Advent Calendar 2022 Day 4: The Sooty Show, 1985

Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Matthew had quite a few adventures come the season as you'd expect, and we've picked out Sooty's Busy Christmas (izziness and wizziness quotients unstated) as the Advent Calendar's first for a number of reasons. For one, it upholds the great but then dying tradition of visiting children at Great Ormond Street Hospital. For a second, it features Matthew's new selection of hand bells. For a third, the A-story that emerges in the last third stars Bernie Clifton on rare variety form. But also notably the house gets a visit from permed sixteen year old Young Magician of the Year Richard Cadell, who made such an impression he would take over the handyman role after Corbett retired in 1998 and eventually buy the rights to the whole business.