Soo (puppet) Soo (puppet) Soo is a British glove puppet and TV character from the show Sooty and first appeared in 1964 as the girlfriend of Sooty. They still remain boyfriend and girlfriend today. In many episodes they kiss. Soo is a calm and collected female panda who acts as the foil for both Sooty and Sweep, and usually wears a red skirt. The original voice artist and puppeteer for Soo was Harry Corbett's wife, Marjorie Corbett, who voiced Soo until 1980. Brenda Longman took over in 1981 until 2001, when the then new owners of Sooty Hit Entertainment, overhauled the series
The Sooty Show The Sooty Show The Sooty Show is a British children's television series that aired on BBC Television from 1955 until 1967 when the BBC eventually cancelled "The Sooty Show" after Paul Fox, the then-controller of BBC One at the time, cleared out some of the long running shows. After it was cancelled by the BBC that year, "The Sooty Show" swiftly moved to ITV shortly after the launch of Thames Television in 1968, where the series remained until Thames lost its ITV franchise in 1992. It features the glove puppet characters Sooty, Sweep (who first appeared in 1957) and Soo