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The Sooty Show Sweep Hand Puppet

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For most years from 1957 to 1998, there was a Sooty Annual; no annual was published in 1987, 1988, or 1990. The new arrangement retained some elements from the original format such as songs, while introducing narration in a number of scenes featuring the puppets only.

Alongside the transformation of The Sooty Show, Matthew branched out into stage shows featuring Sooty, bringing him closer to his audiences. This is going to be a memorable sale,” said Alastair McCrea, “but we are keeping a close eye on Sooty and Sweep to make sure they don’t try to take over the rostrum!

The Sooty Christmas Show (2011) – Garrick Theatre, London, and 2016–7 at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland. Sooty and Matthew Corbett appeared in a special episode of Thames Television's other mainstay of children's programming, Rainbow. The glove puppet gained a sufficient profile from television exposure that his likeness became a feature on charity collection boxes used by the Royal National Institute of Blind People in the late 1950s.

He was originally voiced by Bill Garrett, the company model and prop maker who used his own strong Yorkshire accent and made the original puppet. Sooty, Sweep and Soo were the guest judges on the fifth episode of the second series of The Matt Lucas Awards, a TV programme originally shown on BBC One on Tuesday, 9 April 2013. Although the format remained the same, the setting focused on misadventures within a holiday park that they helped to run, while scripts were focused on younger audiences. Sooty and Sweep had appeared as the Prime Minister and Home Secretary, respectively of the Puppet Government in The Goodies episode " The Goodies Rule – O.The move led to him expanding on the characters that featured in the programme, including: Butch, another dog who occasionally plays the part of a villain; Ramsbottom, a snake; and 'Enry the Robot, a robot with light up eyes who keeps breaking down. After leaving the show briefly in 1985, Mr Jago rejoined in 1993 and worked there until he retired in the early 2000s.

Now original puppets of Sooty, Sweep and Soo used in the TV shows and on stage will feature in Ewbank’s Entertainment Memorabilia auction on November 18.There is also the press reports which are critical of the conduct of the Metropolitan Police officers, although they are not individually named. From 2005 to 2008, annual shows, featuring the puppet characters and various different presenters, toured around the UK. Matthew Corbett was already an established TV actor by the 1970s with appearances on Doctor Who and the Children's ITV show Rainbow.

For the first half of the tours, Matthew and Connie Creighton would present, and during the second half, while Matthew was busy writing and filming the TV shows, Connie and Spencer K. Alongside his television work, Corbett also created travelling shows with Sooty and various works for charity, but the switch to ITV created a tighter schedule that increased his workload. Now those puppets and sundry other items from the show, including one of Sooty’s notorious water pistols, have been included in the sale at Ewbank’s. Cadell continued to keep Sooty in the public eye, making guest appearances with him, and at times the other characters, on other programmes.The Sooty show had a number of celebrities from all walks of life making appearances on the show, including Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain who is a self-confessed Sooty fan and always has the puppet as a mascot on the front of his drumkit, and has occasionally donned a full size Sooty costume at shows as an entrance. Being a clarinet player, he achieved the sound of Sweep's voice using the reed of said instrument, until one day it disintegrated during one of the shows. The second format, devised in the mid-1960s, expanded episodes to consist of a series of sketches involving Sooty and his friends, but with the inclusion of a studio, and a live audience of young children at each filming session.

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