Sooty & Co. Sooty & Co. Sooty & Co. is a British children's television series that was produced for six series by Granada Television, that aired on ITV from 6 September 1993 to 14 December 1998. The series centres on Matthew Corbett, and puppets Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Little Cousin Scampi, as they try to run a bric a brac shop in Manchester. Matthew Corbett runs a shop in Manchester, with puppets Sooty (a yellow bear that can perform magic), Sweep (a squeaking dog), Soo (a female panda), and Little Cousin Scampi (another, if smaller, bear). Sooty and the gang are often getting
Sooty & Co. available to watch on the Classic Sooty Show YouTube Channel; in addition to this, several copies exist on unofficial YouTube channels. The show was initially shot on the same studio set as "Coronation Street", with a few of the sets being visible whenever Matthew and the gang would go outside. A notable episode featured Les and Toyah Battersby appearing on the episode from Series 6, 'Estate Agents', and they were very rude to Matthew. For later series' scenes, the shop frontage was filmed on Whittaker Lane, Prestwich. A particular controversial episode of the show was "Soo's Babies", where Soo pretended