It featured winners of the ATV talent show New Faces, and was made by ATV for the ITV network Designed to emulate the fast moving style of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, it featured Marti Caine, Lenny Henry, Victoria Wood, Aiden J Harvey and singer Trevor Chance.
[1] The Summer Show consisted of five, forty-five-minute specials on the subjects of "holidays", "health and strength","mystery and crime","kids", and "entertainment".
Thus it featured the unlikely sight of Wood and Crowther duetting and other thrown-together combinations for songs, sketches and dances.
Wood said of the experience "it was one of those really bad variety shows where they got the scripts out of other people's dustbins.
Wood immediately went back to the unemployment queue when it ended, whereas the series was a springboard for other cast members; Caine got her own TV series and Henry joined The Black and White Minstrel Show.