event, there was no fifth season and the frustration inflicted on the audience led to much fan fiction and a novel regarding what happened next.
Capitol: Sloane Denning is facing execution by firing squad, and as soon as the executioner says "fire," the episode ends with no resolution of what happened. Also, preceding the execution, Myrna Clegg is shown not taking her husband asking for a divorce so well, and trying to get their children to choose sides. The executive producers deliberately chose not to tie up these threads, in response to CBS' sudden cancellation of the show.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

The final episode of the 60's Supermarionation series ended with no clear conclusion to the war between Spectrum and The Mysterons

Caroline in the City: This sitcom ended with the sudden appearance of Richard Karinsky (Malcolm Gets) at Caroline's wedding.
Cliffhangers: Perhaps the definitive cliffhanger program. An hour-long show composed of three segments per week. Each weekly segment ended in a cliffhanger. The series was cancelled with two of the three storylines incomplete. The episode tying up those incomplete stories were actually shown overseas, and one of the unfinished stories was re-edited into a telefilm (as was the one that was completed).
Clone High: The series ended with most of the cast being frozen in a meat locker by Principal Scudworth.
The Colbys: The series ended with Fallon (Emma Samms) abducted by aliens in the series finale. This cliffhanger was resolved however in its parent show Dynasty.
Crusade: As it was cancelled before the main thrust of the plot could even begin to unfold, much less come to fruition.
Cybill: Dr Dick steals Maryann's money. Cybill and Maryann take revenge by blowing up his ostensibly deserted boat, but are then arrested for his murder.
Danger Mouse: The series finale "The Intergalactic 147" ended with Danger Mouse and Penfold alive and well in their pillar box on a sidewalk fragment surrounded by a giant empty wasteland where London had been. They had helped the earth avoid being bumped into a black hole in an alien's intergalactic snooker game, but not before the whole city of London around them disappeared, its exact whereabouts unknown. While DM and their boss, Colonel K, who's on the videophone, fret over what to do about the missing city, Penfold asks if they have a "spare", to which both DM and the Colonel reply, "Penfold, shush!". With London's fate still unresolved, the show faded out for the final time.
Darkwing Duck: The episode "Steerminator" ends with a cliffhanger, which was intended to be resolved two seasons later, but the show was canceled before production of next season.
Dead Like Me: Ended with a number of "loose ends" especially as concerned the status of the relationship between Georgia Lass, the main character, and her mother and younger sister.
Desperate Housewives: Felicia Tilman plans her final act of revenge on Paul Young after sneaking into his home to "borrow flour" when in reality she takes his house keys. Then we're shown Felicia calling police and saying that her neighbour Paul Young threatens her while she's pumping her blood. She's answered that nothing can be done with threatens and Felicia says that in that case she'll do everything herself. The following evening, Paul walks into his kitchen to slip and discover blood on the floor and on the kitchen walls. Paul then follows a trail to the garage where the door is ajar. The police quickly come upon the scene and place Paul in handcuffs then discover two of Felicia's fingers in the trunk of his car. While Paul is escorted to prison, Felicia escapes to the mountains and retreats to a log cabin where she takes the alias of "Mrs. Huber" and covers a bandage over her two missing fingers. This cliffhanger is finally resolved 5 years later (9 years in the show), in the season seventh premiere.
Duckman: In the final episode, Duckman's supposedly deceased wife, Beatrice, unexpectedly appears during his second marriage. It is soon revealed that Cornfed knew Beatrice was still alive the entire time. Notably, none of the previous episodes of the series had ended on a cliffhanger.
Earth 2: This one-season series ended with Devon Adair (Debrah Farentino) falling ill with a mysterious illness and being placed in hibernation. Her voiceover implies that the planet they are trying to colonize is "rejecting" them, and that the same fate may befall the other characters. The series was not renewed for a second season, leaving the cliffhanger unresolved.
Emerald Point N.A.S.: Ends on a cliffhanger, which was intended to be resolved, but was canceled before production of next season. Principal character Maggie Farrell (played by Maud Adams) is kidnapped by former lover David Marquette (Michael Brandon) on the eve of her wedding to Thomas Mallory (Dennis Weaver), who finds her wedding gown stuck to the wall with a knife in the final scene.
Eve: At Diva Style, Janie, Rita, and several friends are arrested by the FBI for an illegal botox party. Shelly derided her pregnant mother for remarrying her father after she found out her father is the baby's father; Shelly felt her father would abandon the baby like he abandoned Shelly and her sister. Finally, the husband of Nick's girlfriend approaches the closet where he and J.T. were hiding. J.T. grabbed a shoe, ready to do battle. At that point "To Be Continued" appeared on-screen, ending the series with no hope of immediate resolution.
The Event: This show's cliffhanger sees the aliens bringing their whole planet over.
Exosquad: Ends with a cliffhanger when an alien race of enormous power unexpectedly attacks the Solar System shortly after the end of the war between Neosapiens and humans.
Farscape: The show was abruptly cancelled after it had completed production of its fourth season, with a fifth season contracted, effectively ending the series on a cliffhanger. A mini-series in 2004, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars wrapped up some of the show's hanging plot threads.
Fastlane: This highly stylized FOX television series, starring Tiffani Thiessen, Peter Facinelli, and Bill Bellamy ended its 22-episode, 1 season run with undercover officers Van (Facinelli) and Deaq (Bellamy) successfully preventing a jewel heist spearheaded by the first employee Lt. Billie Chambers (Thiessen) recruited to work for The Candy Store, back when she hired criminals to pose as cops, instead of cops posing as criminals. Though the perp, Nick Cassavetes, was killed in the climax of the encounter, the satisfied undercover duo are none the wiser that Lt. Billie Chambers has been kidnapped by Cassavetes' female associate (Gina Tognoni), who injects the formerly-addicted Billie with heroin. Also, Van and Deaq have seemingly lost their jobs after Lt. Roland Hill (Jay Mohr) has taken over The Candy Store.
First Monday: As law clerk Ellie Pearson and Justice Deborah Szwark's CIA attorney daughter walk to a restaurant, Szwark's daughter is struck by a car. Ellie cradles her and screams for help, as the season (and the series) ends with a cliffhanger ending.
Flamingo Road: The primetime soap ended in May 1982 with the murder of villain Michael Tyrone. At the very end of the series finale, Michael rises from the dead in a burning barn.
FlashForward: The unplanned series finale ends with the FBI building exploding, possibly with Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) still inside. This was followed by a series of flash-forwards to various points in the future (in contrast to the original FlashForward showing just one particular moment in time), set to Band of Horses' The Funeral.
Frisky Dingo: The second season revealed that the main character Killface was assigned by his Mother of an alien species to destroy Earth. The Spin-off show The Xtacles hinted at the aftermath but it was never developed as the series was canceled.
