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01x47 - Pantomime Problems!

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Sooty Show". Aired: July 30, 1968.*
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Children's slapstick show with the little bear glove puppet and his friends.

01x47 - Pantomime Problems!

Post by bunniefuu »

oh hello it's mr slater's annual

pantomime little red riding hood and i

can't wait

oh look even richard's in it i wonder

what part mr slate has given him

i'm coming out

don't say a word

[Music]

oh all right all right stop laughing and

give me a hand with my makeup

i hope you know what you're doing

you're experts

i've heard that before

right now make a good job of it boys

mr slater's put me in charge of this

pantomime so it's very important that

everything is perfect

[Music]

hi sue

what's so funny this is pantomime

well you'll certainly make an impression

richard oh i hope so sue after all i

shall be appearing alongside some of the

biggest names in showbiz

yes mr slater's booked the famous dame

beryl longman and the giggleswick

players to star in this show this could

be my big chance to get spotted

[Music]

now what now you're spotted

boys that is not what i asked for

oh no it isn't oh yes it is oh no it

isn't oh yes it is oh no don't start all

that look this is serious if this

pantomime doesn't go well mr slater will

give me the sack

well that's my teleport

now where have i put it oh richard yes

[Music]

hello slater's holidays

dane beryl longman oh g*ng it's the

actors oh damn beryl i'm really looking

forward to working with you

what you're not coming they're not

coming you've been offered a better role

a swiss roll

bye

oh

you'll perform the pantomime for me are

you actors

you're experts oh no oh go on richard if

you don't put on a pantomime mr slater

will give you the sack for sure

oh

all right

come on boys i'm gonna regret this for

sure

[Music]

already backstage boys right it's

showtime

ladies and gentlemen boys and girls

welcome to suny's production of little

red riding

it's hood blue riding hood so what do

you mean little blue riding hood it's

supposed to be little red riding hood

but blue's my favorite color is it yes

followed by pink orange violet yellow

light green all right all right we'll go

with it

now where's the script

thank you

yes it's time for little

blue riding hood

[Applause]

the scene

is a deep woodland forest

a deep woodland forest

deep woodland seaside woodland seaside

[Music]

little blue riding hood is picking

shells to take to her poor sick

grandmother the shells she's not

supposed to be picking shells she's

supposed to be picking flowers

he didn't have any flowers

[Music]

oh my name is little blue riding hood

and i'm gathering litter to take to my

poor sick grandmother you didn't have

any shells either

brilliant

as she was picking litter

little blue riding hood met the handsome

young woodcutter who was looking for

trees sorry

lamp posts to cut down

lamp posts

you didn't have any trees either there's

a surprise

[Music]

[Music]

well i'll tell you what else you don't

have you don't have a wood cutter

because the woodcutter is supposed to

come on now and that's you

and so enters our dashing young

woodcutter

looking for

lampposts to cut down

[Music]

city don't knock the heroin over you're

supposed to be saving a life

suddenly the woodcutter jack by name

sees little blue riding hood and

immediately falls in love with her

oh

a dashing young woodcutter has fainted

because i am so beautiful

oh woe is me luck a day misery misery he

has fainted away how can we revive him

[Music]

how can we revive him

[Music]

you're reviving him not like that that's

not in the script get that hose pipe off

the stage

[Music]

[Music]

now where were we

it was time for the woodcutter to go

home for his tea

[Music]

now i must visit my poor old sick

grandmother and take her this pretty

basket of litter

suddenly the silence of the deep

woodland forest i mean beach

was shattered by the growling of the

terrifying wicked wolf

[Music]

sweet you're supposed to be dressed as a

wicked wolf not a pink bunny rabbit

[Music]

he didn't have a wolf costume oh ahem

suddenly the silence was shattered by

the terrifying bunny rabbit

little blue riding hood ran off to her

grandmother's house terrified

oh i am terrified

said the bunny rabbit

i know where little blue riding hood's

grandmother lives

i will run on ahead of her and get to

that cottage first

[Music]

and then i will eat her for my supper

[Music]

the fearsome bunny rabbit raced ahead to

her grandmother's cottage and slowly

very slowly the light began to fade

on that sunny woodland scene

fade the light slowly sweep

just turn them on again

sorry

and so we find ourselves in granny's

woodland cottage

granny is asleep

the cloth's upside down

oh never mind

and

suddenly the wicked bunny appears

[Music]

the wicked bunny seeing little blue

riding hood's granny decides to take her

place

[Music]

just then little blue riding hood

arrived hello granny i brought you a

pretty basket of litter to brighten up

your room

[Music]

why

thank you my dear

oh granny what a squeaky voice you've

got

all the better to squeak to you with my

dear and oh

granny

what big teeth you've got

[Music]

all the better

[Applause]

[Music]

just as the bunny rabbit was about to

eat little blue riding hood for his

supper in dash jack our dashing young

woodsman

and soaks the bunny with his water

p*stol he ran out of the cottage and was

never seen again

[Music]

and little blue riding hood and jack the

dashing young woodcutter got married and

lived happily ever after

[Music]

[Applause]

thank you

thank

what's you mr slater yes the pantomime

is a huge success

oh no it isn't

bye bye everybody

bye bye

[Music]

bye