8.0/1020 votesLoading...#1 - The Big Red Thing
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 7/28/1990
The series finale. The red thing from episode one returns to cause chaos, and Rogg chases it into the swamps and confronts it.
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7.5/1018 votesLoading...#2 - The Splund
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 7/7/1990
The "Splund" of the title comes out of the trap door and teases Boni and Drutt, while Berk is sewing the Thing Upstairs' pyjamas.
Director: N/A
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7.4/1041 votesLoading...#3 - Breakfast Time
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/1986
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 breakfast, closely followed by a large Big Red Thing which chases Berk until Berk hides behind a mirror - the ugly monster gets a nasty shock and retreats down the trap door. Prompted by his master's demands for breakfast, Berk takes the yellow creature, which has eaten everything and fallen asleep, and feeds it to his master as Chef's Special...
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7.4/1029 votesLoading...#4 - Creepy Crawly
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1986
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, thinking it must be Boni's monster, but just then the enormous black spider drops down in front of him, wraps him in thick green web and chases him into the kitchen. Drutt spins the spider up in his own web and Berk is able to push it back down the trap door.
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7.3/1029 votesLoading...#5 - Gourmet's Delight
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1986
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 creature - Bubo - becomes visible and bright yellow. When Berk eventually catches the naughty Bubo, he finds a hole in the top of his head, blows him up like a balloon and lets him off into the air and lets him drop back down the trap door.
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7.3/1023 votesLoading...#6 - Flyin' Watsit Fingy
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 10/29/1986
Berk is trying to take a photograph of Boni and Drutt but is interrupted by a green bat, which he and Drutt pursue around the cellar. Ultimately, Berk's camera photographs them all, and the flier escapes into his master's bedroom.
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7.2/1030 votesLoading...#7 - Lurkings
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1986
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 by an enormous pink monster who creeps up behind them. Berk is so frightened he falls into the swamp, only to find the monster is friendly and wants to join in...
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7.2/1015 votesLoading...#8 - Not Very Nice
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/19/1990
One of the Thing Upstairs' eyeballs falls down the trap door and Berk has to go after it.
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7.2/1018 votesLoading...#9 - Bugs
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/26/1990
Berk and Boni have problems with lots of creepy crawlies coming out of the trap door. In a parody of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Berk uses a bugpipe to lead the creatures far away from the castle.
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7.2/1014 votesLoading...#10 - The Stupid Thing
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/16/1990
Berk throws rubbish down the trap door, filling it up to the top, but this summons ghosts that Berk thinks are after him.
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7.1/1029 votesLoading...#11 - The Big Thing
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1986
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 Rogg until he falls off the castle on top of Berk, who has come in search of Boni. Boni is left talking to himself...
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7.1/1024 votesLoading...#12 - The Pain
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/21/1986
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 instead. This episode is centered on Drutt trying to escape from the creature.
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7.1/1015 votesLoading...#13 - Yum Yum
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 6/2/1990
Berk loses patience with Drutt and throws him down the trap door, but he eventually decides to get him back by fishing him out. Unfortunately, Berk fishes out a red horrible thing that looks cute but, as Boni finds out, is actually anything but.
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7.1/1016 votesLoading...#14 - Birthday Surprise
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 6/9/1990
While Berk is giving the Thing Upstairs a slime bath, Drutt mistakenly pulls up a dinosaur-like thing from the trap door.
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7.1/1014 votesLoading...#15 - Boo!
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/23/1990
There is a rotten smell in the castle cellar and Berk investigates, he finds the source of the smell; something pink and smelly came out from the trap door. Rogg comes up and tells Berk, Boni and Drutt that it is a "Lump", and it proceeds to make lots of noise.
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7.0/1030 votesLoading...#16 - Ghoulies
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/15/1986
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' ... They rush back to the kitchen to find the trap door thumping open and shut and ghoulies floating about the place. To make them go away he has to read the spell backwards...
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7.0/1027 votesLoading...#17 - The Thingy
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/17/1986
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.
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7.0/1015 votesLoading...#18 - Moany Boni
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/5/1990
A purple, devil-like horrible thing with supernatural powers 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 colour (green, yellow, and blue).
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7.0/1015 votesLoading...#19 - The Horrible Thing
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/12/1990
Berk, Boni and Drutt play Hide and Seek while the Thing Upstairs is on holiday, until a horrible custardy yellow monster comes up through the trap door and interrupts.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1022 votesLoading...#20 - Don't Open That Trap Door
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/24/1986
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.
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6.9/1024 votesLoading...#21 - Yechh!
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 10/28/1986
Something horrible escapes and lays its eggs. Little things hatch quickly only to pop almost immediately, causing havoc for poor Berk.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1024 votesLoading...#22 - Midnight Snack
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 10/31/1986
Whilst everyone is asleep four near-identical greedy things emerge and raid the kitchen, causing a mess.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1023 votesLoading...#23 - Bye Bye Berk
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 11/7/1986
Fed up with running around after the Thing Upstairs, and fending off the trap door monsters, Berk leaves.
Director: N/A
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6.8/1033 votesLoading...#24 - Slither Wriggle and Writhe
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1986
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.
Director: N/A
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6.8/1025 votesLoading...#25 - Strange Goings On
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 10/30/1986
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.
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The Best Episodes of The Trap Door
Every episode of The Trap Door ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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...
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Network:ITV1
Best Episodes Summary
"The Big Red Thing" is the best rated episode of "The Trap Door". It scored 8/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/28/1990. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Splund".