This article is a list of episodes for long-running children's television series The Sooty Show.
The Sooty Show (**Harry Corbett Years**)
BBC Era: 1955–1967
1955/1956: Series 1
Series titled Sooty until 1967.
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1956/1957: Series 2
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1957/1958: Series 3
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1958/1959: Series 4
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1959/1960: Series 5
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1960/1961: Series 6
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1961/1962: Series 7
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1962: Series 8
Series now on weekly.
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1963/1964: Series 9
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1964: Series 10
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1965: Series 11
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1965/1966: Series 12
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1966/1967: Series 13
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1967: Series 14
Series now being renamed The Sooty Show.
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Thames ITV Era: 1968–1981
1968: Series 1
All episodes for this series and the next four feature hostess Bonita Shaw, who later married dancer, choreographer, producer and music TV judge Nigel Lythgoe.
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1969: Series 2
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1970: Series 3
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1971: Series 5
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1971: Series 6
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1972: Series 7
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1972: Series 8
This series had Wally Whyton and Matthew Corbett on every edition
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1973: Series 9
Gerry Marsden and Matthew Corbett appear in every edition
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1973: Series 10
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1974: Series 11
Matthew Corbett from this series onwards appears on the show more regularly
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1974/1975: Series 12
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1975: Series 13
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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.
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1977: Series 2
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1978: Series 3
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1980: Series 4
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1981: Series 5
From this series onwards, all episodes were based in the Sooteries cottage, following a sitcom format.
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1981: Series 6
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Thames ITV (Children's ITV) Era: 1983–1992
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.
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1985: Series 9 Note: all the episodes from this series had a running time of 15 minutes and not the usual 20 minutes
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1985/1986: Series 10
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1987: Series 11 Note: the episodes from this series were back to the usual running time of 20 minutes
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1988: Series 12
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1988: Series 13
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1989: Series 14
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1990: Series 15
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1991: Series 16
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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.
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References Welcome to the BBC Genome Project Fremantle Archive Sales - The Sooty Show BFI.org Welcome to Sooty's House (this site had a lot of the ITV episodes archived, so info comes from the footage itself)