Various celebrity guests made appearances, usually assisting in a game round, including Harry Enfield, Nicholas Parsons, Dora Bryan, Barbara Windsor, Fenella Fielding, Bill Oddie, The Beverley Sisters and Mike Smith (who had previously worked with Clary on the aforementioned comedy game show Trick or Treat and was a regular target of Clary's jokes).
Clary, in customary full make-up and dressed in a new outrageous outfit each week, selected contestants for the night's show from the audience members queuing outside.
At the end of each show, following a musical number by Clary and Co, the winner was then seen stepping into a chauffeur-driven car, whilst the runner-up was left to go home by less glamorous means (bicycle, wheelbarrow, etc.).
The second series was officially titled Sticky Moments on Tour with Julian Clary, although the format was essentially identical to the first series with the addition of painted studio backdrops and props to humorously pretend the show was taking place in exotic international locations (France, Australia, Japan, and an episode based at the less exotic Newport Pagnell).
"[2] Also writing in The Observer regarding the pilot episode, Jennifer Selway commented; "(Clary) has the implacable calm of a strict primary school teacher - albeit one dressed in pink and green PVC - as he disciplines the hapless contestants in his game show.
"[4] Writing in The Guardian following the pilot episode, Nancy Banks-Smith commented; "Sticky Moments with Julian Clary was so dreadful, it was actually painful like mumps, though not as funny.(...)