The Trap Door

  • Premiered: Oct 1986
  • Episodes: 40
  • Followers: 4
  • Ended
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  • Unknown
  • Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Horror

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Season 1
1x1
Breakfast Time
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 06, 1986
Berk is busy preparing his master's breakfast - from worms and other vile concoctions, when a strange yellow creature comes out of the trap door in the kitchen floor and eats the .. show full overview
1x2
Slither, Wriggle & Writhe
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 07, 1986
Berk is trying to put up some shelves for his master and is using Boni as a prop to hold up the shelf. Looking for some more wood, Berk opens the trap door, but a huge octopus-like creature emerges with writhing arms and creates havoc in the kitchen.
1x3
Food for Thort
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 08, 1986
Berk is instructed to go and see to the garden. He goes out to feed the plants, especially Thort, his master's favourite vegetable. Returning to the kitchen he opens the trap door to get .. show full overview
1x4
Lurkings
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 09, 1986
Berk, Boni and Drutt go down to the swamp outside the castle to do some fishing. Boni is moaning because he finds it boring, but Berk has left the trap door open and he is soon surprised .. show full overview
1x5
Gourmet's Delight
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 10, 1986
Berk 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 little .. show full overview
1x6
Creepy Crawly
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 13, 1986
Something large and black with "lots of legs" comes out of the trap door and scuttles off down the corridor, but Berk won't believe Boni. He goes in search of it and finds a tiny spider, .. show full overview
1x7
The Big Thing
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 14, 1986
Boni is bored, but Berk doesn't have time to talk to him. Then Rogg appears from the trap door and takes Boni out 'to play' on top of the castle ramparts. Boni talks and talks and bores .. show full overview
1x8
Ghoulies
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 1986
Berk 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' ... .. show full overview
1x9
The Dose
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 16, 1986
The Thing Upstairs has a cold, so Berk makes him some of his special medicine. Meanwhile, a 'horrible green gobby lump' comes out of the trap door and drinks all the medicine, with .. show full overview
1x10
The Thingy
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 17, 1986
Berk is trying to nail the trap door down, but it's no good - a large peculiar looking Thingy comes popping up and changes Berk, Boni and Drutt into all sorts of different shapes, before eventually disappearing again, leaving them back to normal.
1x11
Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 20, 1986
Berk goes to sleep but something horrid emerges from the Trap Door and kidnaps Boni. Berk goes down to rescue him. This is one of two episodes which is revealed to be a dream at the end, the other being "Moany Boni".
1x12
Fester Rancid
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 21, 1986
Bubo, the spout-headed troublemaker from "Gourmet's Delight" is back and he's pushing a distressed Boni about the workroom on his trolley. He takes Boni out to the swamp and starts .. show full overview
1x13
The Pain
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 21, 1986
The Thing Upstairs has toothache so Berk goes to sort it out. Drutt wedges open the trap door so he can eat some worms, inevitably releasing a hungry slug thing which decides to eat him .. show full overview
1x14
The Little Thing
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 23, 1986
A noisy little thing has escaped and Berk must catch it before it wakes the Thing Upstairs.
1x15
Don't Open That Trap Door
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 24, 1986
Whilst cleaning out his cupboard Berk finds an old radio and all the monsters (past and future) emerge from the trap door to dance to the theme tune. This episode acts as more of a music video of the series.
1x16
Junk Food
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 27, 1986
Rogg returns and eats all the garbage; he then causes trouble by going up in the lift to the Thing Upstairs's room.
1x17
Yechh!
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 28, 1986
Something horrible escapes and lays its eggs. Little things hatch quickly only to pop almost immediately, causing havoc for poor Berk.
1x18
Flyin' Wotsit Fingy
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 29, 1986
Berk is trying to take a photograph of Boni and Drutt but gets interrupted by a green flying bat thingy.
1x19
Strange Goings On
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 30, 1986
Berk is taking everyone on a picnic but has to scratch the Thing Upstairs before he leaves. While he's gone something pulls Boni down the trap door. This episode is centered on Boni and his experiences through the trap door caverns then the swamp.
1x20
Midnight Snack
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 31, 1986
Whilst everyone is asleep four near-identical greedy things emerge and raid the kitchen, causing a mess.
1x21
Nasty Stuff
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 03, 1986
Berk makes some medicine for his headache, but after drinking it he turns into a horrible monster.
1x22
Sniff That
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 04, 1986
Something with a lot of eyes sneaks up on Berk while he's trying to unclog a drain. Another thing that sucks things into its mouth climbs out too, and in the end solves both his problems.
1x23
Vile Pile
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 05, 1986
All the rubbish Berk keeps throwing down the trap door comes to life and starts spitting slime at him.
1x24
Slightly Weird
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 06, 1986
Berk tries to pick mushrooms for the Thing Upstairs's breakfast, until one of them runs off.
1x25 Season finale
Bye Bye Berk
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 07, 1986
Fed up with running around after the Thing Upstairs, and fending off the trap door monsters, Berk leaves.

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