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
Soo (puppet) and Sheila Clark became the voice of Soo in "Sooty" from 2001 - 2004. Brenda Longman was brought back to voice Soo in 2007 onwards when Soo appeared on "The Weakest Link" and the latest "Sooty" show from 2011 until 2013. In 1991 Soo along with many other puppets appeared in the 1991 Comic Relief music video "Helping Hand" In December 2007 Soo appeared on, and won, a puppet special of "The Weakest Link" hosted by Anne Robinson which was originally broadcast on 28 December 2007 at 6pm on BBC One, and was the strongest link statistically five times in