People shout, B.O.T.!

[Soft, futuristic music plays]

A grey spaceship with a red, yellow, and green light zooms through space.

[Spaceship whirring]

The people shout, B.O.T.!

Inside the spaceship, a silver robot with a blue circle nose lies in pieces.

The people shout, B.O.T.!

The robot wakes up and puts themselves together. They stand on three wheels.

The people shout, BEASTIE OBSERVATION TRANSMITTER!

The title appears.

The people read, B.O.T. AND THE BEASTIES!

[Energetic music plays]

[Horn honking]

Different Beasties knock over the title.

The people shout, BEASTIES COME!
AND BEASTIES GO!
BEASTIES, BEASTIES!
BEASTIES, BEASTIES!
OH NO!

A yellow Beasty with a body like a broom brushes away dirt.

A narrator asks, WHAT IS THIS
BEASTY?

The Beasty leaves.

In the spaceship, the narrator says, B.O.T., THIS IS YOUR MISSION!

B.O.T.’s nose turns red.

[B.O.T. whirring]

The narrator says, DETECT BEASTIES.
COLLECT SOUND DATA.

B.O.T.’s nose turns yellow, then orange.

The narrator says, COLLECT PICTURE DATA.

B.O.T’s nose turns green. An opening appears in the floor. B.O.T. hovers over it.

The narrator says, GO!

B.O.T.‘s nose turns blue. B.O.T. drops through the opening.

The narrator announces, ROCKY GRASSY WORLD!

[Whirring]

B.O.T. drops through an opening in the sky in Rocky Grassy World. On the ground, rocks of different sizes are spread across tall, dry grass. B.O.T. lands in a field of tall grasses.

[Buzzing]

B.O.T. reaches above the grass. Ahead, broken sticks are on the ground.

[Rustling]

B.O.T.’s nose turns red.

The narrator says, BEASTY DETECTED!

The large, yellow Beasty appears in the field beside B.O.T.

[Beasty exclaiming]

The Beasty approaches the broken sticks. The Beasty sweeps them up.

The narrator says, SWISH!

[Beasty exclaiming]

The narrator says, SWISH!

B.O.T. peaks through the grass at the Beasty cleaning up the sticks and fallen leaves. B.O.T. aims their sound data speaker at the Beasty and leaves the grass.

[Whirring]

The narrator says, SWEEPING.

The Beasty sweeps away the sticks and leaves.

[Beasty exclaiming]

The Beasty spots B.O.T., who jumps back. The Beasty sweeps away B.O.T., who stumbles out of the field in pieces. B.O.T. plays back a recording of the Beasty.

[Beasty exclaiming]

B.O.T.’s nose turns yellow, then orange.

[Beeping]

The narrator says, SOUND DATA, COLLECTED.

The Beasty leaves the field and spots B.O.T. in pieces.

The Beasty says, OOH!

They sweep B.O.T. away, to the edge of a cliff.

The narrator says, OH!

[B.O.T. whirring]

The Beasty sweeps B.O.T. off the cliff.

The narrator says, OH NO!

[Clanging]

[Banging]

[Beasty exclaiming]

The Beasty stretches over the cliff to the other side and continues sweeping the ground. B.O.T. appears from between the cliff sides.

The narrator says, OOH!

B.O.T. leaps through the air. Their pieces separate.

[Clattering]

B.O.T.’s parts crash through an old tree, breaking the branches.

[Banging]

B.O.T. stumbles back into one piece.

The narrator says, UH-OH.

[Beasty humming]

The Beasty approaches the tree’s broken branches.

The Beasty says, OH!

They sweep the broken branches toward B.O.T., who hurries away from the Beasty toward another field of tall grass.

[Whirring]

B.O.T. hides in the field with their picture data camera aimed toward the approaching Beasty.

[Squeaking]

[Beasty humming]

B.O.T. follows the Beasty. The Beasty comes to a stop.

[Beasty exclaiming]

The narrator says, OOH!

B.O.T. stops and hides behind the Beasty.

[Beasty exclaiming]

The Beasty continues alongside the field, while B.O.T. sneaks through the tall grass with the camera. At the edge of the field, the Beasty spots a pile of stick and leaves.

The Beasty says, OH!

They sweep away the mess.

The narrator says, SWEEPING!

B.O.T. leaves the field, rolling straight into the Beasty’s long hairs.

[Rattling]

[Beasty exclaiming]

B.O.T. pokes their head out of one side of the Beasty and tries to wiggle free.

[Whirring]

B.O.T. pokes out of the other side of the Beasty and tries again to wiggle free.

[Whirring]

B.O.T. pokes out of Beasty above the Beasty’s eyes. B.O.T. ducks back into the Beasty’s hairs. The Beasty shakes B.O.T. out of them.

[Clanging]

The Beasty says, PHEW.

Their hair is tangled.

[Beasty crying]

The narrator says, AWW.

B.O.T. rolls up to the Beasty. B.O.T. brushes the Beasty’s hair with the camera. The Beasty smiles. B.O.T. takes pictures of the Beasty.

[Camera flashing]

B.O.T.’s nose turns green.

[Beeping]

The narrator says, PICTURE DATA, COLLECTED!

An opening appears in the sky.

The narrator says, ALL DATA COLLECTED FOR SWEEPY
SWISH.

The Beasty, the Sweepy Swish, watches B.O.T. fly to the opening in the sky.

The narrator says, MISSION COMPLETE!

The Sweepy Swish continues sweeping.

[Cheerful music plays]

In the spaceship, a screen shows pictures of the Sweep Swish.

End credits:
Narrated by Emilia Danks-Smith.
And Children from the School of Theatre Excellence Birmingham.

Music, Andrew McCrorie-Shand.

Producer Chris Wood.
Executive Producer for C.Beebies, Sarah Legg-Barratt.

Executive Producer Mark Hollingsworth.
Created, Written and Directed by Anne Wood, Steven Roberts, Joel Stewart.

A Ragdoll Production for B.B.C.
C.Beebies B.B.C.
CAKE.

Copyright Ragdoll Productions Ltd. 2021.