The first serious attempt to fill the summer recess, Get Set For Summer was farmed out to BBC North West, and was presented by a staggeringly bland duo: dodgy Radio One DJ Peter Powell, and future Blue Peter presenter (1986-89) Mark Curry. The show had a larger outdoor element than Swap Shop, but also had a cheaper feel, probably because it was.

For the third series it was renamed "The Get Set Picture Show", which didn't, and doesn't, actually make any sense. I seem to remember it being more commonly referred to simply as "Get Set" (although no-one else does) - an early example of the misguided shortening frenzy that would later sweep the world of tv at large (viz. 7T3, Frank Stubbs [Promotes], [All Quiet on the] Preston Front, [Band of] Gold - and so on). The next year, in an attempt to reintroduce some logic into the programme's title, it mutated into The Saturday Picture Show (q.v.).