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 messy items such as shaving foam and paint. Matthew and subsequently Richard have carried on Harry's tradition of ending every show with the line "Bye bye everybody, bye bye", and in Matthew's last ever episode, his final scene was a collection of clips of him saying the immortal words over the preceding years. The Sooty Show was aired on the BBC from 1955 until 1967 when it was cancelled by the BBC and was then signed up to Thames Television where it aired on ITV from then until 1992. In 1957, Sooty was joined by Sweep, and in 1964, Soo