Generations: In the final scene of the final episode, Adam Marshall (Kristoff St. John) discovers Doreen Jackson (Jonelle Allen) frantically trying to revive Henry Marshall (James Reynolds), who has just had a heart attack just after saying that he'd rather go see his wife sing at the opening of a nightclub than committing adultery with Doreen. The words, "To Be Continued" then appeared on the screen, and then fades to black. (Ironically, this episode was never shown in some markets in the US due to Gulf War coverage, so for those viewers, the series ended with the previous episode's cliffhanger ending instead.)
Grown Ups: J. inadvertently proposes to his on-again-off-again girlfriend Melissa.
Hellcats: Vanessa gets fired from her job as Hellcats coach for unknowingly causing the team to get strep throat. Savannah steps down as Hellcats captain to take care of her mother and sister and her newborn nephew and gives the captain position to Alice. Marti discovers that her half-sister Dierdre has been in contact with their father after he called her phone and she storms out of Cheertown, presumingly to find their father.
Heroes: Claire jumps off the Ferris wheel at the carnival and everyone watches as she automatically heals from the fall and she says her name and that she lost count of her jumps from high places and the show ends with the words "To be continued".
Hey Arnold!: In the series finale episode The Journal Arnold finds a journal that was written by his missing father. The episode ends with Arnold finding a map that could lead to his parents possible location. The episode was going to lead to another Hey Arnold! movie called The Jungle Movie, but because of the low gross of the first film and legal issues with the show's creator, the film was shelved. Hence, the series was left in a cliffhanger.
Inspector Gadget: The show ended without revealing the face of the main antagonist Dr. Claw's face, and he was still at large.
Invasion: The first and only season ended with two major cliffhangers: the fate of Larkin and her baby and the outcome of the hybrid pregnancies.
The IT Crowd: Series 1: After the party, it is revealed that Jen slept with Moss, Roy slept with Doctor Mendall and that Richmond slept with Denholm and they both scream in horror as the screen fades to black and "to be continued" appears on the screen. however, this cliffhanger was never resolved.
JAG: The final episode involved Harm and Mac getting married. As they were being posted away from each other, one had to give up his/her career for the marriage to work. To decide, they flipped a commemorative coin. The result was not shown.
The Jeff Foxworthy Show: The series finale ended with Jeff and his family and friends surviving a tornado. But when Jeff and wife Karen come up out of the cellar they find that their house has been completely leveled by the storm. The series' final fadeout shows a panout of the two looking around at the wreckage while Jeff makes with a "You might be a redneck" statement.
John Doe: In the unplanned series finale, the Stocking Cap man seemingly in charge of the evil Phoenix Organization is revealed in the last seconds as Digger, John Doe's employer and one of his closest friends. According to the series creators, "Digger" would have been revealed in the next season not to be the real Digger, but "a Phoenix member with some fancy facial reconstruction" [1].
JPod: In the series finale, "Colony Collapse Disorder", Kaitlin is put into a coma by a hug machine installed in the pod. Cowboy calls 911 (Which he has on speed-dial) and the series ends with Ethan announcing "I think she's gone into a coma." (Possibly a reference to the Douglas Coupland novel "Girlfriend in a Coma)
Kings: In the series finale, King Silas gets a message from God telling him that David will take his place. Outraged, Silas tries to kill David, but David escapes him. The reverend tells David that God will keep David in a safe place in Gath. The series ends with David running into the woods.^[1]
Las Vegas: The 2007-2008 Writer's Strike cancelled production of the remaining three episodes of the series, forcing the series to end on a cliffhanger involving Danny and Delinda's pregnancy/baby, and Cooper's ownership fight for the Montecito.
Last Man Standing: Cam was about to confront Adam having just remembered a drunken conversation about his affair with Zoe.
Living with Fran: Merryl and Danny announce their engagement and Merryl asks Fran to be her Matron of Honor and Danny asks Riley to be his Best Man. Fran realizes that she will run into Riley at the engagement party causes Fran to bring Ted as her date in order to tell Riley that she has moved on from him and is giving Ted another chance. Fran finds Ted hitting on Riley's date. When Riley learns that Fran was just trying to protect him he proposes to Fran.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: This ended with then married Lois and Clark finding a baby left in their living room, with a note "Lois and Clark - This baby's for you." The baby was intended to turn out to be their baby from the future.
Love of Life: On its final episode on February 1, 1980, heroine Betsy Crawford, after testifying in a trial, collapsed as she was leaving the stand. No one knew what happened to her as the show was cancelled, and not picked up by another network. (It is not known whether the whole episode exists; at the very least, the credits sequence that followed does, as does a CBS news report on the cancellation.)
Malcolm & Eddie: After the 50/50 Club is wrecked in an accident, Nicolette offers Malcolm and Eddie money to rebuild it on the condition that she becomes a full partner.
Martian Successor Nadesico: Main character Akito confesses his love for Yurika and the crew of the Nadesico escapes the battlefield on Mars, but the subsequent fate of the crew, and the result of the war, is left unresolved - the ending narration even refers to the series' "inevitable second season". No second season was ever produced, however, although several video games and a movie were made. Director Tatsuo Sato later stated mysteriously that any sequel to Nadesico was "impossible".
Models, Inc.: In the finale that originally aired on FOX, the series ended with a assassin (Mitch Pileggi) hired by Grayson (Emma Samms) bringing his gun to her ex Adam's (James Wilder) wedding to Monique (Stephanie Romanov) wedding to shoot the latter. While Grayson was frantically trying to get her son Daniel away from the couple, the gun was shown pointing at the ensuing chaos and then the gun was shot. It ended in slow motion panning to the assassin's face with, "To Be Continued ..." The show was cancelled soon after, but there was an alternate ending which resolved the cliffhanger that later aired on international distribution and in repeats on E! cable network. The shot killed Grayson and showed Hillary Michaels (Linda Gray) announcing to the models that she was closing Models, Inc. The show ended with Gray turning off the lights to each model's photo on the wall in the lobby and the office going dark and zooming up to the Models, Inc. logo in the hallway. However, the one cliffhanger that wasn't resolved on either endings was the ending of the character of Carrie (Carrie-Anne Moss): Before the wedding sequence, Grayson had her kidnapped and in a scene saying "Somewhere in Central America" she woke up tied and was in "Hooker Hell."
Moesha: The show was cancelled on a cliffhanger, with Moesha's younger brother Miles having been kidnapped and a positive pregnancy test suggesting that one of the girls in Moesha's dorm was pregnant. The cliffhanger was originally planned to be solved on the Moesha spinoff The Parkers, but the writers of the show ultimately declined, feeling that the spinoff had a cliffhanger of its own to solve with the season premiere.
Mortal Kombat: Conquest: Due to the cost of making the show, it ended with only one season being made, despite its popularity. The series ended with all the major cast dead and Shao Kahn being victorious in pulling off his plan to get rid of his foes. Depending on source, the next season was supposed to start with either the Elder Gods resetting everything because Shao Kahn broke the rules, and/or the last two episodes being Kahn's dream.
