Sooty (television series)

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Sooty, sometimes referred to as The Sooty Show, is the name of the television series that began in 2001 and ended in 2004 on CITV. It was presented by Richard Cadell and Vicki Lee Taylor.

It followed a similar format to Sooty Heights where Sooty and the gang run a hotel.

In the later seasons of this series, the puppets were given a makeover, Soo's voice was no longer provided by Brenda Longman and the original puppeteers such as Brian Sandford left. But since then, they have reverted back to the original puppet styles and Brenda and Brian have reprised their roles as Soo and Sweep, respectively.

In an interview with the Daily Mail in 2012, Richard said that HiT Entertainment made the show bland and that he tried to persuade the producers to go back to the roots of the show. He also said that in the later series, they wanted to get rid of the humans all together.

Characters

Trivia

Vicki sometimes refers to Richard as "Uncle Richard".
Series 3 was pulled off the air by CITV, due to the awful state that the show was in which made the ratings not good enough.^{[citation needed]}
The only episodes of this show to be put onto DVD were "Sooty's Magic Garden" (on "Magical Children's Favourites"), Sooty's Baby", "Double Trouble", "Flying Fun" and "Treasure Hunt", (on two DVDs packed with the Daily Mirror), likely due to how unpopular they were compared to the episodes from the first series.
Scampi became a smaller role character in this TV Series as there were more episodes concentrating on Sooty, Sweep, Soo, Butch and Miki.
It is currently unknown what happened to Liana after Sooty Heights ended in 2000.
This show marks Sooty's last TV show before his break between 2005-2007 until his pilot episode: The Big Day Out, was made in 2008 for the 2011 series 7 years later. However he and Sweep did appear in between during Peter Kay's 'This is the way to Amarillo' video in 2005.
This TV show marks Brenda Longman and Brian Sandford's last role after Series 1 ended until they returned to work on Sooty in 2007.
This TV show marks Butch's first and only main character role since he only got small roles in The Sooty Show, Sooty & Co, Sooty Heights and Sooty (2011).

Episodes

Series 1: 2001

All New Sooty - 5th November 2001
A New Arrival - 6th November 2001
Sci-Fi Sooty - 7th November 2001
It's My Party - 8th November 2001
Sweep Asleep - 9th November 2001
Sad, Sad Sooty - 12th November 2001
It's A Dog's Life - 13th November 2001
Practice Makes Perfect - 14th November 2001
The Night of a Thousand Bears - 15th November 2001
You Don't Scare Me - 16th November 2001
A Cat and Dog Thing - 19th November 2001
Favourite Things - 20th November 2001
Santa's Back - 21st November 2001

Series 2: 2002

Robo Richard - 15th October 2002
The Mysterious Visitor - 22nd October 2002
Sooty's Pet - 29th October 2002
Superheroes- 5th November 2002
Sooty in Charge - 12th November 2002
Sooty's Magic Garden - 19th November 2002
The New Gang - 26th November 2002
The Little Big People - 3rd December 2002
Digging For Dinosaurs - 10th December 2002
Best Friends - 17th December 2002

Series 3: 2003-2004

Sooty's Baby - 27th October 2003
Double Trouble - 28th October 2003
Flying Fun - 29th October 2003
Sooty at the Seaside - 30th October 2003
Treasure Hunt - 31st October 2003
Water, Water Everywhere - 7th November 2003
Sooty's Ghost - 14th November 2003
Let's Get Camping - 21st November 2003
Sooty The Scientist - 28th November 2003
Keep Fit Sooty - 6th January 2004

Gallery

Goofs

As Vicki is Richard's niece, why didn't he mention her in Sooty Heights?
In the previous series, Sooty Heights was a seaside hotel, this series was the same hotel but did not have a seaside anymore?
Even though it is meant to be the same hotel, numerous stuff has changed. The office is now a living room and the room next to the reception is bigger.