Sweep is a British dog and television character popular in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and other countries.

Sweep is a grey dog with long black ears who joined The Sooty Show in 1957, as a friend to fellow puppet Sooty. He is a smart, talented and clever dog with a penchant for bones and sausages. Sweep is notable for his method of communication which consists of a loud high-pitched squeak that gains its inflection from normal speech and its rhythm from the syllables in each word.

The rest of the cast, namely Soo and the presenter, could understand Sweep perfectly, and would (albeit indirectly) translate for the viewer.

Sweep’s family first appeared on the Sooty Show in an episode called “Sweep’s Family”. He has a mother and father; a twin brother, Swoop; two cousins, Swipe and Swap,and another seven brothers in the litter (all of whom look exactly like him, and wear different coloured collars to tell each other apart).

Swipe and Swap are described as Sweep’s brothers in the Sooty & Co. episode “Sweep’s Family” and the Sooty Heights episode “The Hounds of Music”.