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The first TV cliffhanger was literally a character hanging off a cliff. Writers love literal chaos.

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The term cliffhanger is often linked to serialized fiction, with the name possibly from Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), in which a character hangs from a cliff. The claim has a grain of truth, but the first TV cliffhanger is not documented.

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