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The Sooty Show is the longest running children's television show in the world. This show follows a magical teddy bear called Sooty and his best friends, Sweep and Soo.
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- Television History
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The Sooty franchise is focused upon the adventures of Sooty, a glove puppet character created by magician and puppeteer Harry Corbett in the 1950s, alongside his other friends Sweep and Soo. Although mainly appearing in programmes for British children's television, Sooty also incorporates stage shows, both of which make use of a mixture of slapstic...
Harry Corbett era
After his initial performances with his puppet between 1952 and 1955, Harry Corbett introduced Sooty officially with his own programme, Sooty, the title was changed to The Sooty Show in 1967. The programme, run on BBC TV (later BBC1) between 1955 and 1967 and made as a replacement for Muffin the Mule, included a series of comedic sketches involving Sooty conducting simple tasks or ventures, which would sometimes go wrong and result in a mess that they would need to deal with. The show expande...
Matthew Corbett era
Following his father's retirement, Matthew Corbett took sole responsibility for the puppets on The Sooty Show, although he was forced to forgo his own programme as a direct result. Matthew maintained the programme's format until 1981 before making changes. These included discontinuing the use of an audience and comedic sketches, dropping a number of puppet characters – leaving only Sooty, Sweep and Soo as the main stars – and setting the show to a sitcom format set within a suburban home, in...
Richard Cadell era
Following his retirement, Matthew Corbett bequeathed his puppets to Richard Cadell, a fan of Sooty and a skilled magician, who produced a new Sooty programme for ITV titled Sooty Heights, which launched in 1999. Like its predecessor, the new programme stuck to the same format, but with episodes set within a beachside hotel that the characters ran, with Cadell joined by Liana Bridges – a co-star whom he worked with on a number of episodes in the final series of Sooty & Co. By the end of 1999,...
1984 – 1998
During Matthew Corbett's reign, seven stage shows were performed repetitively. For the first half of the tours, Matthew and Connie Creighton would present, and during the second half, while Matthew was busy writing and filming the TV shows, Connie and Spencer K. Gibbens would present. 1. Sooty's Creepy Castle(1984/1985 – 1991/1992) 2. Sooty's Picnic(1985/1986 – 1992/1993) 3. Sooty's World Cruise(1986/1987 – 1993/1994) 4. Sooty's Wild West Show(1987/1988 – 1994/1995) 5. Sooty in Space(1988/198...
1998 – 2004
After Matthew retired, six stage shows toured the country. All starred Richard Cadell; three of them also featured Richard's Sooty Heightsco-star, Liana Bridges, with the fourth starring Amanda Howard in Liana's place. 1. Sooty's Magical Mystery Tour(1998/1999) 2. Sooty's Treasure Hunt(1999/2000) 3. Sooty's Magic Farm(2000/2001) 4. The Magic and Mayhem Tour(2001/2002) 5. The Izzy Wizzy Tour(2002/2003) 6. The Comedy and Chaos Tour(2003/2004)
2005 – 2008
From 2005 to 2008, annual shows, featuring the puppet characters and various different presenters, toured around the UK. 1. The Wet and Wild Show(2005) 2. The Izzy Wizzy Holiday Show(2006) 3. Sooty's Magic Castle(2007) 4. Sooty's Magic Wand Factory(2008)
On 20 June 2014 the Radio Times confirmed that Sooty: The Movie was in production. It was set to go in production in 2016.[better source needed] Wink Taylor, Alex Skerratt and Richard Cadell are writing the film. Matthew Corbett will appear in the movie, Cadell has confirmed. It is planned for release sometime in the near future. In 2021 "Sooty and...
Books
For most years from 1957 to 1998, there was a Sooty Annual; no annual was published in 1987, 1988, or 1990. The early annuals were published by the London Daily Mirror. Later annuals were published by Purnell and Sons. The annuals feature an expanded cast of characters including: 1. Sooty, who is shown as white not yellow and wears red trousers. 2. Sweep, also white not grey, who walks on all fours like a normal dog, but can stand as a biped to play the bugle and so on. 3. Cokey the Clown, an...
Discography
In 1956, Philips Recordsreleased a 78 r.p.m. record P.B.528. It contains (side 1) "Sooty" (by Corbett) performed by Marie Benson and also featuring Harry Corbett and Sooty with instrumental accompaniment, and (side 2) "Mr Dumpling" (by Heathcote) performed by Marie Benson with instrumental accompaniment. In 1961 an album "Sooty Entertains" was released. It contains Sooty's Concert, Sooty The Chef, Danger - Animals At Work, Sooty's Theatre, Double-Cross Quiz, The Music Lesson, Sooty's Music Fe...
Sooty and Sweep had appeared on a Rubber News sketch with Alastair Burnet on a Series 2 episode of Spitting Image.The Sooty show had a number of celebrities from all walks of life making appearances on the show, including Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain who is a self-confessed Sooty fan and always has the pu...Sooty and Sweep had appeared as the Prime Minister and Home Secretary, respectively of the Puppet Government in The Goodies episode "The Goodies Rule – O.K.?". Sooand Kipper the Cat also made cameo...A number of famous faces made cameo appearances – usually as themselves – in Sooty and Co, including Gareth Hunt, Matthew Kelly, William Roache, Jack Dee, Paul Merton, Shane Ritchie, Frank Bruno, J...The Sooty Show. 174,068 likes · 1,686 talking about this. Sooty, Sweep and Soo's official Facebook page with over 170,000 likes. Join us!
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The Sooty Show is a British children's television series, created by Harry Corbett, and produced for the BBC from 1955 to 1967, and then for ITV from 1968 until 1992. The show, part of the Sooty franchise, focuses on the mischievous adventures of the glove puppet character of the same name, alongside his friends Sweep and Soo , and their handler.
It's the day of the Annual Go-kart Race at Slater's Holiday Park. Sooty enters with his campervan, but can he beat cheating competitor Fred Firewheel?
