List of Sooty Show episodes

Sooty is outside in the garden training as he is about to take part in a boxing match against Butch, who is the current champion. Matthew explains that Sooty has been training every morning while Sweep and Soo have been asleep and assures Soo that Sooty is in great shape! Matthew has made Sooty a huge breakfast, but before he can eat it, Butch arrives boasting that he is going easily beat Sooty.

Matthew enters Sooty, Sweep and Soo's bedroom to wake them up and notices how untidy it is! Matthew tells them that he wants the bedroom tidied up before they come downstairs for breakfast. Sweep's idea of tidying is throwing his bones on the floor, while Soo can't decide where to put her clothes and decides to put them away later. Sooty decides to put his stuff on Sweep's bed, which Sweep later moves back.

Matthew doesn't have a very good start to the day as he trips on a toy car belonging to Sooty and Sweep. He is telling Sooty, Sweep and Soo about all the dangers in the house. But, Matthew has many accidents and ends up being run over by a bike.

Matthew, Sooty, Sweep and Soo have a special guest coming round to visit them, so Matthew and Sooty choose to bake a cake, but Sweep puts his bone in it!
Connie is the special guest and Sweep makes a banner for her but doesn't spell it right! Connie has a few accidents when she’s there, but all is forgiven. Connie gives out gifts to them, Sooty gets a book Sweep gets a bone Soo gets a pink dress and Matthew gets flowers.

The food at Sooty's house has gone missing. Sherlock Sooty visits Matthew and blames him for pinching the food. Matthew believes it was the window cleaner pinching it.
But in the end it has been an important person sleepwalking, but whom? Sweep turns out to be the culprit. It turns out he has been sleepwalking during the night.

A new series of adventures with Sooty and the gang. Sweep wants to become a ballet dancer and is helped with his ambition by Sooty and Soo. Matthew decides he can be as good as Sweep, but meets his downfall when his teacher turns out to be Bonnie Langford.

Matthew gets a camcorder to record the daily activities of Sooty, Sweep and Soo, but trouble begins when they object to having their private lives made public. Also, Steve Steen and Jim Sweeney star in the video adventure story, Travels in Teddington.

When the local paper runs a competition to find the strongest man, Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Matthew decide to enter. They use some body building machines to build up their strength and muscles. Then Geoff Capes, the strongest man in Britain arrives on the scene.

Sooty, Sweep and Soo all have their own favourite pets. Sooty likes performing fleas, the other a guinea pig. Matthew discovers he doesn't care for either when the animals drive him out of the house. But he calms down when Percy Edwards introduces him to some other interesting animals.

Sooty, Sweep and Soo are mad about football, and Matthew is mad with them because they play the game inside the house. He gets Mark Chamberlain, a top professional footballer, to play with them on a local pitch. Matthew thinks he's a good goalie, but Mark and Sooty soon show him otherwise.

Soo's going to a party, but the rest of the gang are a bit jealous and are hindering her when she tries to get ready. But all's well when she brings home Ray Allen and Lord Charles.

Matthew, Sooty, Sweep and Soo are having trouble with the plumbing, but they get some help from swimmer Duncan Goodhew. It's early morning in Sooty's house and Sooty, Sweep and Soo have slept in Matthew's bed. Sooty, Sweep and Soo wake up to hear Matthew talking in his sleep. When Matthew asks for the tin opener Sooty hands it to him!

Sooty, Sweep and Soo give Matthew breakfast in bed for Father's day. They take him on a picnic in the garden. Later Matthew's father Harry Corbett comes to see him. He has come around to the house, to show the gang the new house he's made for Sooty, Sweep and Soo.

Sooty and Sweep have colds and are feeling sorry for themselves. In searching for a cure in Sooty's Grandad's magic cold cure book they meet Paul Goddard the clown. When Soo catches the cold, the gang decide to go to bed with a hot drink and a story from Matthew.

