Sooty puppet's name. He would later be joined by other puppet glove characters, including Sweep (a dog who communicates by a saxophone reed type squeak), Soo (a shy and sweetly spoken panda), Kipper (a cat), Butch (another dog who occasionally plays the part of a villain), Ramsbottom (a snake), 'Enry the Robot, Cousin Scampi (another bear, who is Sooty's cousin), Miki (another cat - this time Brazilian) and Maggie Mouse. Like Sooty, Scampi appears to talk only in a very light whisper which can be heard only when someone puts their ear close to his mouth. Matthew Corbett, the son of
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