[Soft, futuristic music plays]

People shout, Bot!

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

[Spaceship whirring]

The people shout, Bot!

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

The people shout, Bot!

The robot wakes up and puts itself together. The robot stands on three wheels.

The people shout, BEASTY OBSERVATION TRANSMITTER!

The people read the title, BOT AND THE BEASTIES!

[Energetic music plays]

[Horn honking]

Multiple Beasties knock over the title.

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

A blue, teardrop-shaped Beasty slides across the ground as a puddle and hops up onto two feet. The Beasty looks around curiously.

A narrator asks, WHAT IS THIS
BEASTY?

The teardrop-shaped Beasty returns to its puddle state and slides away.

The narrator says, BOT, THIS IS YOUR MISSION!

Bot’s nose turns red.

[Bot whirring]

The narrator says, DETECT BEASTY.
COLLECT SOUND DATA.

Bot’s nose turns yellow, then orange.

The narrator says, COLLECT PICTURE DATA.

Bot’s nose turns green. An opening appears in the floor, and Bot hovers over it.

The narrator says, GO!

Bot‘s nose turns blue. Bot drops through the opening.

[Gentle music plays]

[Chirping]

Two suns shine brightly over a river running through a lush, colourful jungle.

The narrator says, JUNGLEY SPLASHY WORLD!

[Whirring]

Bot drops through an opening in the pink and purple pastel sky of Jungley Splashy World. Bot lands in the jungle and pops up onto three wheels.

[Squeaking]

Bot looks around.

[Bot beeping]

Bot’s nose turns red.

The narrator whispers, BEASTY DETECTED!

Bot looks up at a tree branch.

[Bot whirring]

The teardrop-shaped Beasty squeezes out of a crack in the branch.

[Squelching]

The Beasty hangs out of the crack. It sticks out its arms and legs and swings side to side.

[Beasty chittering]

The Beasty drops onto the ground and turns into a puddle.

[Splashing]

The narrator says, SPLASHING!

Bot watches the Beasty pop up onto its feet and dance.

[Happy music plays]

[Beasty chittering]

Bot aims its sound data collection speaker at the Beasty.

[Beasty yelping]

The Beasty turns into a puddle.

[Splashing]

Bot puts the speaker away and rolls over to the Beasty. As a puddle, the Beasty looks up at Bot.

[Beasty yelping]

The Beasty scurries away. Bot follows. The Beasty stops at a crack in the ground and pops onto its feet. In its teardrop shape, Beasty looks around.

[Beasty chittering]

[Happy music plays]

The Beasty smiles and starts to dance.

[Squeaking]

Bot rolls up to the Beasty.

[Beasty yelping]

The Beasty turns into a puddle.

[Splashing]

The narrator says, SPLASHING!

[Bot whirring]

Bot watches the Beasty slip into the crack in the ground. Bot peaks down the crack, and the Beasty pops out from another crack nearby. Bot peaks down the other crack. Bot rolls back and forth between the cracks as the Beasty pops in and out of them on its two feet.

[Beasty chittering]

The Beasty leaps out of the first crack and turns into a puddle. Bot follows the Beasty further through the jungle. In a clearing beside a row of three rocks, the Beasty pops up onto its feet and starts to dance.

[Happy music plays]

The Beasty glances to the left and quickly turns into a puddle.

[Splashing]

[Bot’s wheels squeaking]

As a puddle, the Beasty slides under the first rock. Bot rolls into the clearing.

[Whirring]

Bot looks at the first rock. The Beasty wiggles under the rock and knocks it onto Bot.

[Beasty yelping]

[Bot squeaking]

The narrator says, OH NO!

The Beasty hides under the second rock. Bot rolls up to the rock, and the Beasty knocks it onto Bot’s head.

[Beasty yelping]

Bot’s wheels tremble. Bot rolls the rocks off its head and looks down at the Beasty.

[Bot squeaking]

The Beasty knocks the last rock onto Bot.

[Beasty yelping]

[Bot whirring]

The Beasty slips away from Bot and deeper into the jungle. Bot rolls the rock off its head and follows.

[Bot squeaking]

In front of a large, hollow log, the Beasty pops up onto its feet.

[Chittering]

The Beasty looks around and starts to dance.

[Happy music plays]

The Beasty turns into a puddle.

The narrator says, SPLASHING!

The Beasty leaps across the ground.

[Splashing]

The Beasty stands on its feet and dances.

[Chittering]

Bot rolls up the Beasty with its speaker.

[Wheels squeaking]

Bot aims the speaker at the Beasty.

[Speaker feedback]

[Beasty chittering]

[Speaker beeping]

Bot plays back a recording.

[Beasty chittering]

The Beasty jumps in fright and turns into a puddle. Bot glances at the Beasty.

[Bot beeping]

Bot’s nose turns yellow and then orange.

The narrator says, SOUND DATA COLLECTED!

Bot watches the Beasty slip into the hollow log close by.

[Bot squeaking]

Bot follows the Beasty into the log and out the other end. The Beasty falls off a ledge.

[Bot beeping]

In its teardrop shape, the Beasty grins.

[Beasty cheering]

On the ground below, a group of teardrop-shaped Beasties create one big puddle while others dance around them.

[Beasties chittering]

The Beasties look up as the first teardrop-shaped Beasty falls toward them and gracefully dives into the puddle of Beasties.

[Splashing]

[Cheering]

All the Beasties gather into one puddle and look up.

[Beasties yelping]

Bot splashes into the puddle of Beasties.

[Splashing]

Each Beasty becomes a bubble. They float up through the trees and carry Bot with them.

[Beasties chittering]

The bubbles pop, and Bot falls.

[Popping]

[Bot squeaking]

The Beasties drip onto the ground and form a puddle. Bot splashes into the puddle.

[Splashing]

[Bot whirring]

Some of the Beasties pop up onto their feet and dance.

[Happy music plays]

[Beasties chittering]

Bot aims its picture data collection camera at the Beasties and starts taking pictures.

[Camera clicking]

The Beasties leap over Bot as Bot takes their picture.

[Beasties cheering]

[Bot beeping]

Bot’s nose turns green.

The narrator says, PICTURE DATA COLLECTED!

[Whirring]

An opening appears in the pastel sky. Bot rises from the puddle of teardrop-shaped Beasties. Like water in a fountain, the Beasties rise with Bot.

The narrator says, ALL DATA COLLECTED FOR...

Bot flies toward the opening in the sky, and the Beasties leap toward the ground.

[Beasties cheering]

The narrator says, DRIPPY SPLASHER!

[Bot whirring]

The narrator says, MISSION COMPLETE!

Bot flies through the opening in the sky. On the ground, the teardrop-shaped Beasties, the Drippy Splashers, dance.

[Happy music plays]

[Drippy Splashers chittering]

The Drippy Splashers jump and land as a puddle. They scurry away.

[Cheerful music plays]

In the spaceship, a screen shows pictures of Drippy Splashers.

End credits: Narrated by Esme Dugdale and Children from the School of Theatre Excellence Birmingham.
Music, Andrew McCrorie-Shand. Producer Chris Wood. Executive Producer for CBeebies, Sarah Legg-Barratt. Executive Producer Mark Hollingsworth. Created, Written and Directed by Anne Wood, Steven Roberts, Joel Stewart. Logos: A Ragdoll Production for B.B.C. CBeebies B.B.C. CAKE. Copyright Ragdoll Productions Ltd. 2021.