My Name Is Earl: Earl finds out he is Dodge's father, but Darnell finds out he's not Earl Jr.'s father, and the series ends without viewers knowing who Earl Jr.'s father is.
My Own Worst Enemy: The series wouldn't have ended the way it did if it was ordered a full season, but ended on its ninth episode with no resolution, with Henry/Edward (Christian Slater) discovering that someone who has offered to fix him has been killed.^[2]
My So-Called Life: After discovering that Brian wrote the eloquent apology letter that was supposedly penned by Jordan Catalono, Angela ends up looking back and forth between the two deciding what she should do. She ends up getting into Jordan's car, but staring at Brian the whole time as she departs. The creator of the show, Winnie Holzman, is proud of the end of series. She said, "... there was a rightness in how short the season was. This was a show about adolescence and sort of ended in its own adolescence. There was an aura about how short the series was like all things that die young. The show ended at a point that it was still all potential."
No Ordinary Family: George and a bunch of prisoners are involved in a plane crash and they all get superpowers, but it's unknown what powers George got. Special Agent Hawkins of the NSA comes to the Powell home and tells the family that they're no ordinary family, and that they need their help in rounding up the prisoners.
Odyssey 5: Was cancelled after one season. The show ended on a cliffhanger which was never resolved. Unresolved plots included the main plot about saving the earth, but also the subplots about the Karder, the Sentients and the kidnapping of Angela Perry.
Over There: Was canceled immediately after its one and only season concluded, leaving a number of "loose ends" including the future of Bo Ryder, one of the principal characters, who hoped to recover from the loss of his right leg and return to active duty with his unit in Iraq.
Peak Practice: Was axed in 2002, with the final episode ending with two of the series' main characters literally falling off a cliff. Despite receiving hundreds of complaints from loyal viewers, ITV were steadfast in their decision not to make any further episodes of the series.
Peyton Place: When this evening soap opera was cancelled in 1969, the final episode made no attempt to tie-up the various story threads in the expectation another network would pick-up the show.
Popular: This show's second season finale ends with a cliffhanger that was never resolved due to an unexpected cancellation by the network after the episode was already shot. In the cliffhanger, Nicole (Tammy Lynn Michaels) runs over former friend Brooke (Leslie Bibb) with her car and it is unclear if the latter survives the hit or not. Also, it was revealed a drag queen (RuPaul) was Mary Cherry's (Leslie Grossman) father, and immediately preceding the accident, Brooke and Sam (Carly Pope) were shown arguing over the aftermath of Harrison's (Christopher Gorham) choice between the two, a decision that was never revealed, though series creator Ryan Murphy said after the cancellation that Harrison had picked Brooke, in spite of her reaction suggesting otherwise, and that Brooke, having broken every bone in her face, would have returned from her coma as a brunette (Bibb is a brunette) [2].
Port Charles: The soap opera concluded its run with heroine Allison not knowing who the father of her baby was.
Power Rangers RPM: After Disney's announcement to drop the show in 2009, the 17th series of the well known franchise ended with a cliffhanger implying that Venjix is still alive in Ranger Red's Morpher and the franchise was revived by Nickelodeon in 2011 and one of the episodes of the 18th series will resolve the cliffhanger.^[3]
The Prisoner: The Prisoner had two parts, one featuring Lieutanant Strainer's escape, and one featuring him and The Technician trying to find a comrade being held captive by Mercenaries. The first part ends with Strainer getting shot as well as The Technician. The screen cuts to black as The Technician puts the wounded Strainer in the escape van, with an epilogue explaining how the two escaped from the base, and stating the van was discovered crashed into a tree, but no bodies were found, and there was blood all over the vehicle. In the second part, the two are revealed to be alive, and they battle with the Mercenaries on a deserted street. The episode ends with Strainer climbing out of a rock pit and The Technician being shot dead by the lead Mercenary. Cue end credits.
Pushing Daisies: Another victim of early cancellation, the series finale, as originally filmed, ended with main character Chuck, revealing herself to be still alive to her aunt and mother, who thought that she was killed aboard a ship. However, it was re-edited in post to provide some closure, with the addition of shots "donated" (provided at a much lower price than normal) by the various effects houses that the show had worked with, and narration by series narrator Jim Dale [3]. Nevertheless, the finale still left many loose ends, for example, Ned never sees his father again.
ReBoot: There are two different cliffhanger endings. In the UK, the show ended with the heroes in the web gone to rescue Bob, and the episode ended with a zoom in on Matrix's eye. The reason for this cliffhanger is CITV did not air the rest of the season, as they deemed the content unsuitable. In the US and Canada (and/or anywhere other than the UK that aired ReBoot) got a different cliffhanger ending, at the end of Series 4 (The halfway point of Series 3 was where CITV stopped it), it is revealed that the clone of Bob is an upgraded version of the virus Megabyte, who is inside Mainframe's core office, and in a position to destroy it.
Red Dwarf: In the end of series 8 Rimmer is trapped on Red Dwarf as it is disintegrating around him and everyone else has abandoned ship. Then the Grim Reaper comes to take him away and he kicks the Grim Reaper in the testicles and runs off. Red Dwarf returned in Back to Earth which took place 10 years after the end of series 8 with no mention of how the cliffhanger was resolved.
Return to Eden: Ended on a dramatic cliffhanger in Australia. For subsequent international sales, a specially shot new ending hurriedly tied-up the unresolved story threads.
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles: Ends in a cliff-hanger on Episode 37 showing the Arachnid race doing a full-scale assault on Earth. There were originally plans to create three more episodes to create the resolution (with the voice-overs already recorded), but it was not possible due to running out of resources. In an audio commentary by producer Jeff Kline on the Homefront Campaign DVD, he outlines what would happen in those three episodes.
Silver Surfer: After 13 episodes the story was cut as Silver Surfer starts his battle with Thanos for the existence of the universe leaving the viewers with a white screen and a yellow "The End?" sign.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World: The season 3 cliffhanger was never resolved, for the series was cancelled in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through..
Sliders: In the last episode (The Seer), lone remaining original Slider Rembrandt Brown went to Earth Prime to defeat the Kromaggs, while the other sliders remained on the previous parallel earth, not knowing if Rembrandt would live or die.
Soap: The show ended on several cliffhangers, not least of which was the fate of Jessica Tate, who was facing execution by firing squad. Jessica's fate was more or less resolved in a subsequent 1983 episode of Benson, wherein Jessica's spirit visits her former butler to reassure him on his life's choices, and realizing that she is not dead but in a coma. Burt Campbell, a police officer, is about to walk into a trap, and Chester is about to shoot his son Danny.
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): The final scene of the season finale "The Doomsday Project" set up the plot point of Snively teaming up with a new villain for the next season. It was revealed in 1997 that Ixis Naugus was the mystery villain being set up. A third season was planned and a plot put out but the head of ABC was replaced, and the show was cancelled.
