List of Sooty Show episodes explained
This article is a list of episodes for long-running children's television series The Sooty Show.
The Sooty Show (**Harry Corbett Years**)
1955/1956: Series 1
Series titled Sooty until 1967.
1956/1957: Series 2
1957/1958: Series 3
1958/1959: Series 4
1959/1960: Series 5
1960/1961: Series 6
1961/1962: Series 7
1962: Series 8
Series now on weekly.
1963/1964: Series 9
1964: Series 10
1965: Series 11
1965/1966: Series 12
1966/1967: Series 13
1967: Series 14
Series now being renamed The Sooty Show.
1968: Series 1
1969: Series 2
1970: Series 3
1970: Series 4
1971: Series 5
1971: Series 6
1972: Series 7
1972: Series 8
This series had Wally Whyton and Matthew Corbett on every edition
1973: Series 9
Gerry Marsden and Matthew Corbett appear in every edition
1973: Series 10
1974: Series 11
Matthew Corbett from this series onwards appears on the show more regularly
1974/1975: Series 12
1975: Series 13
The Sooty Show (**Matthew Corbett Years**)
1976: Series 1
With Matthew now at the helm, Harry Corbett still appears in segments for the next couple of series.
1977: Series 2
1980: Series 4
1981: Series 5
From this series onwards, all episodes were based in the Sooteries cottage, following a sitcom format.
1981: Series 6
1983: Series 7
(Note: these 1983 episodes were 10 minutes long and not the usual 20 mins)
1983/1984: Series 8
This series had a 20 episode run, the longest series of Sooty, Matthew Corbett era ever made.
1985: Series 9
Note: all the episodes from this series had a running time of 15 minutes and not the usual 20 minutes
1985/1986: Series 10
1987: Series 11
Note: the episodes from this series were back to the usual running time of 20 minutes
1988: Series 12
1988: Series 13
1989: Series 14
1990: Series 15
1991: Series 16
1992: Series 17
This was the final series of The Sooty Show as Thames Television lost its ITV franchise at the end of December 1992.
References
- http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110711040317/http://www.fremantlearchivesales.com/footage_details.aspx?ID=2871&FremantleSource=2
- BFI.org
- http://www.thesootyshow.org (this site has a lot of the ITV episodes archived, so info comes from the footage itself)
