Sooty & Co.
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1993 - 1998
- 90 episodes (6 series)
Childrens' comedy series starring Matthew Corbett and the loveable puppets running a shop.
Press clippings
The surprisingly turbulent history of Sooty
Flying pizza, a fake pregnancy and other tales from the world's longest-running kids' TV show.
Douglas McPherson, The Telegraph, 11th May 2022Original Sooty puppet sells for £14,500
An original Sooty puppet from the 1950s has sold for a record price at auction - despite it being "messed up".
The Daily Express, 4th September 2018Sooty at 70: Magic, water pistols & enduring popularity
When Harry Corbett bought a bear glove puppet on Blackpool's North Pier in 1948 to entertain his children, he could surely not have realised he was teaming up with a future TV icon.
Chris Long, BBC, 21st July 2018Nobody embodies the maxim that silence is golden better than Sooty Never speaking, he exudes a permanent air of wisdom, yet the programme's real genius is Sweep, whose squeaker is operated with extraordinary skill, holding near perfect pitch during the songs and producing such a range of inflections on a single basic sound that it can intimate anything from irony to bathos.
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 24th September 1996