Sooty, Sweep and Soo decide to have a bring-and-buy sale in their garden in aid of their Cub and Brownie pack, and Ted Moult arrives to help them.

Sooty, Sweep and Soo have become artists, but like all beginners they seem to get more on themselves than on their canvasses. By the end of the day, Matthew wishes they would do anything else but paint. Then Connie Creighton arrives on the scene and shows them how it should be done.

Sweep has a fall and loses his memory, but when Sweep gets a lot of special attention, Sooty and Soo decide to take a 'fall' and lose their memory to get attention from Matthew. Matthew ends up following a trail of sweets to find Sooty, but in the end he ends up back in the Sootymobile. In the end Matthew finds out that they were doing it for attention.

The Sooty gang have become CB radio enthusiasts and they confuse Matthew when they talk in CB jargon. When a dog gets involved more problems are caused and this leads Sooty, Sweep and Soo to a musical encounter with Dave Lee Travis.

Matthew is fed up with Sooty, Sweep and Soo - their imaginary pets are causing chaos in the house. He dresses up as a monkey to get his own back, but they turn the tables on him when Johnny Morris comes to interview a 'talking monkey'.

In the first of a new series to bring in the New Year for younger viewers, Soo, Sweep and Sooty play hunt the thimble. This gives them the idea to play hunt whatever you can think of, which causes Matthew endless trouble and also upsets Windsor Davies, as the gang hunt for treasure on his allotment.

Matthew sees himself as the 'fixer' of all time and invites impressionist Johnny More to help him 'fix it' for the gang.

Superdog Sweep takes on strongman Geoff Capes, and then has to rescue some children from a runaway truck. Sooty, Sweep and Soo are fast asleep in bed, with each of them dreaming. Both Sooty and Soo dream about being conductors, while Sweep dreams that he is a superhero, by the name of Superdog! At breakfast Matthew explains that the world's strongest man, special guest, Geoff Capes is giving a demonstration of his strength later on that day.

There's magic in the air. Sooty gets busy with Izzy Wizzy and, before she knows where she is, Matthew's Auntie is transported from outside the railway station into Sooty's kitchen. Sooty also gives her, Matthew, Sweep and Soo lessons in magic - with unexpected results.

Sweep is showing off trying to prove he is clever too. Matthew goes looking for Sweep and finds an impressionist out training her dog.

Sooty, Sweep and Soo like automation - automatic washing-up machines, automatic feeder and breakfast cooker. But when Bernie Clifton arrives from an automation company things get out of hand - until the Sooty gang come to the rescue with a super piece of automation.

Matthew is up bright and early, explaining that this is the only time he can get some peace from the 'terrible three'! He switches the radio on, which reminds him that Sweep had entered a song contest, sending a tape off of his own song! Matthew explains how awful Sweeps song is and that it's quite embarrassing that he entered! Matthew decides to play his Alvin Stardust tape, but the tape is missing and in its place he finds a sausage!

It's Christmas and Sooty and Matthew visit children at the hospital. And then they all go to a show... and then to a big party with many children. The gang have a really busy Christmas Day opening their presents and helping their friend Bernie with his Christmas Show.

Sweep has singing lessons for his new career in Sooty's latest Singing Sootograms venture. Matthew and Soo help by making birthday cakes with plenty of cream in them, and guest Spike Milligan is at the receiving end of all this wild activity.

Sweep is having bad luck. They go to a field to play fisbee so that nothing can go wrong but it does. Then he sneezes and knocks over Sooty's New Field.

Matthew, Sooty, Sweep and Soo make a Time Capsule, but have trouble finding a place to bury it. They think it would be a good idea to make 1 so that in a hundred years time people will know how they lived in the 1980s.

Matthew is into Yoga. He tries to do some of the balancing exercises that the book suggests but he gets no help from his friends, Sooty, Sweep and Soo. He tries to show them how good they are by taking them to the local gym, but by the time they are finished with him he is well off balance. To cheer him up they bring in Paul Goddard on his unicycle.

