'Best Model Animation' British Animation Awards (1988)

Series 1 [1-4] [5-8] [9-12] [13-16] [17-20] [21-24] [25] Series 2 [1-4] [5-8] [9-12] [13-15]

Breakfast Time (Series 1, Episode 1)
The first ever episode of Trap Door. Berk enters the room obviously frustrated with Drutt and tells him to "Buzz Off!", when suddenly a loud noise from his master's bedroom shocks both him and Boni. The Thing Upstairs has fallen out of bed and demands his breakfast. Straight away Berk runs into the kitchen and begins cooking. Boni is watching Berk from a distance working hastily to finish his master's meal, the little white skull then comments "He should have his own cookery program on the television", while Drutt re-enters the room and stops alongside Boni. Berk carries on cooking throwing a wooden spoon into the pot in an attempt to improve the flavour. Drutt continues to then run around the kitchen. Berk quickly places his masters breakfast inside the oven and informs The Thing Upstairs "Won't be long old fattage its in the oven" and then proceeds to leave the kitchen while its heating up. Drutt is still in the kitchen until Berk enters to check the oven and tells him to "Buzz Off!", again!

The Thing Upstairs then beckons down to Berk to check that he isn't fiddling about with The Trap Door, this prompts Berk to open it up and have a look even though Boni has told him that its not a good idea. A number of worms crawl out and Druttt continues to devour one of them until a large yellow creature flips The Trap Door open and scares him away. Meanwhile Berk is knocked flying into the corner by The Trap Door while the creature climbs out and heads towards the pile of freshly made pies for The Thing Upstairs' breakfast. Running over towards the creature Berk tries to stop him but its to late, its eaten all of the pies and Berks enraged.

In all the commotion Berks forgotten to shut the Trap Door and before Boni can tell him why it isn't such a good intention to leave it open, another scary looking red monster climbs out, even bigger than the first. Berk hasn't got a clue what it is and makes a run for the nearest corridor and hides inside a dark cupboard. Lighting a candle Berk discovers a large mirror and has an brainwave. The large red monster chasseing him breaks trough the cupboard door and forces Berk to hide behind the same mirror. The monster is so horrified by its own reflection in the mirror that it rapidly runs out the cupboard and jumps back down The Trap Door leaving the excitable Drutt to slam it shut. Berk can't believe his luck while Boni couldn't get over how ugly the large red monster actually was. The Thing Upstairs then demands its breakfast yet again and Berk unsure quiet what to say informs him that its "Inside the big yellow thing", indicating the yellow creature that came out The Trap Door earlier and is now resting in the kitchen. The creature has fallen asleep after ingesting all those pies and Berk uses the opportunity to push him inside the lift that goes directly upstairs to his master. Berk pulls the lever and sends the creature upstairs. The Thing Upstairs sounds delighted with his breakfast and promptly eats the creature. Submitted By Chris Porter

 

Slither, Wriggle And Writhe (Series 1, Episode 2)
Berk appears clutching Boni in his hands. They both appear to be arguing about something, Boni claims that he isn't moaning but as usual he inevitably is. In fact Berk wants to use the little white skull as a prop for his bench while he's putting up a shelve on the wall. Drutt appears running behind Berk and causing a general nuisance of himself until Berk notices the little grey pest and warns "Clear Off, You!". Berk continues to place the wooden shelve up on the wall with Boni holding him up. That is until Boni begins a conversation and brings both Berk and the shelve crashing to the floor as a result of Boni affecting the bench. The Thing Upstairs obviously alerted by the noise shouts "Berk, What's all that noise?". Berk explains that he's just putting up the shelves like he's been told, to which The Thing Upstairs replies "Just keep it down".

