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
Sooty past 20 years, but now it is time for him to stand on his own two feet. The plan is to use my 50th birthday in two years' time as a springboard to shoot Sooty to true international stardom." The deal included Corbett staying until 1998. Matthew Corbett retired in December 1998, bequeathing Sooty to then co-star Richard Cadell. Sooty came back to screens in 1999 at first under the name "Sooty Heights", which featured Richard, Liana Bridges (who worked in "Sooty & Co." in the same period he did) and the puppets all running the titular Sooty Heights hotel.