The Sooty Show

The Sooty Show

1955

★★★☆☆ 6.0/10

📺 42 Seasons

🎬 604 Episodes

📅 Ended

🌐 EN

⏱️ 15 min/episode

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The Sooty Show is a British children's Puppet series which aired on the BBC from 1955 to 1967 and ITV from 1968 to 1992. It follows the adventures and comedic day to day life of puppets Sooty, Sweep and Soo with their owner Harry Corbett, and in later years, his son Matthew.

Seasons

Season 1

1955 • 36 Episodes

Season 2

1956 • 19 Episodes

Harry Corbett brings 'Sooty' back again with another grand Variety show.

Season 3

1957 • 19 Episodes

Season 4

1958 • 17 Episodes

Season 5

1959 • 19 Episodes

Season 6

1960 • 18 Episodes

Season 7

1961 • 12 Episodes

Sooty and Sweep show their holiday films.

Season 8

1962 • 8 Episodes

Season 9

1963 • 21 Episodes

Season 10

1964 • 12 Episodes

Season 11

1965 • 13 Episodes

Soo is mentioned for the first time in the RadioTimes.

Season 12

1966 • 13 Episodes

Season 13

1967 • 13 Episodes

Season 14

1968 • 14 Episodes

The Sooty Show now moves to ITV.

Season 15

1969 • 14 Episodes

Season 16

1970 • 14 Episodes

Season 17

1970 • 18 Episodes

Season 18

1971 • 13 Episodes

Season 19

1971 • 13 Episodes

Season 20

1972 • 11 Episodes

Season 21

1972 • 13 Episodes

Season 22

1973 • 13 Episodes

Season 23

1974 • 13 Episodes

Season 24

1974 • 14 Episodes

Season 25

1975 • 14 Episodes

Season 26

1976 • 13 Episodes

Season 27

1977 • 13 Episodes

Matthew Corbett now takes over the bulk of the work on the show. Harry Corbett has a segment in each episode where he remembers classic moments.

Season 28

1978 • 13 Episodes

Season 29

1980 • 9 Episodes

Each episode of this season has part of a serialized adventure story shown around the midway point, 'The Case of the Black Hand' stars Sooty as Sherlock Holmes tracking down 'The Master criminal'. This is the last Season to have the "filmed on a stage in front of a studio audience" format. From this point on the show becomes sitcom like with the episodes set at 'Sooteries cottage'.

Season 30

1981 • 7 Episodes

Season 31

1981 • 13 Episodes

Season 32

1983 • 13 Episodes

Season 33

1983 • 20 Episodes

Sweep gets Bonnie Langford to teach him how to be a ballet dancer.

Season 34

1985 • 14 Episodes

Season 35

1986 • 13 Episodes

Season 36

1987 • 13 Episodes

Season 37

1988 • 13 Episodes

Season 38

1988 • 14 Episodes

Season 39

1989 • 13 Episodes

When Sweep's nose suddenly starts honking and his ears start ringing, he ventures out with Matthew to discover how many other people this strange phenomenon has effected.

Season 40

1990 • 13 Episodes

Season 41

1991 • 13 Episodes

Season 42

1992 • 13 Episodes

Cast

Matthew Corbett

Matthew Corbett

Brenda Longman

Network

BBC One, ITV1, BBC Television

Production

Thames Television, BBC

Keywords

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