Children shout, BOT!

[Gentle futuristic music plays, whirring]

A grey spaceship flies past stars in space. It has a red, yellow and green light on top.

Children shout, BOT! BOT!

[Slide whistle, clanking]

A silver robot with a blue circle between its eyes assembles in the spaceship. The robot moves on three wheels. Green text above the robot reads, “B.O.T.”

Children shout, BEASTIE OBSERVATION TRANSMITTER! BOT AND THE BEASTIES!

Text reads, “B.O.T. and the Beasties.” Beasties run and knock the text over.

[Horns blare, boinging, energetic music plays]

Children shout, BEASTIES COME! AND BEASTIES GO! BEASTIES, BEASTIES! BEASTIES, BEASTIES! OH NO!

A yellow peanut-shaped beastie with two eyestalks poses.

[Chattering]

A narrator asks, WHAT IS THIS BEASTY?

[Chattering, party horn blares]

The narrator says, BOT, THIS IS YOUR MISSION. DETECT BEASTIES.

[Whirring, clicking]

The narrator says, COLLECT SOUND DATA. COLLECT PICTURE DATA. GO!

A round door opens on the floor of the spaceship, and Bot drops down.

On the rocky surface of a world, lights glow through holes. The lights fade.

The narrator says, SPACEY, GLOWY WORLD.

Bot lands on the surface of the world.

[Beeping, whirring, clattering, tense music plays]

Bot looks at a hole in the ground.

[Timid straining]

The circle on Bot’s face turns red.

[Alarm beeping]

The narrator says, BEASTIE DETECTED.

A yellow beastie slowly squeezes through the hole to the surface.

[Squelching]

The narrator says, SQUEEZING. SQUEEZING...

[Straining, tense music plays]

The beastie’s two eyestalks pop out of the hole.

[Popping]

[Beastie straining, Bot whirring]

Bot rolls the beastie. The beastie looks at Bot and squeezes back into the hole.

[Squeaking, straining, popping, Bot whirring]

The beastie pops their head out of a different hole, and Bot rolls over to it. The beastie retreats into the hole.

[Squeaking, straining, popping, Bot whirring]

Bot extends a microphone over the beastie. The beastie squeezes their head through a different hole.

[Squeaking, straining, popping, grunting]

The narrator says, SQUEEZING!

The beastie sees the microphone and squeezes back into the hole.

[Grunting, straining, squelching]

Bot puts the microphone by its head and listens to the replay.

[Beastie straining and grunting replays]

Bot startles and lands in a hole. The circle on Bot’s face flashes yellow.

[Clanking, alarm beeping]

The narrator says, SOUND DATA COLLECTED.

Bot shakes in the hole.

[Whirring, creaking, tense music plays]

The beastie pushes Bot up out of the hole. Bot flies up in the air and bounces off the beastie’s head. Bot falls headfirst into a hole.

[Slide whistle, straining, boinging, clattering]

The beastie slides back into their hole.

[Grunting]

Bot shakes in the hole. Bot extends its legs into a hole beside it. Bot follows its legs into the second hole and lands in a tunnel. Circles of light shine through the holes in the surface above.

[Whirring, popping, dramatic music plays]

Bot looks left and right and then rolls to its left.

[Wheels squeaking]

The beastie walks in the tunnel and stops beside Bot. The beastie jumps and sticks their head into a hole.

[Happy chattering, boing]

The narrator says, OH, NO!

The beastie’s four legs wiggle in the tunnel.

[Grunting, straining]

The narrator says, SQUEEZING!

Bot rolls beneath the beastie, extends its legs and pushes the beastie up through the hole. Bot flies up through the hole and lands on the surface.

[Straining, whirring, popping, whirring]

The beastie falls into a hole, sticking their head out at the surface.

[Whistling, squelching]

The narrator says, OH, NO, NO, NO, NO!

Bot steps on the beastie’s head. Bot leans and falls headfirst on another hole. Bot’s extended legs pull the beastie out of the hole.

[Squelching, grunting, whirring, upbeat music plays, slide whistles, thunking, chattering, squelching]

The beastie flies through the air.

[Narrator gasping]

Bot extends its legs and stands on the surface.

[Whirring, popping]

The beastie bounces across the surface. Bot rolls behind it.

[Upbeat music plays, chattering, wheels squeaking, whirring]

Bot rolls to a hole and braces its legs around the edges.

[Slide whistle]

The beastie lands on Bot’s head. Bot carefully moves off the hole and carries the beastie on its head.

[Boinging, grunting, whirring, clattering, upbeat music plays]

Bot sways and rolls sideways.

[Yelping, slide whistles, clattering, wheels squeaking]

Pink, yellow, and blue lights glow inside a large hole.

[Chiming, happy chattering]

The beastie bounces happily on Bot’s head.

[Gasping, chattering, boinging]

The beastie bounces off of Bot’s head and runs to the hole.

[Happy chattering]

Bot rolls behind the beastie and takes photographs.

[Camera shutter snapping, wheels squeaking, happy music plays]

The beastie flips into the large hole.

[Happy chattering, slide whistle]

Bot stands at the edge of the hole and then jumps in.

[Whirring, happy chattering]

Many beasties slowly squeeze through the large hole together. They pop their heads out of the hole and smile.

[Straining, tense music plays, squelching]

The beasties bounce their heads up and down. Bot squeeze up in the middle of the beasties and looks at them.

[Happy music plays, happy chattering, squelching, whirring, clanking]

Bot extends the camera and takes photographs of the beasties. They blink as the camera flashes.

[Camera shutter snapping, yelping]

The narrator says, PICTURE DATA COLLECTED!

Bot’s circle glows green.

[Beeping, whirring]

The narrator says, ALL DATA COLLECTED FOR…SPACEY SQUEEZER!

Bot flies up towards the spaceship.

[Beeping, whirring, squelching, futuristic music plays]

The narrator says, MISSION COMPLETE!

All the beasties squeeze out of the hole and land on the surface.

[Happy chattering, squelching, cheering, popping, cheerful music plays]

They run away from the hole.

[Skittering, chattering]

[Upbeat music plays, whirring, chattering, boings, slide whistles]

End Credits. Narrated by Kieran Lilley 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.

Logos: A Ragdoll Production for B.B.C. C-Beebies B.B.C. CAKE.

Copyright Ragdoll Productions Limited. Twenty twenty-one.