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Title: The
Trap Door
Country of Origin: UK
Produced by: Queensgate Productions
Ltd.
Air Date: 1984-86
Number of Episodes: 40 Episode Length:
5 minutes Shown in: UK
Info:Crazy
and hilarious 3D stop motion animation, featuring the cute blue
creature Berk. Berk is a servant to The Thing Upstairs, and he lives
in the servant quarters with his friends Boni (a talking skull)
and Drutt (a naughty spider). Adventures are never far away when
the Trap Door is left open and creatures find their way into the
castle!
Written by Charles Mills, narrated
by Willie Rushton, music & lyrics by Bob Heatlie, directed by
Charles Mills and Terry Brain, produced by John Howson.
Trap Door lyrics
Narration...
Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions, where nobody goes,
stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place,
lives Berk "Ello!" - overworkd servant of the Thing Upstair
"Berk! Feed me!"... 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!
Don't you open that Trap Door!
You're a fool if you dare!
Stay away from that Trap Door!
Cos there's something down there!
Trap Door Characters
Monster guide coming soon!!
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Trap Door intro video
Trap Door Episode Guide
SERIES 1
1. Breakfast Time
2. Slither, Wriggle and Writhe
3. Food for Thort
4. Lurkings
5. Gourmet's Delight
6. Creepy Crawly
7. The Big Thing
8. Ghoulies
9. The Dose
10. The Thingy
11. Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite
12. Fester Rancid
13. The Pain
14. The Little Thing
15. Don't Open That Trap Door
16. Junk Food
17. Yecch!
18. The Flyin Fingy
19. Strange Goings On
20. Midnight Snack
21. Nasty Stuff
22. Sniff That
23. Vile Pile
24. Slightly Weird
25. Bye Bye Berk
SERIES 2
1. Scunge
2. Oh Globbits
3. Moany Boni
4. THe Horrible Thing
5. Not Very Nice
6. Bugs
7. Yum Yum
8. Birthday Surprise
9. The Stupid Thing
10. Boo
11. The Lump
12. The Splund
13. Nasty Beasty
14. What a Weirdo
15. The Big Red Thing
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:
Exclusive interview for 80s Cartoons,
with Terry Brain, co-creator of Trap Door and Stoppit and Tidyup!
Q1. Apart from Trap
Door and Stoppit and Tidyup, have you been invloved with any other
cartoon productions? Since Stoppit & Tidyup we've manly done commercials and
title sequences.
Q2. What exactly was
your job while working on
a. Trap Door
b. Stoppit and Tidyup Director, Writer & Animator! (As were all three of us)
Q3. How many other
people were involved with making
a. Trap Door
b. Stoppit and Tidyup Two others.
Q4. Which did you enjoy
making most, and why? Trap Door, because we were left alone for two years to do fourty
episodes! Alot of fun, but alot of late nights.
Q5. How long did one
episode take to make for
a. Trap Door
b. Stoppit and Tidyup Trap Door: Two weeks to write, build & shoot Stoppit &
Tidyup: About 10 days to write and shoot.
Q6. Was the success
of these cartoons a surprise? Yes, because you can only do what you think is funny &
hope that other people find it funny!
Q7. Which were/are
your favourite characters? Berk, Boni, Drutt & the big sponge!
Q8. Do you have a favourite
episode of
a. Trap Door
b. Stoppit and Tidyup Trap Door: 'Bye Bye Berk', when Berk resigns Stoppit &
Tidyup: 'Clean your Teeth', where it starts snowing in the middle
of sumer for no reason.
Q9. Are there any original
Trap Door models left? If yes, where are they? There's only two models remaining! Drutt is on our mantelpiece
(sitting in Boni's trolley) & Boni now lives at Aardman animations
on Steve Box's desk! (Steve worked on the Trap Door too)
Q10. Are there any
original Stoppit and Tidyup animation cells or drawings left?
If yes, where are they? Yes, they are in CMTB's old studio.
Q11. Who thought up
all the Trap Door monsters? Which did you think of? Myself & Steve Box mainly.
Q12. Did you ever have
a concept of what the Thing Upstairs looked like? No, we made it up as we went along! There are various clues
i.e. He flies, He has more than one eye which can be taken out
and cleaned, he has more than one mouth, etc... You can see part
of him in a lightning flash in one episode!
Q13. a.Who, or what,
made Drutt's noises??
b. Who or what made the noises for the characters Tidyup and Stoppit? Trap Door: Drutts noises were made by our editor who came in
from the pub and made lots of farty/squeaky sounds & then
we played them backwards.
Stoppit & Tidyup: Me!
Q14. Do you still watch
Trap Door or Stoppit and Tidyup? Only when other people watch it.
Q15. Is there any aspect
of either cartoon that you think could have been done better? I quite like it the way it is but if we had more money we could
of made it better.
Q16. Willie Rushton
did an amazing job with the voices - did he enjoy it? Yes he did! We had a great time together. He was such fun to
work with.
Q17. In Edinburgh recently
I saw a guy, aged early 20's, with a leather jacket that had the
Trap Door logo painted on the back - how does that make you feel? Chuffed!
Q18. Are you still
aware of all the devoted fans that are still out there, and probably
reading this?! Not really, but it's nice to know!
Q19. If you could say
one thing to all your fans, what would it be? Thanks very much!!!
Q20. What are you invloved
with now - any Trap Door or Stoppit and Tidyup recreations?? No recreations at the moment, but we may have a 'Trap Door'
type series in the next year or two. At the moment I'm working
on Aardman animations new feature film called 'Chicken Run' which
should be out in the cinemas next June!