The Sopranos: Many episodes find their ending in a cliffhanger when some character or obscure scene ostensibly leaves the audience unsatisfied, often with subtle allegations. Occasionally obvious or subtle references to these episodes are made in future episodes, often resolving the cliffhangers in unexpected ways or further perpetuating the mystery of their outcome. The series finale ended deliberately with an abrupt cut-to-black in the middle of a scene, leaving the outcome of all surviving characters unknown.
Space: Above and Beyond: The final episode ends in an open-ended fashion, where T.C. McQueen is badly injured and most of the major cast is apparently killed or missing, with only Cooper Hawkes and Nathan West remaining. Yet with the Earth force in a much better strategic position, there is the motif of hope through initiative, despite losses and sacrifices.
Spider-Man: In the final episode of this series, Spider-Man saves all of reality from Spider-Carnage, an unstable alternate universe version of the character. Madame Web congratulates Spider-Man and transports both he and a powerless alternate world self (who had helped tremendously despite his lack of powers) to that person's Earth, where the truth about his origins are revealed, he is an actor who portrays the character on television, and takes him to see Stan Lee in this reality. Web promises Spider-Man they will find Mary Jane Watson, as unbeknownst to Spider-Man, she had fallen into a portal in the third season finale. The cliffhanger was never resolved due to the dreaded "65 episode rule" of Syndication, which had not yet been challenged as sternly as it is now (also, there were conflicts between Fox Kids network head Margaret Loesch and executive producer Avi Arad). Head writer John Semper had hoped to continue the series and resolve the cliffhanger, one proposed arc involved Spidey finding MJ in Colonial England and fighting Carnage once more, who had by now joined with Jack The Ripper.
Spider-Man Unlimited: There were a few cliffhangers in Spider-Man Unlimited. The Counter-Earth version of the Green Goblin was hinted to be the missing husband of Dr. Yamanda-Naoko Jones, who allowed Peter to stay with her and her son, (the Spider-Man Unlimited comic book also hinted a Bestial version of Wolverine was her husband, but its place in canon is uncertain). The series also looked at Carnage and Venom's attempts at contacting a symbiote hive on Counter-Earth known as "The Synoptic", which would menace Counter-Earth in the final moments of the final episode, just as Spider-Man and The Resistance had succeeded in overthrowing The High Evolutionary and his Bestial forces.
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Much like Spider-man Unlimited, the CGI series also ended on a cliffhanger with the expectation that a second series would be produced to resolve it. The main string of Peter Parker giving up being the Spider-man is not really a cliffhanger as fans know he would recant, but the trigger for it with one of the few new supporting cast members/love triangle member Indy being put into coma still remains. However the fact that the series was implied to have continuity with the first movie and the fact he is Spider-Man again in the second movie, with a second series planned (but never produced) means this still counts as a cliffhanger.
The Spectacular Spiderman: The series ends with Miles Warren taking control of Connors' lab and using it to perform illegal experiments to create super soldiers and the believed dead Norman Osborn seen in disguise leaving for Europe to continue his criminal schemes from afar.
Stargate SG-1: The final episode resolves none of the story dealing with the Ori Army's invasion of the Milky Way Galaxy.) This story arc was wrapped up with the straight-to-DVD movie Stargate: The Ark Of Truth
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the last episode, Benjamin Sisko is taken by the Bajoran Prophet into the Celestial Temple, leaving his son and pregnant wife behind on DS9. As this was an actual planned finale, and references were made to Sisko being back "in a year," there was early speculation of a theatrical movie in the works. (Although the movie never materialized, the Sisko family situation was resolved in Unity, a novel by S.D. Perry from the DS9 relaunch novel series. However, this novel, like all other Star Trek novels, is not considered to be official series canon, and did not actually happen in the series.)
Strip Mall: Every episode of this soap opera parody ended on a cliffhanger, including the last, in which Tammi gets thrown out of an airplane by Barry, who then yells, "Goodbye Tammi Tyler!" (In June 2001, Comedy Central made a cost-cutting move due to a rough economy by cancelling Strip Mall and That's My Bush!)
Stroker and Hoop: This animated comedy on Adult Swim ended with the titular characters falling to their presumed deaths.
Surface: cancelled after 15 episodes within running story.
Teen Titans: The final episode of the series, "Things Change", finds the Titans facing an unknown enemy while a grieving Beast Boy tries to understand what happened to the Titans' former member, Terra, who supposedly died in a cave collapse, and he finds her, somehow alive, yet the girl states her name is not Terra, but the girl looks like her, and it is revealed that the girl later on is actually Terra, who now has moved on and goes to school. She leaves Beast Boy in the mess of the student crowd as the bell rings and disappears. Beast Boy then gets a broadcast from Robin asking for assistance, and Beast Boy responds and leaves the school, and the screen fades to white, leaving the audience to wonder if Terra would ever return to being a hero. It was never resolved in the television film. Other questions left unanswered include what happened to Slade after Season 4 and who is Red X. It is presumably that the episode was non-canon. However, the cliffhanger was resolved in the comic book.
That '70s Show: The series ends on new years of 1979 with Eric returning from Africa and it is unknown if he gets back together with his old girlfriend Donna. Given the nature of the ending, though, it can be presumed that they do get back together.
ThunderCats: The series ended with an open ending which was resolved in the Wildstorm comic book mini-series.
Tilt: The series' archvillain, Don "The Matador" Everest, is arrested for murder, but in the final seconds, a key witness against him is found hanged to death in an apparent suicide.
Trailer Park Boys: The one hour series finale ended with Ricky, Julian, Bubbles and Ray going to jail for bootlegging. They all swear revenge on Jim Lahey as he changes the trailer park.
Traveler: The first season of Traveler ended with Jay, Will, and Tyler talking to the police station on a payphone, with the man and proof needed to save them from escaping jail. As they are telling the police chief that they have the proof outside, the car containing the proof explodes. They stand in awe, and then run away. It was then cancelled.
Tru Calling: After the original 13 episode season (2) had been officially picked up, production started for the new season. After 6 episodes were produced, Fox axed the series leaving the six episode season on an unanswered cliffhanger dealing with many unanswered questions about the mythology of Tru, Jack, Tru's father and the entire set up of her mother's death.
Twin Peaks: Dale Cooper is trapped in the black lodge, while BOB takes over his body. The show ends as Dale/BOB bangs his head against a mirror, repeating the words: "How's Annie?", as well as having several other characters involved in some type of cliffhanger.
V: The 1984 NBC version of V ended on Diana implying that she has put a bomb on the ship that Elizabeth has boarded and the reveal that Kyle has also stowed away on the ship, while the ABC remake in 2010 ended on Diana's daughter Anna "blissing" the entire Earth to allow her alien race to take over the planet.