Matthew owes the bank £5 but he has not got it when the bank decides to collect, Soo deposits the money she, Sweep and Sooty have gathered together, when Mr Wolfe from the bank arrives, strange things happen concerning the cash.

Sooty, Sweep and Soo want to open their house as a stately home, so they go to a real stately home for some tips. They take a tour with someone at the stately home and have trouble with a cannon. They decide to invite a few people to come round to their house, but when they mean a few then actually mean 10000 people. Matthew thinks it's a crazy idea, but then when he thinks of all the money they could make he agrees. Sweep thinks he's found Henry VIII's bath water and Matthew ends up drinking it.

Matthew and Sooty are up to their male chauvinist tricks again - but they reckon without the tenacity of Connie and Soo who decide to fight back. Things get rather heated when all of them try to do each other's jobs, and the problem is not helped by a little dog who stirs up trouble.

Soo reads a book about throwing your voice. Matthew gets a ventriloquist dummy, but he runs away, so they go to the school to find him. Sooty, Sweep and Soo upset Eli the Ventriloquist Dummy who runs off.

Matthew decides to try and catch moths, but as usual Sooty, Sweep and Soo thwart his attempts! Poor Matthew gets a little wet during his hunt! A blue bottle fly is annoying Sooty and Matthew. Spider-Man comes to rescue them from the fly. And they go to catch moths, including the water bear.

After seeing in their school reports that Sooty, Sweep and Soo have all done poorly in nature studies. Matthew takes them out to the countryside so they can see all the interesting insects and learn to appreciate them.

Sooty dreams about horoscopes and stars. Aunty Gertrude looks at a star chart, but there are some stars missing so they go to Sooty's Space Centre to find them. Once they're there, they have to find the missing stars, but Soo ends up going in a rocket, but she lands home safely in the end. Then Sooty wakes up from his dream.

Matthew and Sooty skiing. Sooty breaks the downhill speed record, and Matthew thinks he can do better. So Matthew breaks everything and needs to be seen by a doctor.

Sooty, Sweep and Soo are walking through the park, on their way to the police station to hand in the scarf Soo had found.

Connie comes over to teach Soo tap dancing. Matthew says he was a great tap dancer, so Sweep looks in the loft for Matthew's old tap shoes. But Sweep and Matthew fall through the ceiling.

Soo goes overboard with her perfume, so Matthew teaches them about how sensitive their noses are, but it turns out Sweep's isn't very sensitive. Then Matthew gets made up by a door to door make-up sales lady.

It's Sweeps birthday and since they can't afford to go out to a restaurant they decide to open their own. After rolling down the hill in a shopping trolley they open the restaurant. Matthew the chef doesn't know how to make the food their first customer orders.

Matthew tries computer dating - with Sooty's encouragement.

Matthew is reading Sooty, Sweep and Soo a story about Aladdin and his magic lamp. They would like to grant Matthew's wishes and so they haven't help him clear out the loft. They find a magic lamp in the attic and it has a genie inside.

Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Matthew all experience much good luck and bad luck - Soo finds £5 after seeing two magpies together, whilst poor Matthew ends up spilling tea all over himself, and things begin falling over in his bedroom after he leaves his shoes on the table! Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Matthew are being very superstitious today.

Matthew has been reading all about Superman in a comic, and at the same time as this, Sweep has begun displaying unusual feats of strength. Little do they realize that Sweep is really the heroic Superdog, an alien dog from a dying planet who plummeted to Earth, but was unfortunately followed by an evil enemy dog, none other than Butch!

Sooty, Sweep and Soo are making things. But, Matthew is none too pleased because they have unraveled many toilet rolls and cut out the full washing-up liquid bottle. Matthew tells them they are meant to use them when they are empty. They decide to make things, and later on they get a special visit from a special paper teaser.

Matthew and Sweep wants to tell jokes but there is a slight problem as Sweep doesn't know any jokes, so Matthew tries to help Sweep. In the end Soo doesn't want to sing, and Sooty and Sweep decide to play the drums. They all want to enter a local talent contest.

