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A perennial
Created and presented by Harry Corbett, then by his son Matthew and now by Richard Cadell, the show revolves the adventures (and misadventures) of a group of glove puppets:
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* Mo (from [[Oop North|t'market]]), a regular customer during the Sooty & Co. incarnation, who always ending up selling Matthew something (sometimes conning him) rather than buying anything.
Sooty began as Harry Corbett's 'assistant' in his stage magic show in 1948 and soon became a hit in his own right. [[The BBC]] gave Sooty and Harry a slot among their nascent children's programming and the programme [[Long Runners|ran and ran and ran]]. Sooty was soon joined by Sweep, later Soo and finally Little Cousin Scampi. Over time, particularly after Matthew took over (having already appeared frequently during his father's tenure), it changed from 'just' a puppet show into a kind of surreal [[
From quite early on Sooty was a big franchise, spawning toys, books, musical instruments, stage shows, games, educational videos and, of course, copies of the puppets themselves.
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* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Sooty didn't just attack Harry and Matthew with a water pistol or a [[Pie in
* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: In one episode of ''Sooty and Co.'', Soo challenges the others to make something useful from random bits of wood in one minute. Sooty makes a 'matchbox holder', Sweep makes a 'bone holder', and Scampi makes a 'bone holder holder'.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Butch, the bulldog puppet introduced in the late 1960s, but axed in the 1990s.
* [[Cursed
* [[Executive Meddling]] by [[The BBC]] prompted Harry Corbett to take Sooty to [[ITV]].
* [[Hand Puppet]]
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* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: An in-universe example in ''Sooty and Co.'' -- Scampi tries to scare Sooty and Sweep out of their camper van in order to win a bet, but the other two find his efforts more laughable than scary. That is, until Scampi gets his Boom Box and plays an already creepy song very slowly and backwards, with spectacular results.
* [[Not This One, That One]]: In the first episode of the Nineties series ''Sooty and Co.'', Sooty and Sweep take delivery of their miniature campervan. Matthew is to get his own vehicle, and is overjoyed to find his own full-sized luxurious campervan...only to find it was actually the bicycle behind it.
* [[Pandaing to
* [[Pantomime]] - several Christmas episodes involved Sooty and the gang putting one on.
* [[Parental Bonus]]: Repeatedly. Prompted complaints from viewers in an episode when Soo pretended to be pregnant.
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** A late episode had a Buddha statue being nicknamed 'Buddhy Jolly' for its beatific expression.
** There really aren't many more children's TV series that take such advantage of the inevitable parental demographic in this way and others. Particularly in the '90s, where there were [[Special Guest]] appearances from people not likely to be commonly known amongst kids (such as comedians like Jack Dee, Paul Merton and Ronnie Corbett) and increasingly frequent [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] [[Aside Glance]] jokes from Matthew, such as this one when he was discussing his collection of cassette tapes:
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* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Sooty's magic words "Izzy Whizzy Let's Get Busy!" (it would be a [[Catch Phrase]], were it not for the fact that he doesn't speak)
* [[Remake Cameo]]: In the recent Sooty show with Richard Caddell, a certain Matthew Corbett reappears in one entire episode as a van driver {{spoiler|and chocolate thief}}. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshading ensues]], with Matthew passing on the torch...or pie-in-the-face rather, to Richard.
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