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"The second series of Sherlock draws to a close this Sunday night, and if the detective drama&amp;#039;s 2010 run is anything to go by, we&amp;#039;re going to be left on a storming cliffhanger! To mark the occasion, this week&amp;#039;s Friday Fiver names our picks for the best TV cliffhangers of all time. And yes, there is a reason why Doctor Who isn&amp;#039;t included - we listed that show&amp;#039;s greatest episode endings back in June!  Dallas - Who Shot J.R.? from &amp;#039;A House Divided&amp;#039;: Originally aired on March 21, 1980 We had to have this one - almost certainly the most famous cliffhanger in television history. The shooting of amoral oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) by a mystery assailant in the Dallas second season finale threw the world into a kind of hysteria. Betting parlours across the world took bets as to the true identity of the gunman and a session of the Turkish parliament was even suspended to allow legislators time to get home to watch the episode! Frenzied viewers had to wait eight painful months for the truth to out - ultimately it was revealed that J.R.&amp;#039;s sister-in-law and mistress Kristin Shepard (Mary Crosby) had been responsible for the attempted killing. The revelatory episode &amp;#039;Who Done It&amp;#039; was, at the time, the highest-rated television episode in US history.       Twin Peaks - The final scene from &amp;#039;Beyond Life and Death&amp;#039;: Originally aired on June 10, 1991 Another terrific TV cliffhanger and one made all the more painful for the fact that it was never resolved. Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) appears to have escaped from the creepy Black Lodge, but it&amp;#039;s revealed in the show&amp;#039;s final scenes that it&amp;#039;s actually his evil doppelganger - under the thrall of the terrifying BOB (Frank Silva) - who has returned in his place... Though spinoff film Fire Walk With Me did provide a few clues as to what happened to poor Coop next, his ultimate fate was left unresolved. What we&amp;#039;re left with is possibly the most unsettling conclusion to a TV show ever - &amp;quot;How&amp;#039;s Annie?!&amp;quot;      Dynasty - The Moldavian Massacre from &amp;#039;Royal Wedding&amp;#039;: Originally aired on May 15,1985 So we already included a soap with Dallas, but we couldn&amp;#039;t pass up the chance to revisit the wonderful Moldavian Massacre from Dynasty. This was a show that was never afraid of going to extremes - even without all the guns and attempted murder, there was the story of Amanda marrying a European prince in Moldavia. I mean, really. But let&amp;#039;s be honest - it&amp;#039;s the violence that really makes it. As the congregation are invited to &amp;quot;pray in peace&amp;quot;, terrorists burst into the wedding and start shooting wildly, leaving a big heap of groaning bodies on the floor. What with the squeals of: &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re going to kill us!&amp;quot; the huge number of smashed windows, the violently twitching people that get shot, the bells and the brilliant writhe-around-and-wrestle-the-gun-away moment, this couldn&amp;#039;t be more over the top if it tried (and that&amp;#039;s why we love it). But who&amp;#039;d been left dead?      The West Wing - The final scene from &amp;#039;What Kind Of Day Has It Been&amp;#039;: Originally aired on May 17, 2000 The first season finale of The West Wing was a beautifully structured episode, full of everything that made us love the show. But that ending was stunning. The show let us in on it, too - from the first time you saw that evil-looking baseball-capped youth in the crowd, you knew something big was coming. And then those people loading their guns from the building opposite... it sent chills through you, especially as everyone else is so happy. The chills keep coming - the moment when Zoey&amp;#039;s security service agent Gina realises she&amp;#039;s spotted something, but can&amp;#039;t quite figure out what, is heart-in-the-mouth stuff. And then that scream of: &amp;quot;Gun!&amp;quot; Bartlet - this strong leader - suddenly becomes a frail old man as he&amp;#039;s bundled into a car. CJ and Leo are pushed to the ground, Josh and Toby are pinned against some railings, and then it fades to black with the sound of sirens - and a security agent yelling: &amp;quot;Who&amp;#039;s been hit?&amp;quot; Stunning. Friends - Ross says Rachel from &amp;#039;The One With Ross&amp;#039; Wedding Part Two&amp;#039;: Originally aired on May 7, 1998 Proving that it&amp;#039;s not just dramas and soaps that excel with cliffhangers, enter Friends! The show was brilliant at ending on an &amp;#039;Oh my God&amp;#039; note - Rachel&amp;#039;s little uncomfortable look betraying her pregnancy at Monica&amp;#039;s wedding, Rachel and Ross getting married, Joey proposing to Rachel. Wow, that&amp;#039;s a lot of Rachel. But, obviously, there can only be one winner - and that&amp;#039;s Ross&amp;#039;s wedding. Rachel rushes to London to stop the marriage and tell Ross she loves him, but when she sees him happy with boo-hiss Emily, she can&amp;#039;t go through with it (let&amp;#039;s be honest, we all squealed in frustration with the audience). But her appearance certainly had an effect on Ross... who delivers that fateful vow: &amp;quot;I, Ross, take thee Rachel.&amp;quot; Who didn&amp;#039;t yell at their telly? The brilliant moment when the vicar says: &amp;quot;Shall I go on?&amp;quot; The shocked faces. Ross&amp;#039;s stuttered: &amp;quot;Emily!&amp;quot; Wonderful.      Do you have a favourite TV cliffhanger? Let us know below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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