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 again featured Richard Cadell. The first, "Sooty in Space", was a reworking of one of Matthew Corbett's scripts, and toured the country throughout the year. On 20 June 2014 the "Radio Times" confirmed that "Sooty: The Movie" was in production. It is set to go in production in 2016. Wink Taylor, Alex Skerratt and Richard Cadell are writing the film. Matthew Corbett will appear in the movie, Cadell has confirmed. It is planned for release sometime in the near future. For most years from 1957 to 1998, there was a Sooty "Annual"; no annual was published in 1987, 1988, or