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This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. On Tuesday April 9th, 2013, Sooty and Sweep and Soo appeared as the judging panel in one episode of "The Matt Lucas Awards" Season 2. Television history [ edit ] Harry Corbett era [ edit ] Sweep made his debut in 1957 and has remained a part of the franchise since his first appearance. Sooty appeared on Kellogg's "Puffa Sugar Stars" cereal in the 1960s, then on "Puffa Puffa Rice" cereal starting in 1973. After the show, we always do a meet and greet, which is a very important part of it. And there are so many elderly people that come without kids because they want to relive a bit of their nostalgic youth. And that’s why we deliver the same show that they hoped [for], we don’t change anything, it’s the same format.

There's no water at the Park! It is down to plumbers Sooty and Sweep to put things right. 17. Down the Drain As a magician, Cadell brings large-scale illusions to Sooty’s stage show, including a flying car in which an audience member can take flight with Sooty. “I think the audience come expecting to see a preschool kids show and come away with a little bit more than they expected,” he says.In the early to mid 1960s, there were at least five Sooty annuals published by the London Daily Mirror. These feature an expanded cast of characters including: For most years from 1957 to 1998, there was a Sooty Annual; no annual was published in 1987, 1988, or 1990. [19] The early annuals were published by the London Daily Mirror. Later annuals were published by Purnell and Sons.

Edgecliffe-Johnson, Andrew (4 October 2007). "Hit Entertainment says 'bye-bye' to Sooty show". Financial Times. Goldman, Laurence (1996). "What's that you said Sooty? Puppets, parlance and pretence" (PDF). Academia.edu. p.3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2021 . Retrieved 6 September 2021. However the majority, but interestingly not all, of Sweep's squeaks are subject to a similar 'translation' on the part of Corbett and Soo.Sweep's family first appeared on the Sooty Show in an episode called "Sweep's Family". He has a mother and father; a twin brother, Swoop; two cousins, Swipe and Swap [8] and another seven brothers in the litter (all of whom look exactly like him, and wear different coloured collars to tell each other apart). Celebrity fans include Bee Gee Barry Gibb, who took a Sooty mascot onstage at a Royal Variety Performance, while George Harrison summed up Sooty’s appeal to grown-ups in his foreword to Geoff Tibballs’ book, The Secret Life of Sooty: “Sooty symbolises the speed at which I wish the world was still turning.” Lee said: “I have pictures of him with Ernie Wise, Tom O’Connor, Des O’Connor and Frankie Vaughan among other celebrities, but not, unfortunately, Harry or Matthew Corbett.” In 1956, Philips Records released 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. The gang are opening a souvenir pottery stall at the park - but the pottery gets smashed. 7. The Souvenir Stall

Richard takes the Children's Club on a camping trip and Sooty and Sweep sneak along too. 15. The Great Outdoors Since then, he has performed in (and on) the capable hands of Harry, who passed on the family business to son Matthew Corbett, and now Richard Caddell, who has been ‘Sooty’s friend’ since 1998.Swipe and Swap are described as Sweep's brothers in the Sooty & Co. episode "Sweep's Family" and the Sooty Heights episode "The Hounds of Music". After Matthew retired, six stage shows toured the country. All starring Richard Cadell, three of them also featured Richard's Sooty Heights co-star, Liana Bridges, with the fourth starring Amanda Howard in Liana's place. Cadell made his first appearance on The Sooty Show as a 15-year-old guest performer when he was named Young Magician of the Year by the Magic Circle. He forged lifelong friendships with the team and when Matthew, who is now 74, hung up his gloves in 1999, he suggested Cadell as his replacement. Sweep is a British puppet and television character popular in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and other countries.