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, BEASTY 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 tiny, purple, four-legged Beasty curls up into a ball.

The narrator asks, WHAT IS THIS BEASTY?

The Beasty rolls away.

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 BEASTY.
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, SNOWY ICY WORLD.

B.O.T. drops through an opening in Snowy Icy World where the land is covered in snow with tall snowy mountains. A planet in the distance has rings.

[Wind blowing]

B.O.T. lands on the ground.

[Yipping]

B.O.T.’s nose turns red.

[Buzzing]

The narrator says, BEASTY DETECTED!

[Whirring]

The purple Beasty rolls across the snow toward B.O.T.

[Yipping]

The Beasty briefly reveals their fuzzy nose and tail. They roll around B.O.T.

The narrator says, ROLLING.

The Beasty stops rolling. B.O.T. points their picture data camera at the Beasty. The Beasty starts bouncing up and down.

[Yipping]

B.O.T. trades the camera for the sound data speaker. A slightly larger, blue rolling Beasty joins the purple Beasty.

[Yipping]

Both Beasties roll around B.O.T.

The narrator says, ROLLING.

B.O.T. points the camera at the Beasties.

[Yipping]

The Beasties bounce up and down. A third, giant rolling Beasty joins the group.

[Yipping]

The giant Beasty knocks into B.O.T., who falls apart, then rolls away with the other two Beasties.

The narrator says, OOH!

B.O.T.’s wheels start to follow the Beasties but returns for B.O.T.’s other parts. B.O.T. reassembles themselves and follows the Beasties.

[Whirring]

The blue and purple Beasties roll under B.O.T.’s wheels. The Beasties spin and twist B.O.T.’s wheels. The third, giant Beasty rolls over to the group. B.O.T. aims the speaker at the giant Beastie.

[Beeping]

The giant Beasty nudges the blue Beasty, then briefly uncurls from their ball form. As a ball again, the giant Beasty chases the other Beasties. B.O.T. rides the giant Beasty across the snow.

[Whirring]

[Yipping]

The Beasties roll down a hill. B.O.T. falls off the giant Beasty and stumbles down the hill, rolling into a snowball.

The narrator says, ROLLING.

[Yipping]

At the bottom of the hill, the Beasties stand on their four feet and wag their tails.

[Yipping]

The Beasties share a hug.

The narrator says, HUGGING.

B.O.T. bumps into the giant Beastie, breaking the snowball.

[Grunting]

[Whirring]

[Giant Beasty grumbling]

B.O.T. aims the speaker at the Beasties.

[Beeping]

[Grumbling]

B.O.T. plays a recording.

[Grumbling]

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

[Beeping]

The narrator says, SOUND DATA, COLLECTED.

The giant Beasty glares at B.O.T.

[Beasty barking]

B.O.T. rolls away from the Beasties. The giant Beasty runs after B.O.T. The smaller Beasties curl into balls and follow them.

[Small Beasties yipping]

B.O.T. tries to roll up the hill but stumbles down it. At the bottom, B.O.T. becomes hidden in a ball of snow.

[Beastie barking]

The Beasties run and roll past B.O.T. and up the hill.

[Rattling]

As a snowball, B.O.T. peaks out of the snow with their glowing nose lighting the snow orange. B.O.T. struggles to stand. They roll part way up the hill.

The narrator says, ROLLING.

[Whirring]

B.O.T. struggles to make it to the top of the hill.

[Whirring]

B.O.T. rolls to the top of the hill. Elsewhere in the snow, the purple and blue Beasties leap off the giant Beasty’s back.

[Yipping]

The Beasties all wag their tails. The smaller Beasties hug the giant Beasty.

The narrator says, AWW, HUGGING.

The Beasties curl into balls and roll across the snow.

[Whirring]

B.O.T., as a snowball, rolls to a stop. B.O.T. looks around, then follows the Beasties, who roll to a stop.

The narrator says, ROLLING.

The giant Beasty looks at the snowball that surrounds B.O.T. curiously. The giant Beasty hugs the snowball

[Beasty grumbling]

The giant Beasty waves to the other Beasties. All the Beasties hug the snowball.

[Cooing]

The narrator says, HUGGING.

B.O.T.’s camera sticks out of the snowball and captures pictures of the three Beasties.

[Camera flashing]

The snowball slowly melts until the Beasties are hugging B.O.T., who takes more pictures of the Beasties.

[Camera flashing]

B.O.T.’s nose turns green.

[Beeping]

The Beasties let go of B.O.T.

The narrator says, PICTURE DATA, COLLECTED!

[Whirring]

An opening appears in the sky. The Beasties hug B.O.T., who moves away from them. The Beasties hug each other.

The narrator says, ALL DATA COLLECTED FOR HUGGY
ROLLER!

B.O.T. flies toward the opening while the Beasties, the Huggy Rollers, continue their hug.

The narrator says, MISSION COMPLETE.

[Whirring]

B.O.T. flies through the opening. The opening closes behind B.O.T.

[Beasties yipping]

[Cooing]

The Huggy Rollers curl into balls and roll across the snow.

[Cheerful music plays]

In the spaceship, a screen shows pictures of the Huggy Rollers.

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.