Berk obviously angry with Boni places him back in his hole opposite the Trap Door while muttering to himself that he needs to find some replacement wood. That's when he has the bright idea of using the wood from the lid of the Trap Door. Opening it up a number of worms wriggle out. Boni doesn't like the scheme and moans "I wouldn't recommend it". Just at that moment the Trap Door fly's out off Berks hand and five large orange tentacles beginning waving in the air. Boni then as annoying announces to Berk "What did I say!". Obviously stunned Berks unsure what to do and just at that minute a large orange tentacles crabs hold of a plank of wood and bonks Berk over the head. It then continues to spin Boni round in a circle and throw Drutt against a wall after he bit one of the tentacles. Not stopping there it then wraps itself around Berk and pulls him down the Trap Door. After a couple of seconds Berk reappears soaring into the roof above the Trap Door entrance. Berk manages to crab hold of a wooden beam and notices that it would make an ideal replacement for the shelve from earlier. However Boni shouts worriedly "Don't forget our little problem down here Berk". With this another orange tentacles crabs Berk pulling him back down to the ground along with the blank of wood and chunks of concrete from the ceiling.

Berks had enough and excitably yells "Right its bonking time" and grabs the piece of wood alongside him. With this he continues to smash the tentacles repeatedly. Until the monster disappears back down the Trap Door after Berk clobbers it for the last time, unfortunately hitting Drutt in the process. Berk extremely happy with himself realises that he can use his new found weapon for the shelve and wonders where Bonis got to. With this Boni reappears from behind the corner in his hole and worriedly announces to Berk "Not here". A while later Berks finished constructing his shelves decorated with various pots and jars. Boni and Drutt comment on what a good job he's done until The Thing Upstairs shouts increasingly louder "Berk, Berk, Berk, Have you finished those shelves yet?" and with that everything comes crashing to the ground smashing everything to pieces. Submitted By Chris Porter

 

Food For Thort (Series 1, Episode 3)
Boni comments on just how quiet it seems that is until The Thing Upstairs loudly beckons "Berk!" causing the little skull Boni a terrifying shock. Berk enters the room in reaction to his masters voice, The Thing Upstairs continues "How's my garden, I hope its looking nice?". Berk clearly uninterested in his rotten garden replies "Its looking lovely" simply to put his demanding masters mind to rest. Berk decides in the end its probably best to check the garden even though he thinks its horrible.

Entering the noisy garden Berk tries to calm down the mass of living vegetables making a racket of excitement. Berk suddenly realises just how terrible things have become in his masters garden and comments "Oh dear, horrible things do look a bit hungry don't they". With this he rushes to get some food and on returning he begins to feed them individually. Berk then decides he better feed Thort as well, his masters favourite vegetable and proceeds to a different part of the garden. Despite looking Berk is unable to find Thort that is until the massive vegetable and its huge beak lunge forward out of the darkness. Berk is taken aback and can't believe how big its grown. He continues to try and feed the massive creature constantly repeating "Don't Snatch!" and it tries to steal the food nestled inside Berks hands. Finally giving up after all the food has gone Berk decides to retreat mainly because he thinks its to dangerous to stay there any longer. Clearly pleased with himself Berk decides to prepare dinner for The Thing Upstairs but that's not until he stops off at the Trap Door first in the attempt to locate some worms to put inside his masters pie, of course worms being the main ingredient.

To Berks surprise before he has chance to open the Trap Door, it swings open by itself followed by a swarm of flying black and red insects accompanied by large pointed stingers at their base. Berk unsure what to do tries to swat them and cries out "Swat! Swat! Stand still and be swatted!" to little effect. One of the flying horrible creatures manages to sneak up behind Berk and sting him on the bottom leaving a large yellow lump. Berk decides its time to escape and makes a run towards the garden where he was in earlier followed by a large pack of stinging beasties. Thort manages to rescue Berk by making quick work of eating the entire swarm of insects that were chasing him, Berk can't believe his luck. After realising Thorts great appetite for the little creatures Berk has a cunning idea and tries to push the giant vegetable towards the Trap Door where the remaining insects continue to fly around the room. Thort clearly excited makes a dash for it and drags Berk at great speed trough the corridors until Berk lets go and crashes into his kitchen. Meanwhile Thort wastes no time in eating the remaining pests to Berks clear delight. Suddenly the room shakes to echo of The Thing Upstairs' voice "Berk, I'm hungry!". This gives Berk yet another brainwave and replies "How do you fancy a nice salad?", indicating poor Thort as the main feature. Submitted By Chris Porter

