After a number of appearances on "Friday Night Live" in the mid-late 1980s, Clary co-hosted the short-lived ITV game show "Trick or Treat" in 1989 with Mike Smith, before achieving greater success later that year with his own high-camp Channel 4 gameshow, "Sticky Moments with Julian Clary". More a vehicle for his brand of humour than a genuine gameshow, "Sticky Moments" was a light-hearted "non-quiz" satire, with him often awarding points because he liked the contestants, rather than because they possessed a particular skill or aptitude. He later starred in the 1992 audience participation sitcom "Terry and Julian" with Lee Simpson, again for Channel 4. His next series was the BBC's studio-based "All Rise for Julian Clary" in 1996, in which he played a judge in a mock courtroom setting.