Video games

Advent Rising: The game ends with the main character being sent to a frozen planet after defeating the final boss. The character passes out from the cold and is apparently saved by a large creature as the words "To be continued ..." appear on screen. Production of a sequel never came to pass because of financial issues.
Assassin's Creed: With Altaïr's memory complete, Desmond, no longer being of use to Abstergo Industries, is to be silenced; however, he is saved by Lucy Stillman, who reveals herself to be an Assassin by bending down her ring finger, to imply her membership. In the conclusion of the game, Desmond, having become "synchronized" with Altaïr, is able to use the eagle vision (a sort of empathic sight to see hidden messages and tell friend from foe), and sees messages scrawled across the floors and walls that only he can see that refer to the end of the world described by several religions, among other writings. The game abruptly ends right after Desmond sees the writings on the wall in his bedroom.
Assassin's Creed II: The game ends with the Roman god Minerva revealing that a catastrophe involving the sun will eradicate the Earth on December 21, 2012. During the credits, Desmond, Shaun, Rebecca and Lucy are found by the Templars and are forced to abandon their hideout, with Lucy vowing that Warren Vidic will get his comeuppance in the end.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: The game ends with Desmond stabbing Lucy under the control of Juno and the two falling to the ground unconscious.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations: Ezio's storyline ends after he finds Altair Ibn L'ahad's Apple of Eden, Desmond comes out of Animus Island and is told by the God's what he has to do. When he awakes he tells the modern day Assassin's, along with his father that he knows what he has to do. This will most likely be resolved in the upcoming Assassin's Creed III.
Axelay: At the end of the game on the hardest difficulty, after beating the game twice, a message saying "See you again at Axelay 2" promises a sequel to this game. However, Axelay 2 never materialized.
BattleTanx: Global Assault: Ended with the main villain being resurrected by an unidentified magician. No sequel was released before the company behind the game, 3DO, went bankrupt.
Beyond Good and Evil: This Ubisoft game ended with a main character, Peyj, being infected with a substance thought to be destroyed, setting up for a sequel. However, though it got very good reviews, Beyond Good and Evil had dismal sales but a sequel has been planned as of May 15, 2008.
Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space: The game ends with a strange turnaround. The players team sets peace to the world (supposedly sacrificing themselves). Soon after, the Mother Computer malfunctions and another World is deemed unstable. As Time Sweepers run towards a glowing door, Blinx is knocked aside, but gets up and gasps in shock, growling 'Not them again!'. The CEO hands everyone medals, yet it is unknown what Blinx saw in the door, whether the player's team ever got back, if the Tom-Toms are still fighting with the Cats or who Mina really is.This cliffhanger is unlikely to ever be resolved due to the poor sales and mediocre reviews of it and its predecessor,
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare: At the end of the final mission, the main character Soap and Captain Price were both wounded by an exploding tanker, and Imram Zakhaev comes and kills the SAS squad, but a Loyalist helicopter comes in and destroys their helicopter. Captain Price then slides a pistol to Soap, which he uses to kill Imran Zakheav. After that the loyalists come to rescue both Soap and Price. As Soap is lifted in the air a Russian medic tries to revive Captain Price, and Soap's view turns white as at a previous character's death, leaving the fate Captain Price and Gaz unknown.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: At the end of the final mission, Soap was stabbed in the stomach by Shepard. As Shepard is about to shoot him, Captain Price quickly jumps in the way and fights him. While they were fighting, Soap managed to pull the knife out of his stomach and throw it into Shepard's eye, killing him. Soap and Price are then taken on to a little bird helicopter with the pilot Nikolai saying he knows a place where they can hide. The game then goes to the credits.
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath: In the third and final act, LEGION (The Brotherhood of Nod's second AI after CABAL) reawakens in the post-Tiberium War 3 period, and Kane focuses it on recovering the Tacitus. The Global Defense Initiative (GDI) has been meddling with the device, causing it to become highly unstable; Kane needs the Tacitus for his master plan, so he orders the player to first awaken the Marked of Kane, a faction of cyborgs that only LEGION is capable of controlling due to its link with the destroyed CABAL. After its reactivation, Kane then sends the player to recover the Tacitus from GDI's facility in the Rocky Mountains. Kane then connects it to LEGION in the concluding scene of Act III, and the AI becomes infused with the vast knowledge of the object. The ending video shows a reverse of the Scrin campaign introduction video in Tiberium Wars with the words, Earth Warp Gate Status Active, followed by Commencing Phase 2 and lastly Invasion.
The Conduit: The main character, Michael Ford, ends the game by entering a Conduit that leads to an unknown destination to escape from a building set to explode. His fate is left ambiguous. During the end credits, the main villain can be heard talking to an alien contact, and reveals himself to be an alien disguised as a human on earth, and that there is still a plan to destroy the earth.
Dante's Inferno: After defeating Lucifer, the last scenes involve Dante seeing the freed soul of Beatrice and later at the step of Mt. Purgatory while ripping the tapestry off his chest. The tapestry then transforms into a snake and slithers away as Lucifer's laugh can be heard. Dante then heads to Mt. Purgatory as the message "To be continued" appears moments before the screen fades to black.
Dead Rising: After defeating the final boss, Frank screams into the air surrounded by hundreds of zombies and infected with the zombie virus. However, while the player is told that Frank is able to escape, there are other unresolved problems, such as kids infected with the zombie virus planted around the country, Frank's own zombie virus and whether he is cured, and the fate of Isabella, a supporting character.
Dead Space: Ends with the main character Isaac Clarke boarding a shuttle to escape the doomed mining colony on the planet Aegis 7. Having seemingly eluded danger, he removes his helmet and stares blankly into space for a moment. Then, something to his right catches his attention and he turns to see a monstrous apparition, which resembles his late girlfriend Nicole lurching forward to attack him. A quick cut to the credits follows and no explanation is given as to what happened to Isaac.
Diablo: Ended with the player jabbing Diablo's Soulstone into the player's head. The narrator says that you feel Diablo already trying to control you from inside the Soulstone and you feel that your salvation lies to the east. This cliffhanger was resolved in Diablo II as the player in the first game became Diablo himself and then the new player must defeat him and destroy the soulstone.
Diablo II: After the player defeats Diablo, a cinematic happens where Marius tells the hooded figure who he believes to be Tyrael that Diablo's Soulstone was destroyed. Then, upon Tyrael's request, Marius gives him Baal's Soulstone, and then Tyrael reveals that he is "not the archangel Tyrael" but actually Baal. Baal kills Marius, and sets the building they were in ablaze, and then the game ends with Baal walking out of the burning building with a horde of insect-like demons following him. This cliffhanger is resolved in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction when the player kills Baal. However, the datadisc ends with a cliffhanger, too: After killing Baal, Tyrael enters the Worldstone Chamber and tells the hero that Baal has already corrupted the Worldstone. Tyrael must therefore destroy the Worldstone, but admits even he cannot foresee the consequences of doing so.
Doom 3: While the Doomguy still makes it out alive, the game ends by showing a transformed Dr. Betruger flying through hell, still alive and waiting to strike back. He is finally killed by another marine in the Doom 3 expansion pack, Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey: Ended (and began) with Zoe Castillo, the main protagonist, in a coma while April Ryan from the prequel, The Longest Journey is apparently killed and Kian Alvane under custody. The antagonists were unaffected as shown in the ending and leaves many questions unanswered. (see Dreamfall: The Longest Journey#Story). According to the game's designer, Ragnar Tørnquist, these cliffhangers will be resolved in the upcoming episodic sequel, Dreamfall Chapters.
Driv3r: Following a car chase and violent shootout between Jericho's men and the Turkish police, Tanner faces crime lord Jericho in a final showdown. Tanner shots Jericho and injuries him, however he spares Jericho's life. However, Tanner turns his back, Jericho shots him. The game ends showing one of the men flatlining and a doctor using the defibrillator.
Driver: Parallel Lines: The game ends with TK giving the main antagonist, Corrigan, to Maria that tells him that he'll suffer more in her hands. However it's unknown if he dies.
EarthBound: After the ending credits, the protagonist, Ness, is awoken in the middle of the night by someone knocking at his front door. The knocker is Picky, who gives Ness a note from Pokey, which reads "Come and get me, loser! Spankety spankety spankety!" The screen then fades out to "The End?" However, Pokey's fate is revealed in the sequel, Mother 3.
F.E.A.R.: The game ends with the main character seeing the evil little girl "Alma" climb up on the side of your escape helicopter right before the game cuts to credits. After the credits, the player can also hear a conversation between a senator and the CEO of Armachan which explains that the whole game was created as a test for you, the Point Man.
Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core: The game ends with Cloud Strife taking the Buster Sword and Zack Fair's clothes. Cloud claims that he is SOLDIER First Class. The game ends with to be continued in Final Fantasy VII.
Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus: A post-credits scene shows the character Genesis Rhaspodos awakening from a chamber, he picks up the limp body of Weiss and implies that he may still be alive.
Gabriel Knight III: Ended on a cliffhanger, as Grace leaves Gabriel and goes to India. The story would have continued in the next Gabriel Knight game, but shortly after the release of Gabriel Knight III, Sierra officially stopped making adventure games.
The Getaway: The game's second ending, the second protagonist Frank Carter tracks down the mob on the Sol Vita ship, when the mob boss activates the bomb, all the gangs attack each other. while frank manages to escape by jumping out of the ship by the time the ship exploded, it's unclear if he survived.
Golden Sun: The game ends with a big earthquake, leaving all the points of the plot unresolved. The second game of the series, reads the savegame of the previous for continue the story. Initially the series was planned to be a single game, but it was divided in half due to hardware limitations.
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn: After the final boss, the world is now imperiled by a new threat. Psynergy Vortexes, which suck the elemental Psynergy from both the land and power-wielding Adepts alike, are spreading across the world. A new generation of heroes - the children of those from the previous games - are drawn into the mystery behind the vortexes, as they cross a chaotic world that is succumbing to a new evil
Half-Life: This series of games is perhaps the best known for its clever and even weird cliffhanger endings, with the games always ending with the hero being transported to an indeterminate dimension in the middle of a high climax for a meeting with the G-Man, who then congratulates the hero and cryptically tells him he has "assignments" for him. Three exceptions to this rule are the endings to Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two, although the last two also ended with cliffhangers, with Episode One ending with the fates of the two main characters being unresolved and Episode Two ending with Eli Vance's death; only Blue Shift has a non-cliffhanger ending.
Halo: Combat Evolved: While not as overt as the ending to its sequel, the ending to the original Halo game left the Master Chief and Cortana stranded in space on a single Longsword space fighter, with an ominous note that indicated that the story was not over, the Master Chief stating "No, I think we're just getting started." The novel, Halo: First Strike details the duo's return to Earth.
Halo 2: The game ended with the Master Chief ordering the UNSC fleet to cease fire on the Forerunner ship that he had stowed away on, to "finish this fight." The post credits scene shows Cortana with the Gravemind wanting to ask her some questions and her answering "Alright, Shoot". The limited comic series, Halo: Uprising bridges the gap between Halo 2 and 3.
Halo 3: The game ends with the Master Chief and Cortana trapped in deep space, aboard a destroyed frigate and going into a cryo chamber. In the Legendary ending, Master Chief and Cortana are heading towards an unknown structure.
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy: In the secret ending after getting 100 Power Cells, it shows Jak and the gang opening a Precursor Door that just shines brightly and everyone is saying how cool it looks, but it is never revealed until the beginning of Jak II.
Killzone: The game ends with the Strategic Defense (S.D.) Platforms destroyed, as Templar, Rico, Luger, and Hakha fly away.
Killzone 2: In the final cutscene, Sev and Rico finally find the Helghast Emperor Scolar Visari. Sev attempts to arrest Visari, but Visari goes on to deliver a little speech. Visari says that if the ISA were to arrest him and take him away, then Helghan will dissolve into chaos. The will of the Helghast people will be too much to contain, and the ISA would then be begging him to return order to Helghan. However, after hearing enough of Visari's speech, Rico (who has grudges against the Helghast) suddenly shoots Visari. Visari dies saying, "Madness ... The madness ... begins." As Sev walks outside, he finds that Visari was indeed correct. Hundreds of Helghast ships fly overhead and overwhelm the ISA forces.
Kingdom Hearts: After Ansem is destroyed, Sora, with the help of King Mickey and Riku, closes the door to Kingdom Hearts with Riku & King Mickey still inside. After Sora tells Kairi that he would come back to her, Sora, Donald & Goofy disappear as the worlds are restored & disconnected. After the credits, Sora, Donald & Goofy are seen chasing Pluto how has a letter from the King.
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories: In the end of Sora's story, he, Donald & Goofy go into a deep sleep while Naminé rearranges their memories back to the way they were, but at the cost of erasing their memories of their time in Castle Oblivion. In Riku's story, after destroying the last of Ansem's Essence, Riku still fears that Ansem is inside of him. He & King Mickey go on a quest to destroy it once & for all. As they exit Castle Oblivion they run into DiZ outside. After asking what he wants now, DiZ asks Riku which way will he take the "road to light or the road to darkness?" Riku tells him neither & that he's taking the middle road. After DiZ asks "The road to twilight night fall?" Riku says "No, the way to dawn."
Kingdom Hearts II: After the credits it shows Sora, Kairi, and Riku receiving a letter from the king. They read the letter, but ends without the letter visible to the player.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days: The game ends with Roxas being finally kidnapped by Riku and DiZ, who put him in a virtual Twilight Town. On day 359, after the first scene of Kingdom Hearts II is shown, Roxas runs eagerly to "The Usual Spot", clearly having forgot about his time in Organization XIII. The game ends after showing the clock tower, then fading to black, with Roxas' narration reminding the audience that there are only seven days left in his "summer vacation".
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep: In the secret ending of the game, "Blank Points", it is revealed that the note that Sora received at the end of Kingdom Hearts II detailed the story of Terra, Ven, and Aqua. Sora states that he has made up his mind, and he will save them. Kairi gives Sora her wayfinder, saying "See you soon", and the game cuts to a black screen reading: Reconnect: Kingdom Hearts.
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile: During the ending sequence of the game, after most of the plot is already untied, a major plot twist is introduced that questions many aspects of the story that appeared clear before, including the identity of the main character himself. The ending sequence finishes with the main character sucked off through a vortex to an unknown location (if any). If this cliffhanger was ever supposed to be resolved, remains subject of discussion until today, since later games of the Klonoa series do not pick up the Door to Phantomile storyline again.
Legacy of Kain: Each game in the series ends on a cliffhanger leading into the next game.
The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night: After defeating Gaul, Spyro found his friends Sparx and Cynder getting stuck in a crystal. After the credits, The Chronicler told Spyro he's not alone, and that when he wakes up, it will be a "new world". This means that Dawn of the Dragon comes out after this game.
Mass Effect: At the game's end, Commander Shepard states that the Reapers are still a threat, and subsequently vows to find a way to stop them while leaving the room. This is later explored in the sequel.
Mass Effect 2: Before the credits roll, countless Reapers awaken in dark space and begin their journey toward the galaxy, setting the stage for Mass Effect 3.
Metal Gear Solid: After the credits, a phone conversation between Revolver Ocelot and an unknown individual reveals that the man he is talking to is the third survivor of the Les Enfants Terribles project codenamed Solidus, who is at the time the President of the United States. Solidus would be one of the main antagonists of the sequel, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: A conversation between Solid Snake and Otacon reveals that the data recovered from Arsenal Gear does contain information on the Patriots, the group of people responsible for the political power in the United States. However, Otacon tells Snake that all twelve of them have been dead for about a hundred years.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: Revolver Ocelot, in a phone conversation with the Director of the CIA, Ocelot him that the microfilm stolen by EVA was a fake and that half of the Philosopher's Legacy is now in America's hands. It transpires that Ocelot has been triple-crossing everyone from the very beginning. He then reveals that he is in fact ADAM, and he has been working for the CIA all this time.
Mother: A man, revealed to be the protagonist Ninten's father, attempts to reach Ninten on the phone, saying that a new crisis has arisen.
No More Heroes: As a likely homage to cliffhangers in general, Travis is seen about to get cut down unprepared, on the toilet, by a challenger assassin in the "fake" ending, unarmed and completely unprepared. In the real ending, he is rescued by Henry, only to be challenged by him outside the hotel. In the concluding cut-scene after this boss battle, both characters rush each other headlong, with the result of the battle left unknown. The game teases the player with the message "Too bad there won't be a sequal". [sic?] This is untrue, as No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle is due to be released.
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath: The game ended with Sekto revealing his true form and escaping down the Mongo River leaving the player unsure of what will become of him and also the fate of the native grubbs