 

Lurkings (Series 1, Episode 4)
Berk enters the room pushing Boni along on his little brown trolley, he plans to go fishing even tough Boni complains "I don't want to go". Berk clearly used to his moaning carries on regardless and calls Drutt who seems as anxious to go as he does. Berk continues "I better get some bait, worms is best". He opens the Trap Door and as usual a large bunch of worms begin to crawl out. While Drutt devours a large number of them, Berk collects enough to fill his bucket on the small trolley alongside Boni. Berks begins to pull the trolley and excitably reveals that their going to which Boni moans "Do we have to?". Berk tells the little white skull "Oh shut up!" and carries on dragging the trolley towards the swamp. In all the excitement however Berks forgotten to shut the Trap Door and it seems that Boni is the only one that has noticed but Berk has obviously chosen to ignore him in attempt to block out the moaning.

They've made their way out the castle and are nearly at the swamp while Berk happily announces "Oh what a lovely day for a spot of fishing". Berk enquires how Boni is and typically he exclaims "No Berk I'm not at all happy, I'm bored!" again Berk ignores him and carries on towards the swamp. Meanwhile back at the castle a large purple creature is sitting by the Trap Door that is until its curiosity leads it to explore the rest of the castle. Berk still excited on the other hand has discovered a perfect spot to do some fishing by the swamp and parks Boni up with he bucket of worms at the edge of the bog. While this is happening just around the corner appears the large purple creature who's apparently managed to find its way out of the castle. Clearly amazed by its surroundings it continues to play with some yellows bugs its found on a rock.  Berk on the other hand hasn't taken long in setting up his fishing equipment and is comfortably perched over the edge of the swamp. He is clearly enjoying the rest and tells Boni "Ah here we are then, this is the live" while Drutt continues to run around and unsurprisingly falls into the quagmire although he's clearly enjoying himself. Berk waving his fishing rod about turns and says "I bet I catch something really big eh Boni", however Boni apparently bored still replies "I doubt theirs anything in there". Just as Boni had finished talking a large green monster with two bulging eyes on stalks had risen out of the swamp. The creature took a look around at both Berk and Boni and then disappeared back beneath the surface. Berk commented "I think I would have considerable trouble stuffing that in a sandwich", referring to the pure size of it.

While Boni continued to moan about being by the swamp fishing little Drutt materialised from the swampy waters clearly still enjoying himself. Meanwhile Berk continued in vain to catch something for his masters meal. That was until the large purple creature that had climbed out of the Trap Door earlier made a noise while hiding behind some rocks. Berk was shocked by the sound that was until he noticed Drutt was eating his bait. He stopped Drutt by bonking him over the head with what looked like a large piece of wood he found nearby. Berk temporarily started to complain at the pair of them and said "All I wanted was a nice afternoons fishing, I wish I never bothered now!". Boni had noticed the large purple creature now standing behind Berk but in futile attempt his was unable to warn him. Finally Boni got Berks attention and told him "But there's something behind you", clearly taken aback Berk finally looked behind himself and notice the large beast. Berk was in fact so surprised he fell in the swamp. Meaning no harm the purple thing turned to Boni and Drutt and said at a snail's pace "Hello, my names Rogg". Boni saw the funny side of it all and replied "Good old Rogg, he certainly brighten up my day". Rogg continued to pick up Berks fishing rod and said kindly "Hello, I like fishing mind if I join you". Submitted By Chris Porter

 

   

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