Episode 1
Scunge
4m
Bubo comes up from the Trap Door once again and starts a fight one last time.
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TV series
The Trap Door
19862 seasons7.7 / 10
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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Checked Jul 22, 2026
The Trap Door premiered October 6, 1986. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
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.
Season 2 episodes
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Episode 2
Oh Globbits
4m
After Berk bungs up a burst water pipe with a worm, he has to get rid of a giant green flying sponge that came out of the Trap Door.
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Episode 3
Moany Boni
4m
A blue devil comes up from the trap door and starts casting annoying spells on everyone. Boni gets a body and starts making goat noises, Berk changes orange, then red, then grows large, and Drutt continuously changes color.
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Episode 4
The Horrible Thing
4m
Berk, Boni and Drutt play Hide and Seek while the Thing Upstairs is on holiday, until a horrible yellow thing comes up through the Trap Door and interrupts.
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Episode 5
Not Very Nice
4m
One of the Thing Upstairs' eyeballs falls down the Trap Door and Berk has to go after it.
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Episode 6
Bugs
4m
Berk and Boni have problems with a seemingly endless plague of creepy crawlies coming out of the trap door. Berk uses a bugpipe to lead the creatures far from the castle.
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Episode 7
Yum Yum
4m
Berk loses his patience with Drutt and throws him down the Trap Door, but he eventually decides to get him back by fishing him out.
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Episode 8
Birthday Surprise
4m
It is Boni's birthday, so Berk makes a cake for him and Rogg also joins the two for the party. Drutt is hiding, for initially unknown reasons.
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Episode 9
The Stupid Thing
4m
While Berk is giving the Thing Upstairs a slime bath, Drutt mistakenly pulls up a dragon from the trap door.
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Episode 10
Boo!
4m
Berk throws a large amount of rubbish down the trap door, filling it up to the top, but this summons ghosts that torment him for his years of improper waste disposal.
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Episode 11
The Lump
4m
There is a rotten smell in the castle cellar and Berk investigates. He finds out that something pink and smelly came out from the trap door. Rogg comes up and tells Berk, Boni and Drutt that it is a Lump which proceeds to make much noise.
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Episode 12
The Splund
4m
A creature known as the Splund comes out of the Trap Door and teases Boni and Drutt, while Berk is sewing the Thing Upstairs' pajamas.
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Episode 13
Nasty Beasty
4m
It is the middle of winter and Berk has to mend the Thing Upstairs's heater. Rogg comes up from the Trap Door with a green fuzzy thing stuck to him.
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Episode 14
What a Weirdo
4m
A pig worm comes up from the Trap Door and eats Boni, Drutt's babies, the Seal, and Drutt. Only Berk can rescue his friends and save the day.
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Episode 15
The Big Red Thing
4mfinale
The red thing returns to cause chaos, and Rogg chases it into the swamps, seemingly losing his life in confronting the creature.
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Cast
William RushtonBerk / Boni / The Thing Upstairs / Rogg (voice)Nick ShipleyDrutt (voice)
Terry Brain
Credits
- Created by
- Charlie Mills, Terry Brain
- Written by
- Steve Box, Charlie Mills, Terry Brain
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 40
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
ITV1United Kingdom- CMTB AnimationUnited Kingdom
- Queensgate ProductionsUnited Kingdom
Themes
claymationdark comedytrap doorworms