'Prince of Persia: Warrior Within'

Although the game features two endings, both conclude with the same cliffhanger, the Prince (alone in one ending and with empress Kileena in another) return to Babylon to find it under attack by a mysterious force. Curiously, this event is only explainable in the Kileena ending (the one which the game's sequel Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones picked up on) as the attacker, the Vizier, was looking for her.

Portal: At the end, as the credits roll, GLADOS says that she is "still alive".

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy: The game ends with the General's demise and a hostile helicopter entering the facility. Sara believes it to be help, but Nick informs her otherwise now that he finally regains his memory fully. Nick begins to use Telekinesis (presumably on the chopper) and the scene fades to black followed by "To be continued." No sequel has been announced.
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction: The ending cutscene of the game has Clank taken away by the Zoni but story was then continued in its 2008 sequel, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty.
Resident Evil Gaiden: One of the bio-organic weapons is able to mimic other life forms, but it bleeds green blood instead. After a boss fight where the bioweapon is supposedly slain, Leon's neck is shown bleeding green blood, revealing him to be the second B.O.W. Since Leon appears in Resident Evil 4, Gaiden is probably not canon.
Quake 4: After Kane destroys the Strogg nexus he is told he has new orders. What the orders were was never explained
Shenmue II: The saga is abruptly cut off shortly after the main protagonist Ryo Hazuki travels to Guilin China and meets the girl he was destined to encounter, Ling Shenhua. They discover giant replicas of the two mystical mirrors as the screen fades to black with text 'the story goes on ...' A third game is yet to be announced.
"Sin and Punishment": The game ends without revealing Achi's origins or who her true enemy is. It also fails to reveal whether or not Saki was able to return to human form and defeat the Ruffians or if he chose to side with them and take over the world.
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves: In the end Sly obtains Amnesia (He actually fakes it to get closer to Carmelita) and disappears. Right before the credits, Bently wonders if he will ever find Sly, then says "Time will tell, literally, 'cause I'm building a time machine to find out!" Then the screen closes in.
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1: If the game is finished with all 7 Chaos Emeralds collected, a cutscene is shown in which Eggman is seen with the shadow of Metal Sonic, with his red eyes lighting up. The cutscene ends with "To Be Continued".
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy: The game ends with Tutankhamen's mummy joyously rushing to collect his final canopic jar and restore himself to true life, only to clumsily trip and accidentally smash the jar, sending the final fragment of his soul flying off into the ether. Although kindly priest Imhotep vows that he and Sphinx will search for the final shard of Tutankhamen's soul, suggesting a sequel (a sequel may also be suggested by the lone "special feature," a making-of documentary, which shows footage of areas that are not visited in the game, such as a lush rainforest, although these could simply have been areas that were planned for inclusion but struck from the final game), no sequel is currently planned.
StarCraft: Brood War: In the last mission of the game, Sarah Kerrigan and her Zerg forces destroy the Protoss fleet, as well as the UED and Terran Dominion forces. Now Kerrigan becomes the most powerful entity in the universe, and Jim Raynor vows to stop her. This cliffhanger will probably be resolved in the sequel, StarCraft II.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords: The game ends with the Jedi Exile leaving to find Revan (the protagonist from the prequel), who is seeking the "True Sith" empire.
Super Mario 3D Land: After Mario rescues Peach, a floating letter lands in World 1-1 which appears to be Luigi being kidnapped by Bowser's minions. Mario must rescue Luigi from Dry Bowser in Special World 1-Castle.
The House of the Dead III: In one of the game endings, a businessman, which re-appears in The House of the Dead 4 picked up a vial containing the genes which contains the reanimation genes. The man's true identity, as well as his motives, are unknown, although it is likely that he might cause trouble at some point in the future. A fifth game is yet to be announced.
Tex Murphy: Overseer: The fifth entry in Access Software's popular Tex Murphy series of adventure games ended with the titular protagonist being shot by an unseen character. Access had intended to produce two sequels to Overseer but was bought out by Microsoft in 1998 as the adventure game market bottomed out, thus bringing an unexpected end to the series. In 2001, series creator Aaron Conners and co-creator/star Chris Jones independently produced six episodes of an online radio series to tie up Overseer's loose ends.
Thunder Force VI: The sixth entry in the Thunder Force series, in the endings of Rynex-R and Syrinx the game ends in "To Be Continued" indicating a possible sequel, however there's no news about that.
Toonstruck: Ended with Drew, back in the real world, sitting at his desk, when Flux Wildly calls him on the transmitter, explains that Nefarious is back and that Drew must return. Drew has no idea how to return, but is then turned into a toon, due to being hit by Nefarious transmorpher earlier in the game, and this pulls him back into the other world. The game was actually split in half during production, for the second half to be used as the sequel, but sales did not meet expectation, and the sequel was scrapped.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas: The game ended with a possible "To be continued" showing one of your former allies (turned traitor) escaping in a helicopter (or if you destroyed the helicopter, it says that only the body of the pilot was found). The sequel, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 resolves the cliffhanger.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent: The game ends with a possible "To be continued" after the main character, Sam Fisher, jumps off a coast guard boat that is about to be blown up after disarming a bomb, while being pursued by the FBI.
Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness: The games ending is Lara walking into the place where Kurtis fought Boaz. She finds Kurtis's weapon on the floor, but his body is gone. The blades on his weapon come out and it seems to turn Lara to a dark opened doorway. The blades go back in and Lara smiles. She walks into the shadows and the game ends.
Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal: Had two different cliffhangers, one for the Orc Campaign and one for the Human Campaign. The Orc Campaign ends with Ner'zhul stating to the player that the orcs left on Azeroth had "fulfilled their purpose", and so the player, Ner'zhul and the orcs on Draenor with them travel to perhaps another world through one of the newly opened portals on Draenor, now being destroyed and would be later called "Outland". In the Human Campaign, Alleria, Khadgar, and the rest of the heroes you control close the portal on their end (Draenor), to prevent Azeroth also being destroyed. The Heroes are trapped on Draenor, so they wander off to try and survive its destruction. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade follows the human campaign history with all the heroes except Alleria and Turalyon now residing in Alliance outposts in Outland.
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne: At the end, Arthas defeats Illidan and succeeds Ner'Zhul. Arthas puts on Ner'zhul's helm and then Arthas and Ner'zhul's spirits fuse. Arthas becomes the new Lich King and the most powerful entity in the world. This cliffhanger was resolved in the second World of Warcraft expansion, entitled "The Wrath of the Lich King"
XIII: In the last ten seconds of the game, the ultimate conspirator is revealed and the hero is left in a potentially deadly situation.
Shadow and Silver's endings in Sonic the Hedgehog '06: Both end on a cliffhanger, with Shadow's episode ending with him being ambushed by Mephiles clones, and Silver's episode ending with Blaze sealing herself within the Chaos Emeralds. Shadow's fate was revealed in the final episode but Silver never finds out what happened to Blaze. The game then ends with a time paradox, and everyone seems to have forgotten everything that happened in the game but Sonic seems to have full memory of everything…
Enter the Matrix: Ends with Niobe and Ghost sitting in the pilot room after destroying hundreds of Sentinels and Niobe announces whatever will come next will be "one hell of a ride". Niobe and Ghost's fates were revealed in The Matrix Revolutions.
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy: Has two endings, one being of the light side and the other of the dark side. In the first, Kyle tells Jaden that he still has some missions in the galaxy for him to make. In the second ending, Kyle says to Luke that they must capture Jaden. The light side ending is considered canonical, as Jaden is shown as a Jedi in Fury.

