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 large, tear-shaped, orange beasty struggles to fly. They have tiny green wings and a spinning green pinwheel on their head.

The narrator asks, WHAT IS THIS BEASTY?

The Beasty flies 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 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, SPACEY GLOWY WORLD.

B.O.T. drops through an opening in the star filled night sky of Spacey Glowy World where there are small, colourful glowing asteroids. Colourful lights shine from craters on the ground.

[Whirring]

B.O.T. lands on the ground beside a crater.

[Whirring]

[Flapping]

B.O.T.’s nose turns red.

[Beeping]

The narrator quietly says, BEASTY DETECTED!

[Flapping]

In a crater, the orange Beasty’s pinwheel spins.

[Flapping]

The Beasty struggles to fly out of the crater.

[Sighing sadly]

B.O.T. peaks inside the crater. The Beasty’s pinwheel spins faster and they pop out of the crater. They flap their tiny wings.

The narrator says, FLYING!

The Beasty’s pinwheel stops, starts, then stops again. The Beasty frowns. They fall on top of B.O.T.

[Beasty groaning]

The Beasty looks up at the sky. The stars sparkle.

The Beasty says, OH!

They rapidly flaps their wings.

[Beasty grunting]

B.O.T. rises from the ground.

[Whirring]

The Beasty flies off B.O.T.

[Grunting]

B.O.T. aims their sound data speaker at the Beasty.

[Beeping]

[Flapping]

[Grunting]

B.O.T. plays back a recording.

[Flapping]

[Beeping]

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

The narrator says, SOUND DATA, COLLECTED.

The Beasty stops flapping their wings. Their pinwheel stops spinning, and they fall on B.O.T.

[Grunting]

[Sighing]

B.O.T. lifts the Beasty off them.

[Whirring]

The Beasty flaps their wings. They fly off B.O.T.

[Grunting]

B.O.T. aims their picture data camera at the Beasty.

[Grunting]

The Beasty falls on B.O.T.’s mechanical arm that holds the camera.

[Whirring]

B.O.T. tries to pull their arm free. It breaks off and B.O.T. falls.

[Whirring]

The Beasty looks up at the stars sparkling in the sky.

[Twinkling]

[Beasty crying]

The ground shakes. The Beasty flies again.

[Grunting]

B.O.T. pries their arm off the ground. They stumble as the Beasty falls back down.

[Beasty sighing]

The Beasty’s lip trembles. B.O.T. points the camera at the Beasty.

[Beasty wailing]

B.O.T. stumbles into a nearby crater.

[Whirring]

The Beasty flaps their wings and their pinwheel spins.

[Grunting]

The Beasty starts to fly higher.

The narrator says, FLYING.

B.O.T. stretches up to the Beasty’s level.

The narrator says, WONKY FLYING.

The Beasty falls to the ground.

[Beasty sighing]

B.O.T. follows the Beasty up and down with the camera as the Beasty tries flying again and again.

[Whirring]

[Grunting]

[Flapping]

One of the Beasty’s attempts takes them to a tall crater. B.O.T. follows. The Beasty lands beside the crater. Their lip trembles.

[Whimpering]

[Wailing]

B.O.T. is knocked back by the Beasty’s wailing. B.O.T. stumbles onto their wheels. The Beasty flies again.

[Grunting]

B.O.T. puts away the camera.

[Grunting]

B.O.T. catches the Beasty as they fall, and lifts the Beasty to the height of the tall crater.

[Beasty grunting]

The Beasty flaps their wings and their pinwheel spins. They fly above the crater.

The narrator says, FLYING.

[Panting]

The Beasty’s pinwheel stops spinning. The Beasty falls and gets stuck in the crater.

The narrator says, OH, NO!

The Beasty tries to wiggle out of the crater. They look up at the stars.

[Twinkling]

[Sighing sadly]

B.O.T. hops onto the Beasty.

[Whirring]

[Beasty wailing]

B.O.T. clings to the Beasty’s pinwheel. While trying to shake B.O.T. off, the Beasty spins B.O.T. with the pinwheel.

[Grunting]

With B.O.T., the Beasty breaks out of the crater and flies up to the stars.

[Exclaiming]

B.O.T. is flung off the Beasty’s pinwheel. B.O.T. points the camera at the now flying Beasty, who smiles. Hovering in the air, B.O.T. takes pictures of the Beasty.

[Camera flashing]

B.O.T. starts to fall.

[Beasty exclaiming]

B.O.T.’s nose turns green.

[Beeping]

The narrator says, PICTURE DATA, COLLECTED!

B.O.T. flies toward an opening in the sky.

[Whirring]

The Beasty smiles.

[Exclaiming]

The narrator says, ALL DATA COLLECTED FOR WONKY
FLYER.

High in the sky, the Beasty, the Wonky Flyer, joins other Wonky Fliers.

[All exclaiming happily]

The Wonky Fliers fly away together.

The narrator says, MISSION COMPLETE!

B.O.T. flies through the opening in the sky. The Wonky Fliers sly in a circle.

[Exclaiming]

[Cheerful music plays]

In she spaceship, a screen shows pictures of the Wonky Fliers.

End credits:
Narrated by Dylan Somanathan.
And Children from the School of Theatre Excellence Birmingham.

Music, Andrew McCrorie-Shand.

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

Producer Chris Wood.
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.