The BEST episodes of The Trap Door

Every episode of The Trap Door ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Trap Door!

Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions where nobody goes, stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place lives Berk, the overworked servant of The Thing Upstairs. But that's nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath The Trap Door. For there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out...

Last Updated: 11/10/2024Network: ITV1Status: Ended
Creepy Crawly
star
8.40
5 votes

#1 - 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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Strange Goings On
star
8.33
3 votes

#2 - 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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Midnight Snack
star
8.33
3 votes

#3 - 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.

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Nasty Stuff
star
8.33
3 votes

#4 - Nasty Stuff

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/3/1986

Berk makes some medicine for his headache, but after drinking it he turns into a horrible monster.

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Bye Bye Berk
star
8.33
3 votes

#5 - 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.

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Gourmet's Delight
star
8.29
7 votes

#6 - 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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Slightly Weird
star
8.00
3 votes

#7 - Slightly Weird

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/6/1986

Berk tries to pick mushrooms for the Thing Upstairs's breakfast, until one of them runs off.

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Sniff That
star
8.00
3 votes

#8 - Sniff That

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/4/1986

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.

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Flyin' Wotsit Fingy
star
8.00
3 votes

#9 - Flyin' Wotsit Fingy

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/29/1986

Berk is trying to take a photograph of Boni and Drutt but gets interrupted by a green flying bat thingy.

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Bugs
star
7.97
33 votes

#10 - 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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Slither, Wriggle & Writhe
star
7.60
10 votes

#11 - Slither, Wriggle & 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.

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The Stupid Thing
star
7.50
2 votes

#12 - The Stupid Thing

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/16/1990

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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The Splund
star
7.50
2 votes

#13 - 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.

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The Lump
star
7.50
2 votes

#14 - The Lump

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/30/1990

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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Boo!
star
7.50
2 votes

#15 - Boo!

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/23/1990

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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Birthday Surprise
star
7.50
2 votes

#16 - Birthday Surprise

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/9/1990

Berk bakes a birthday cake for Boni but Drutt has a surprise of his own.

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Yum Yum
star
7.50
2 votes

#17 - 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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Scunge
star
7.50
2 votes

#18 - Scunge

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/21/1990

Bubo (in his final appearance in the programme) comes up from the trap door once again and starts a scunge fight.

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The Little Thing
star
7.50
2 votes

#19 - The Little Thing

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/23/1986

A noisy little thing has escaped and Berk must catch it before it wakes the Thing Upstairs.

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The Pain
star
7.50
2 votes

#20 - 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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Fester Rancid
star
7.50
2 votes

#21 - Fester Rancid

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/21/1986

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 beating him with a stick. Berk and Drutt arrive, lured by the sound of Boni's moaning that Berk had mistaken for singing. Bubo pokes Berk in the keister with the stick, sending the former straight into the bog, and Drutt tumbles in as well. They both get back out and Berk throws Bubo into the swamp. The three friends head for home, sure they've seen the last of Bubo, who can be seen swimming for shore.

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Ghoulies
star
7.50
2 votes

#22 - 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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Lurkings
star
7.50
4 votes

#23 - 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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Moany Boni
star
7.50
2 votes

#24 - 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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The Big Thing
star
7.03
33 votes

#25 - 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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