When Harry Corbett bought a bear glove puppet on Blackpool's North Pier in 1948 to entertain his children, he could surely not have realised he was teaming up with a future TV icon. Sooty, who turned ...

On April 12, 1995, a padded envelope marked “VIDEOTAPE!” with no return address landed on the desk of a Disneyland executive secretary working in the security office of the Southern California theme ...

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And two other theme parks with lands inspired by children's TV characters AN award-winning theme park in Devon is home to a little-known Sooty-theme land where kids can watch live shows of their ...