The Trap Door

1986 – 1990
Ended
Animation · Comedy · Family · Kids
~5m / ep
2 seasons
7.6/10

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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Latest: Series 2 · 1990

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E1. Scunge
Apr 21, 1990 · 4m
Bubo comes up from the Trap Door once again and starts a fight one last time.
E2. Oh Globbits
Apr 28, 1990 · 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.
E3. Moany Boni
May 5, 1990 · 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.
E4. The Horrible Thing
May 12, 1990 · 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.
E5. Not Very Nice
May 19, 1990 · 4m
One of the Thing Upstairs' eyeballs falls down the Trap Door and Berk has to go after it.
E6. Bugs
May 26, 1990 · 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.