Get Set Go
Synopsis
Engaging and clever little word game where long teams of contestants alternated supplying consecutive words of a question to communicate an answer to another contestant. In the meantime, Michael Barrymore (then a fresh-faced young pup) leered and looned at whoever was due to speak next in an attempt to explain just what the Dickens was going on to the audience.
Confused? So were the viewers, and hence one series was all the show got both over there and over here. Still, it could have been worse. In the USA, the show was hosted by a former weatherman. Be glad that they didn't decide to do the same thing over here and make Ian McCaskill the host.
Michael Barrymore, pictured here with his two trophies from the Challenge TV Game Show Awards.Inventor
British version of an American show entitled simply Go!, but nothing to do with white and black stones on a 19x19 grid.
Trivia
If you want to play the game yourself, buy the board game Inspeaquence, which uses very similar principles.
We seem to recall that the show's signature prize was a unicycle. Well, it's different.
Apparently, the consolation prize was a print-out calculator.