Matthew, Sooty, Sweep and Soo look for their ancestors. Sooty goes to a honey farm, Sweep to a butcher and Soo to a Chinese restaurant.

Matthew is going on about the luxuries in life, and how he could do without them like he did 'When He Was A Lad'. Matthew tells them he will go out and have a better day than Sooty, Sweep and Soo going out with Connie to Chessington World of Adventures. They are in their bedroom, where Sooty is playing a trick on Soo by taking her teddy bear, Bruno.

Matthew has had an uncomfortable night's sleep, having slept on the living room floor because he is having his bedroom done up by Connie. Things get worse when a bag of rubbish falls on him, waking him up.

Sooty and Sweep play a game of skittles, but they wake up Soo. Soo isn't happy about them playing ball games inside the house so she goes and tells Matthew, but he is playing ball games as well. Matthew decides to confiscate all the balls. Matthew talks about bowling being his favourite ball game. Soo isn't impressed and goes to complain to Matthew. When Soo arrives in Matthew's bedroom, Matthew is explaining how he loves ball games, while Soo is moaning about Sooty and Sweep. Matthew is playing with a ball and tennis racket, which leaves Soo even more annoyed that he hasn't listened to her.

Sooty, Sweep and Soo would like to go skating, so they ask Matthew and he says not today, but another day. Soo says that when people say that it means never.

Sooty hears Matthew talking on the telephone to the doctor about expecting a baby. Saying it'll be nice to hear the patter of tiny feet around the house, when Sooty arrives which makes Sooty very confused and shocked causing him to faint.

Matthew, Sooty, Sweep and Soo have just returned from a holiday from Australia and they become obsessed with anything Australian.

Underneath that unintelligent exterior lies a super hero and who is prepared to answer any cries for help. Sweep awakes hearing that someone needs his help as Superdog!, but unfortunately Sweep has lost his Superdog outfit, until he finds it in the linen basket! Superdog arrives to help a very odd looking 'lady', but crash lands in some rubbish. The 'lady' tells Superdog she was screaming as the milkman had delivered the wrong milk!

Sooty uses his magic wand to turn a toy cat in to a real cat and then turns Matthew into a lion, a monkey and a bear. When Sweep needs to write a essay for school entitled 'Something that happened to me that was interesting', he finds it quite difficult, because nothing happens that is interesting or exciting to him.

Sooty decides to invent something. He invents an automatic opener (if you point this at something and press a button it opens it- e.g. a door). He lets Matthew have a try at it and Matthew sends Sweep through the roof! That gives Sweep a idea to invent something. Sooty makes some more inventions such as a lift, but it throws Sweep on the roof!

Sooty, Sweep and Soo are in their bedroom and are discussing the Royals. Sooty then tells Sweep and Soo he's met the Queen, but Sweep and Soo don't believe him so they and find Matthew to tell him about the lie Sooty has told.

Sooty, Sweep and Soo have a splendid time at Christmas with a party for their friends and many lovely presents.

Sweep's family are coming to visit, but it causes great confusion, when they all look the same! Sweep has a very large Family and invites them all to his Party. Sweep's brothers Swipe, Swap and Swoop come to stay, which causes much confusion. Sweep has a very large family and invites them all to his party. Sweep and her whole family have invited them all to his party!! NOTE: This episode was remade in Sooty & Co in 1994

When Matthew discovers that Sooty, Sweep and Soo are obsessed with computer games, he decides to teach them some of the games he used to play. Sooty, Sweep and Soo are bored, but when Matthew suggests a game of Cowboys and Indians they think that's boring too, but soon change their minds and have much fun.

It's Matthew's birthday and he is 40, and he is feeling old and unhealthy so he decides to do something about it. It's Matthew's 40th birthday and Sooty, Soo and Sweep give Matthew a wig, some wrinkle cream and some over sized boxer shorts. Matthew decides to change his lifestyle and does some exercise, but ends up dropping a dumbbell on his foot and slamming the door on his hand.

