You might think of gentle children’s TV favourite Sooty as a bit of a mild-mannered, wholesome chap – but it seems that he created a bit of an outcry at the BBC back in the day. And why’s that?

the classic glove puppet is still working as hard as ever – and is about to start a new Sunday morning kids’ TV series. Despite being on air almost continuously since the 1950s, The Sooty Show ...

As a result, he told Corbett the BBC was prepared to "hold up the contractual negotiations which are in train" and "urgently review the future of the Sooty series in BBC Television". One of the ...

The nation's love affair with a little yellow bear with black ears called Sooty, who is 75 this year, is seemingly endless and so all eyes will be on Hanson's Auctioneers later this month when an ...

The Sooty franchise is focused upon the adventures of Sooty, a fictional glove puppet character created by magician and puppeteer Harry Corbett in the 1950s, alongside his other friends Sweep and Soo.