Books

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games # 2) Katniss survives the Quarter Quell and arrives in a Capitol Hovercraft where she meets her friend Gale.

"There's no more District 12. END OF BOOK TWO.

Shaman King - Yoh ends up falling asleep before the last battle with Hao and the reader is in the dark about how the fight ends.
The Animorphs series of children's books - Ended with a cliffhanger which disappointed many fans. The final members of the renegade Yeerk are located after 3 years of searching, and one of the Animorphs is mutated to become a god-like entity called "The One" to rule the New Yeerk Empire. The final chapter features all surviving Animorphs but Cassie setting their ship to full speed to ram the Yeerk command ship.
Chapterhouse: Dune - The novel ends on a cliffhanger with unanswered questions regarding the escaped ship, the merging of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, the role of Scytale, the development of Idaho and Teg, what chased the Honored Matres, the role of the Jews, and the identity of the god-like characters in the books final chapter. This cliffhanger was left unresolved for almost 30 years before a follow-up was written by the original author, Frank Herbert's son Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson. There is debate about the cannonicity of the follow-up book mainly due to severe inconsistencies with the rest of the series.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Nearly every novel of the series end on cliffhangers, notably beginning with the seventh.

In The Giver, the story ends with Jonas experiencing symptoms of hyothermia and illusions. It was left unclear if he died or found a new land.

In James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing, it is revealed that there is a bloodline that belongs to Voldemort out in the Wizarding World, and the book ends with the New Trio preparing for the challenges that await them.
In James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper, it is discovered that Petra could be the bloodline and is cursed to serve under the Dark Arts.
The most notable cliffhanger of the James Potter series is in the Vault of Destinies, where Petra sides with Judith and Izzy, Lucy being killed by Judith, and the three disappearing.

In the second volume of The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers after Frodo is stung by Shelob, he collapses and if lifeless and pale. Sam who thought Frodo was dead took the Ring to finish the quest. But when Orcs take Frodo's body, Sam follows them and learns that Frodo is not dead, but only unconscious, and is now a prisoner. Sam sets off to rescue Frodo.

Harry Potter series

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban after Harry and Hermione save Sirius Black Harry learns that the prediction that Professor Trelawney had was of Pettigrew escaping and that he will now look for Lord Voldemort and help him return to power again.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire after Cedric Diggory is killed by Peter Pettigrew Harry is forced to help Voldemort regain his body. Then, after a brief duel Harry escapes with Cedric's body and tells Dumbledore that Voldemort has come back. However, Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic, does not believe Harry.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry's godfather Sirius Black is killed and Harry learns of a Prophecy that says that either he must kill Voldemort or Voldemort must kill him.
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Snape kills Dumbledore and Harry go's after Snape to kill but fails. After Snape and the other Death Eaters escape, Harry and most of the school go to Dumbledore funeral at which point Harry ends his relationship with Ginny to protect her from Voldemort which she agrees. Harry then tells Ron & Hermonie that he is going to go & destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes and kill him and Ron and Hermonie tell Harry that they are going with him. Also Harry opens the locket he received from the cave and finds a note inside claiming it to be a fake and it is signed R.A.B. but nobody knows who those initials belong to.

The Goosebumps books always contained cliffhanger or twist ending's.

The Adventures of Tintin series

In the Tintin book Cigars of the Pharaoh, it is not revealed who was the unseen boss, which was revealed in the sequel.
In the Tintin book The Seven Crystal Balls Tintin and Haddock set out to search for Prof. Calculus and to solve the mystery of the crystal balls and the book ends and the story continues in the next book.
In the Tintin book Destination Moon Tintin, Haddock, Calculus, Snowy and Wolff almost die and the book ends with a cliffhanger leaving a mystery whether they die or survive, which is revealed in Explorers on the Moon.

Captain Underpants series

In "Captain Underpants and the Big Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy Part 1", George, Harold, Mr. Krupp, Melvin, and Sulu were chased by the 3 robo-boogers.
Also in "Bionic Booger Boy Part 2", George and Harold used the time machine 2 days in a row, which resulted in (non-deadly) ultimate universal distortion.
In "The Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People", George, Harold, Sulu, and Crackers were all chased by Professor Poopypants and his Freeze Ray. This cliffhanger is leaving readers hanging for 4 years and counting!
It's possible that "The Terrifying Re-Turn of Tippy Tinkletrousres" will have a cliffhanger judging by the pattern.

Other media

Red vs. Blue: The Internet Machinima web series has cliffhanger endings in almost every season. The Blood Gulch Chronicles season 1 ends with Donut sticking Tex with a Sticky Grenade. Season 2 ends with almost every soldier leaving the canyon to multiple locations. Season 3 ends with The Reds arriving at Blood Gulch again, and Church being attacked by the entity "The Great Destroyer". Season 4 ends with Donut being supposedly killed by a crashing ship and Tucker gave birth to an alien. Season 7 ends with Wash killing Donut and Lopez and Sarge, Church (a.k.a Epsilon), Griff and Tucker being Trapped in a Desert. Season 8 ends with Church going into the malfunctioning Epsilon Unit and waking up in Blood Gulch. Season 9 ends with Church being taken out of the Epsilon unit and Carolina saying that him and her are going to kill the Director
Homestar Runner: Pokes fun at cliffhangers in a Strong Bad E-Mail, as it shows many cliffhangers, and immediately after resolves them. Some examples includes Homestar "being pregnant, Strong Bad heading straight into what tuns out to be a "grodulated produce belt". This eventually leads to the cliffhanger of Strong Bad's laptop being stolen, which is resolved in a two-part email.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases: Arthur steals the Heart of Gold and leaves with Lintilla, Marvin, and all of the sentient systems of the ship. Ford, Zaphod, and Zarniwoop are left stranded with the ruler of the universe. This was never resolved because Douglas Adams never made a third series. Years later, the Tertiary Phase implies that it happened inside of a virtual universe, and Zaphod is the only one to have truly experienced it.
Mega Man Comic Book: At the end of issue 4, Mega Man, Dr. Light, and Roll are now on a trailer travelling when they are approached by X, who was sent back in time by Zero to change the dark future of Mega Man X where teh Maverick virus has gone completely contagious. This was meant to continue into a Mega Man X arc, but Dreamwave Productions went bankrupt before any issue could be published.