Creepy Crawly Adventures

**Creepy Crawly Adventures** is a UK VHS release, containing the first twelve episodes episodes from the first season of the television series. It was distributed by Channel 5 Video in 1986, then it was re-released by Castle Vision sometime during 1991.

## Description

“*Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions were nobody goes, stands and old and spooky castle - home of the bad-tempered thing.*

Berk *is the thing's overworked servant - and there's always plenty for him to do, from cooking worm and slug pies and preparing potions, to unblocking drains, putting up shelves or even fishing for breakfast in the swamp.*

*Deep in the cellar of the castle is the Trap Door, entrance to the dark caverns and passageways under the castle, and you must never leave the Trap Door open - for there is always something down there in the dark **waiting to come out.***

*Join Berk and his friends, Boni, the long-suffering, wise old skull, and Drutt, his mischievous and unhelpful pet, in this series of 12 adventures from the popular children's television series - and remember... **STAY AWAY FROM... THE TRAP DOOR!***”

## Episodes

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*

## Trivia

* Channel 5 Video released the original release on the very same day as *Watch Out for That Nasty Stuff*, which is the distribution company’s second volume of the television programme.
* The title of this release is likely a reference to *Creepy Crawly*, one of the episodes featured on the release.
* Castle Vision soon re-released all the episodes on a later VHS release, *Breakfast Time and 11 Other Adventures*, in 2000.
* On the original release, after the Channel 5 Video logo plays, there is a title card shown before the programme. The card reads “The Trap Door: Creepy Crawly Adventures”. It features the TV series logo, placed on a pitch-black background, with “Creepy Crawly Adventures” written as white captions underneath the logo. The title card is not present on the re-release.
* On both releases, the full television series opening sequence is only ever seen at the start of the first episode. All the subsequent episodes begin with just their episode titles.
* The original release only features the closing credits sequence at the end of the last episode, but the re-release features them at the end of every episode on the video.
* A title card, which reads “A Queensgate Production”, appears after the closing credits of the last episode on both releases.
* On the original release, the label on the cassette reads the release by its actual title. This is different to later releases of the series from Channel 5 Video, because the cassette labels abbreviate those release titles as volume numbers.
	+ However, the label on the cassette of some issues of the original release read “*Trap Door: Volume 1*”. Those issues also substitute the original “Channel 5” logo for the “PolyGram Video” logo, due to the renaming of the distribution company.

## Goofs

* As shown on the cassette box inlay sleeve of both releases, the feature is classified with a BBFC “U” rating. However, the cassette label on the “PolyGram” issues of the original release incorrectly and inappropriately classifies the feature as “Uc”.

## Gallery

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