

The Trap Door
The Trap Door is a claymation-style animated television series, originally shown in the United Kingdom in 1984. The plot revolves around both the daily lives and the misadventures of a group of monsters living in a castle. Although the emphasis was on humour and the show was marketed as a children's programme but also for family entertainment, the show drew much from the genres of horror and dark fantasy. The show has since become a cult favourite and remains one of the most widely recognised kids' shows of the 1980s. Digital children's channel Pop started rerunning the show in 2010.
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Cast
Seasons

1.Breakfast Time
06-10-19864mA long-necked monster emerges from the Trap Door and eats the breakfast that Berk has prepared for the Thing Upstairs. Afterwards, a big, angry red monster chases Berk and Berk has...

2.Slither, Wriggle and Writhe
07-10-19864mBerk is trying to put up some shelves for his master and is using Boni as a prop to hold up the shelf. Looking for more wood, Berk opens the Trap Door and a huge octopus-like creat...

3.Food for Thort
08-10-19864mBerk is instructed to take care of the garden. He goes out to feed the plants, especially Thort, his master's favourite vegetable, an animal-like plant with a beak that tries to bi...

4.Lurkings
09-10-19864mBerk, Boni and Drutt go down to the swamp outside the castle to do some fishing. Berk has left the Trap Door open and is soon surprised by an enormous pink monster who creeps up be...

5.Gourmet's Delight
10-10-19864mBerk is cooking again, when something invisible comes out of the Trap Door and starts throwing things about. Berk scores a direct hit in retaliation with some yellow goo and the li...

6.Creepy Crawly
13-10-19864mA many-legged creature comes out of the Trap Door and scuttles off down the corridor. Berk goes in search of it and finds an enormous black spider dropping down in front of him.

7.The Big Thing
14-10-19864mBoni is bored, but Berk doesn't have time to talk to him. Then Rogg appears from the trap door and throws Boni from the top of the castle. Berk is then left talking to himself.

8.Ghoulies
15-10-19864mBerk and Boni are going through things in a room that's been left untouched for a long time. Berk finds an old book of spells and reads one out, summoning up the Ghostly Ghoulies.

9.The Dose
16-10-19864mThe Thing Upstairs has a cold, so Berk makes him some of his special medicine. Meanwhile, a green lump comes out of the Trap Door and drinks all the medicine - with rather strange...

10.The Thingy
17-10-19864mBerk is trying to nail the Trap Door down, but it's no good - a large peculiar looking creepy thing comes popping up and changes Berk, Boni and Drutt into all sorts of different sh...

11.Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite
20-10-19864mBerk goes to sleep, but a giant monstrous hand opens the trapdoor, grabs Boni and takes him down below. Now Berk must venture into the spooky strange area beneath the Trap Door to...

12.Fester Rancid
21-10-19864mBoni is pestered by Bubo, who has returned again to cause havoc. Berk goes to the rescue, but ends up in the swamp, menaced by swamp creatures. This time, Berk plans to teach Bubo...

13.The Pain
21-10-19864mThe Thing Upstairs has tooth ache and Berk is summoned to administer to him. Once he finds which head the bad tooth is in, Berk pulls out what he believes to be the rotten one. Mea...

14.The Little Thing
23-10-19864mWhile the Thing Upstairs is asleep, a little thing comes out of the Trap Door and zooms about so that Berk cannot catch it. Each time it stops it emits a loud fog horn. To Berk's h...

15.Don't Open That Trap Door
24-10-19864mBerk is tidying up and finds an old radio which starts to a familiar tune. As it plays, Rogg and other assorted creatures come out of the Trap Door to dance about. The Thing Upstai...

16.Junk Food
27-10-19864mBerk is told to throw out the rubbish and decides to throw it down the Trap Door. But Rogg appears and eats it all up with relish. He then climbs into the dumb waiter and wonders i...

17.Yechh!
28-10-19864mA creature comes out of the Trap Door and lays some eggs which hatch into green exploding creatures. Berk concerned with the mess decides to push it all down the Trap Door.

18.Flyin' Wotsit Fingy
29-10-19864mBerk is trying to take some photographs of his friends, when a flying creature comes out of the Trap Door. Berk has seen it before and knows that it gives the Thing Upstairs pimple...

19.Strange Goings On
30-10-19864mBoni has been complaining of boredom again, but Berk has planned a picnic at the swamp. First though he has to see the Thing Upstairs. Meanwhile, a tentacle pulls Boni down the Tra...

20.Midnight Snack
31-10-19864mBerk is asleep. Three monsters, called the Big Mouths, appear out of the Trap Door. They eat everything in sight and make a complete mess of the place.

21.Nasty Stuff
03-11-19864mBerk makes some medicine for his headache, but after drinking it, he becomes a monster.

22.Sniff That
04-11-19864mSomething with a lot of eyes sneaks up on Berk while he is trying to unclog a drain. An Elephant Bug that sucks things into its trunk climbs out too, and in the end solves both his...

23.Vile Pile
05-11-19864mAll the rubbish Berk keeps throwing down the Trap Door comes to life and starts spitting slime at him.

24.Slightly Weird
06-11-19864mBerk tries to pick mushrooms to feed the Thing Upstairs for breakfast, until one of them runs off.

25.Bye Bye Berk
07-11-19864mFed up with running around after the Thing Upstairs, and fending off the trap door monsters, Berk leaves.
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