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 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