He also played the genie on the Sooty Show.

Roland reached the final round with Soo from The Sooty Show which went to sudden death after initially drawing with four points each.

* Izzy wizzy, let's get busy – Used on The Sooty Show when using Sooty's magic wand.

* In the early 90s ' children's television programme, ' The Sooty Show ', The poem that begins with the lines " O England, country of my heart's desire " is wrongly attributed to an E. Y.

Additionally, FremantleMedia bought the rights to all former programming of the now defunct UK broadcasting strand Thames Television from Pearson International in 2002, meaning they also hold rights to a variety of shows from the Thames archives including popular children's shows from the 1970s and 1980s such as the long running The Sooty Show and Rainbow.

* The Sooty Show

Matt's position being held by Matthew Corbett ( of The Sooty Show fame ) and from 1977 by Roger Walker, before Freddy Marks took over in 1981.

The Sooty Show was a successful British children's television series that aired on BBC Television from 1955 until 1967 when the BBC eventually cancelled The Sooty Show after Paul Fox, the then controller of BBC One at the time, cleared out some of the long running shows.

After it was cancelled by the BBC that year, The Sooty Show swiftly moved to ITV shortly after the launch of Thames Television in 1968 where the series remained until Thames lost its ITV franchise in 1992.

In 1992, The Sooty Show concluded its final series, when Thames Television lost its franchise as part of the ITV network.

Sweep is a grey glove puppet dog with long black ears who joined The Sooty Show in 1957, as a friend to fellow puppet Sooty.

* Leslie Corbett-The Sooty Show

* Brian Sandford-The Sooty Show, Sooty & Co., Sooty Heights, Sooty

Matthew Corbett ( born 28 March 1948 in Guiseley, West Yorkshire, England, born Peter Graham Corbett ) is an English television personality best known for presenting The Sooty Show and later Sooty and Co.

In 1976 Corbett left Rainbow to take over The Sooty Show from his father, Harry Corbett, on his retirement.

Since then, the Cockney accent has been more accepted as an alternative form of the English Language rather than an ' inferior ' one ; in the 1950s the only accent to be heard on the BBC ( except in entertainment programmes such as Sooty ) was RP, whereas nowadays many different accents, including Cockney or ones heavily influenced by it, can be heard on the BBC.

NRG Energy Inc., based in La Jolla, California, operates an oil and natural gas-powered electricity generating plant in Montville, labeled by environmentalists as one of the " Sooty Six ", the dirtiest power plants in the state.

The most impressive diving exhibited by shearwaters is found in the Short-tailed Shearwater, which has been recorded diving below 70 m. Some albatross species are also capable of some limited diving, with Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses holding the record at 12 m. Of all the wing-propelled pursuit divers, the most efficient in the air are the albatrosses, and it is no coincidence that they are the poorest divers.

Some of these newcomers start off being disliked by the four children including the gypsy girl Jo, and Henrietta, another tomboy ; and some of them are friends from the start, including Sooty and Tinker, both sons of Uncle Quentin's scientist friends.

Some will follow fishing boats to take scraps, notably Sooty Shearwater ; these species also commonly follow whales to feed on fish disturbed by them.

Studies of gill-net fisheries show that shearwaters ( Sooty and Short-tailed ) compose 60 % of the seabirds killed by gill-nets in Japanese waters and 40 % in Monterey Bay, California in the 1980s, with the total number of shearwaters killed in Japan being between 65, 000 and 125, 000 per annum over the same study period ( 1978 – 1981 ).

The islands have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because they support over 1 % of the world populations of Fairy and Roseate Terns, and of Sooty Oystercatchers.

An exceptionally common bird, the Sooty Tern is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

* Sooty Heights ( 1999-2000 )-Presented by Richard Cadell and Liana Bridges, Sooty Heights is a comedy puppet show featuring Sooty and his pals Sweep, Soo and Little Cousin Scampi, running a hotel.

Adult males are mainly dark ( especially Sooty Grouse ) with a yellow ( Sooty Grouse ) or purplish ( Dusky Grouse ) throat air sac surrounded by white, and a yellow ( Sooty Grouse ) or yellow to red ( Dusky Grouse ) wattle over the eye during display.

