The Sooty Show
Harry Corbett's glove puppet, on air for thirty-seven years and handed from father to son halfway through.
One opening sequence is catalogued for The Sooty Show, covering season 1.
It arrived on BBC One in 1955, when This Is Your Life was also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip placed. The one dated upload covers 1985 to 1987, and the programme's move from the BBC to ITV leaves no season numbering that reaches it. The successor series, Sooty & Co, is catalogued separately.
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