Matthew has become a mail order catalogue agent and is practicing his sales technique. He tries to persuade firstly Sooty, and then Soo, to order something from the catalogue, but they aren't interested as they have both become agents for rival catalogues. Then Sweep sees Soo and Sooty's catalogues and tells them he wants to order some items from them both. But when Soo mentions about paying for the order it falls through, as Sweep didn't realize he would have to pay for his order and has no money.

Sooty receives a letter from his Cousin Scampi but he's not best pleased he's coming to stay. Matthew finds out how naughty Scampi is after he arrives as he throws a cricket ball through the window, ties Matthew's shoelaces together so Matthew falls over, squirts Sooty with a water pistol and pours salt in Matthew's tea, Later Scampi puts cream cakes in Sweep and Soo's faces and nails the bathroom door shut so Sooty, Sweep and Soo can't escape and finally Matthew falls through a chair Scampi's sawed one of the legs off. Matthew, Sooty and Sweep chase after Scampi but they slip over a banana peels and fall into some hay. Then Matthew feels sad and wants Scampi to return as they can't find him. They receive a tin of chocolates at the door with a note from Little Cousin Scampi inside saying sorry for being so naughty and Scampi pops out. Matthew sings "Blame It On Scampi".

Matthew has become an Akela, Sooty and Sweep have become Cub Scouts and Soo a Brownie while Auntie Connie a.k.a. Connie Creighton is a Brown Owl who gives Soo some Brownie badges for completing various tasks. Matthew thinks that boys are better at stuff than girls so Connie challenges him, Sooty and Sweep to win brownie badges, but things don't go too well. Then Matthew, Sooty and Sweep decide to go camping, but things don't go according to plan.

Matthew discovers that he's losing his hair so Sooty makes a magic hair growing potion which he tries out on Sweep and then on Matthew. Things go wrong as instead of making their hair grow Sweep and Matthew end up bald. To reverse Sooty's spell they have to find a hair from a bald man and they go and find Duncan Goodhew who gives them a toy hare.

It's practical joke day and Sooty, Sweep and Soo have many jokes to play. Simon Smartypants, a TV prankster, plays a joke on Matthew but things can go wrong in The Sooty Show. Sooty, Sweep and Soo play jokes on Matthew.

Matthew turns the house into a B&B to earn more money. But things don't quite go to plan when setting it up.

Sooty's bored and poor Sweep ends up getting stuck in a cupboard playing Blind Man's Buff. Matthew and Sooty go off for a game of bowls but it doesn't go as Matthew expects. Then they both go back home and Matthew sings "Board Games".

When Matthew is taken to hospital, Soo is left looking after him with help of Sooty, Sweep and Scampi.

It's Sooty's Birthday, and Matthew, Sweep, Soo and Scampi act as if they have not remembered and shock Sooty with a unique gift. Also, Matthew takes Sooty to the Sooty Museum.
They come back home and Rod, Jane and Freddy sing to Sooty with help from Matthew and Soo.

Sooty and Scampi won't let Soo and Sweep into their bedroom so Soo goes and tells Matthew. Matthew gives them a periscope and they got to find out what's going on, but Sooty paints it before Soo and Sweep can see, So drill through the roof and then fall through it! Sooty has created Solid Water! Then, they decide to play a few tricks on Matthew, also Soo makes it snow inside and they have a surprise visit from Connie Creighton as Mother Christmas. Matthew decides to show Connie the Solid Water but the magic has worn off, and tips a bucket of water of Connie, but then she gets her own back.

Matthew and Sweep are felling extremely fanatical about energy activities. Sweep is fanatical about karate and judo, whilst Matthew on the other hand is completely fanatical about exercising! Once again, because he is too fanatical about it he makes a fool of himself. NOTE: Elaine Ford guest stars in this episode