Series Four (1996)
| Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|
| "44. Water World (aka New Water)" | 9 September 1996 (1996-09-09) |
| Matthew repairs Sooty's wand that Scampi has broken and magics a customer. It is Mr Dwayne from the Water Board, who asks them to help him make water more interesting. They all set about the task - Mr Dwayne gets covered in gunge in the process. Sweep and Scampi make a machine that produces "aerated water" (foam), which goes out of control. Sooty takes it to the tip, covering everyone on the way with foam. | |
| "45. Tidy Box" | 16 September 1996 (1996-09-16) |
| Matthew isn't happy when his naughty Little Cousin Paul is coming to stay, but Paul ends up well-liked with Matthew when he trades to Mo, but will it last...? | |
| "46. Dear Diary" | 23 September 1996 (1996-09-23) |
| Sooty and the gang choose to keep a diary, after Mo trades lots of diaries to Matthew with last years date! | |
| "47. Shopping" | 30 September 1996 (1996-09-30) |
| Sooty, Sweep and Scampi are playing a mystery game with Soo. Matthew is in his bedroom dehydrating his hair and when his hairbrush is one of the mysteries, Matthew's hair can't get brushed and is left in a bad state! Soo says she adores the game ""Supermarket Sweep"" so it provides Matthew a suggestion to hold a ""Supermarket Sweep"" in the shop. | |
| "48. Uncle Stuart" | 7 October 1996 (1996-10-07) |
| Matthew requests Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Scampi how they would feel to look after the elderly. They believe that Matthew is chatting about his welfare. Mo comes in and wants an important person to look after her Uncle Stuart. They all in agreement, but they carry on leaving him behind! Mo then sees Matthew to discover how Uncle Stuart is. Mo grabs hold of Matthew and tells him if something happens to Uncle Stuart, he'll be apologetic. Matthew pretends to be Uncle Stuart, but in the end they discover the real Uncle Stuart. | |
| "49. When I Was a Lad" | 14 October 1996 (1996-10-14) |
| Sooty asks Matthew for a series of batteries for his electronic game, and then Sooty is told about the old days about when Matthew was a lad, and is also irritated by a Brass Band player. Through this episode Matthew shows Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Scampi examples of toys from then old days and Matthew even dresses up as a lad from the older days. Then he imagines about being the boss of a Victorian Mill. In the end Matthew wakes up, and the Brass Band enter and start to play. | |
| "50. A Pain In Spain" | 21 October 1996 (1996-10-21) |
| Sooty and Co. are in the Airport and waiting for the flight to come through. They get onto the plane and Soo notifies Matthew that Scampi has been in the toilet for a long time, he goes to the door and begins to knock on the door and informs him to come out, he notices Scampi is outside and there is a women in the toilet, Matthew ends up with a black eye. They enjoy sunbathing, all apart from Matthew who strokes toothpaste over him because he thinks its Sun Cream. Later on, they go to a club and everyone gets someone to dance with apart from Matthew! At the end they are all set and ready to go back and after saying Bye-bye, Matthew has an accident and falls into the swimming pool! | |
| "51. White Elephants" | 28 October 1996 (1996-10-28) |
| Matthew is in a terrible mood because of Mo. He says every time she comes in, she at all times manages to trade him a White Elephant. He bans Mo from the shop and he doesn't want them departing the shop to see Mo, but Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Scampi notice Mo has left her purse and they choose to tiptoe out to the marketplace to give Mo her purse back. Matthew notices they’re gone and chooses to teach them a lesson. Matthew imagines that he had a get-together when Sooty and the gang were out. Matthew and the rest have a real get-together when they apologise to him for sneaking out. | |
| "52. Tidy Box" | 4 November 1996 (1996-11-04) |
| Cousin Paul arrives having tricked Matt to go and collect him. He and Scampi construct a machine that "automatically" tidies up. Mo is very taken with Paul and allows him to demonstrate his "Tidy Box". He distracts her: Sooty and Sweep emerge and tidy up. Mo buys box. Paul and the puppets make lots of other Tidy Boxes. When Matt returns Paul tricks him as well with the box. Mo returns and demands her money back: Paul's trick is discovered. | |
| "55. Matt Alone" | 11 November 1996 (1996-11-11) |
| Matthew is cross that Mo has managed to sell him another white elephant. When he finds she has left her purse in the shop he forbids the puppets to return it to her and bans her from the shop. They drive to the market leaving gadgets running to make Matthew think they are still in the shop. When Matthew finds out what has happened he makes out they've missed a party whilst they were out. They admit they disobeyed him and to show there are no hard feelings Matthew invites Mo over for a real party. | |
| "56. Squatters" | 18 November 1996 (1996-11-18) |
| Sweep is taking food secretly. Matt follows a line of crumbs to the camper and finds the entire Sweep family. He keeps telling them to leave but they keep coming back. Sweep is very upset and accuses Matt of not liking his family, and they only want to stay whilst their home is being decorated. The other puppets accuse Matt of being mean, so he allows the Sweep family to stay - they take all the food and leave Matt and the other puppets with nothing. | |
| "57. Sooty Market Sweep" | 25 November 1996 (1996-11-25) |
| The puppets play a game: Soo gives them a "clever clue" and they have to find what the answer is. Sweep is hopeless and gets them all wrong. Matt hires a TV personality, Matthew Kelly, to play the game properly as he thinks that it might help them sell things. Sweep wins everything and is the hero of the hour. | |
| "58. Highland Fling" | 2 December 1996 (1996-12-02) |
| Matthew assumes a letter addressed to the 3rd Lord of Glenfurry is for him and sets off for Scotland to claim his heritage, followed by the puppets in the camper. Matt learns "how to be Scottish", is kept awake all night by a piper and tricked into thinking he's seen the Loch Ness Monster by the puppets. Finally they arrive at castle Glenfurry, where Matt and the others discover it is Sooty who is the Laird. All the puppets have a party with jelly and cakes - and Matt is given horrible porridge. | |
| "59. Sooty's Christmas Panto" | 16 December 1996 (1996-12-16) |
| It's Christmas time at Sooty and Co. and the Sooty gang can't go to see a Pantomime as the business is going badly. That gives them a plan to present their own Pantomime for the local boys and girls. |
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