Items of interest include, Robert Harbin ’ s original Zig Zag lady illusion, Chung Ling Soo's robes, rifles used for the ‘ Bullet Catch ’ by Maurice Fogel in the 1940s, an original Sooty with associated Harry Corbett apparatus, sets of props used by television magicians David Nixon and Tommy Cooper, items and a sound recording of Harry Houdini taken from an Edison cylinder, and a set of cups and balls used by HRH The Prince of Wales when he took his Magic Circle exam in 1975.

The group has been identified as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) by BirdLife International because of its significance as a breeding site for several species of seabirds, including White-necked and Black-winged Petrels, Wedge-tailed and Little Shearwaters, Sooty Terns and Blue Noddies.

The new line-up, also including the band's manager Mark " Sooty " Byrne on second guitar, signed with Anagram Records, and recorded a session for David Jensen's BBC radio show.

His first appearance with the silent Sooty was in a 1952 BBC TV show called Talent Night.

Two kinds of lizards, the Mourning Gecko ( Lepidodactylus lugubris ) and Snake-eyed Skink ( Ablepharus boutonii ) are present on Malden, together with brown libellulid dragonfly and large colonies of Sooty Terns and other migratory seabirds ( nineteen species in all ).

" They also had songs featured in the movies The X-Files film ( Fight the Future ), Batman and Robin, Tommy Boy and Spawn ( a song called " A Plane Scraped Its Belly on a Sooty Yellow Moon ", a collaboration with drum and bass artist Roni Size.

Sooty molds that develop on plants, especially in the tropics are the thalli of many species.

Other birds recorded on the cays include Masked and Brown Boobies, Silver Gulls, Black-naped, Sooty, Bridled, Greater Crested, Lesser Crested and Little Terns, Black and Common Noddies, and Lesser Frigatebirds.

Harry Corbett, famous for his children's television glove puppet character Sooty stage act lived with his parents who owned the former " Springfield Fisheries " fish and chip shop ( now " Midgeley's ") on Springfield Road.

Many are also among the longest-distance migrants ; Sooty Shearwaters nesting on the Falkland Islands migrate between the breeding colony and the North Atlantic Ocean off Norway.

Many are long-distance migrants, perhaps most spectacularly Sooty Shearwaters, which cover distances in excess of from their breeding colony on the Falkland Islands ( 52 ° S 60 ° W ) north to 65 °- 70 ° N in the North Atlantic Ocean off north Norway.

The Eurasian Oystercatcher is the lightest on average, at, while the Sooty Oystercatcher is the heaviest, at.

Southern species of shearwater such as the Sooty Shearwater and Short-tailed Shearwater, breeding on islands off Australia, New Zealand and Chile, undertake transequatorial migrations of millions of birds up to the waters off Alaska and back each year during the austral winter.

Usually loud, Sooty Shearwaters coo and croak while on the breeding grounds.

Sooty Shearwaters breed on small islands in the south Pacific and south Atlantic Oceans, mainly around New Zealand, the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego and also in the Auckland Islands and Phillip Island off Norfolk Island.

* http :// www. aos-uk. com / ascension. html Sooty Terns on Ascension Island South Atlantic

Females of both species ( Sooty Grouse pictured ) are mottled brown with dark brown and white marks on the underparts.

Other birds found on Andros include the West Indian Woodpecker, the Loggerhead Kingbird, La Sagra's Flycatcher, the Greater Antillean Pewee, the Bahama Mockingbird, The Red-legged Thrush, the Thick-billed Vireo, the Black-whiskered Vireo, the Olive-capped Warbler, the Black-cowled Oriole, the Greater Antillean Bullfinch, the Black-faced Grassquit, the Melodious Grassquit, the Least Grebe, Olivaceous Cormorant, the Flamingo, the Bahama Pintail, Osprey, Kestel, Sooty Tern, Roseate Tern, Noddy Tern, White-crowned Pigeon, Zenaida Dove, White-bellied Dove, the Smooth-billed Ani and the Cuban Emerald Hummingbird.

Animals known to routinely feed on glacial squid ( excluding cannibalism ) include the Antarctic Petrel, Light-mantled Sooty Albatross, Ross seal, southern elephant seal, Weddell seal, Patagonian toothfish, Wandering Albatross, Grey-headed Albatross, and the Emperor Penguin.

Another popular spectacle is the Sooty Tern nesting season on Bush Key between February and September, which involves an approximately 80, 000 terns.

File: Starbuck AKK Sooty Tern. jpg | Sooty Tern colony on Starbuck Island