We describe a large-scale far-infrared line and continuum survey of protoplanetary disk through to young debris disk systems carried out using the ACS instrument on the Herschel Space Observatory. This Open Time Key program, known as GASPS (Gas Survey of Protoplanetary Systems), targeted ~250 young stars in narrow wavelength regions covering the [OI] fine structure line at 63um the brightest far-infrared line in such objects. A subset of the brightest targets were also surveyed in [OI]145um, [CII] at 157um, as well as several transitions of HO and high-excitation CO lines at selected wavelengths between 78 and 180um. Additionally, GASPS included continuum photometry at 70, 100 and 160um, around the peak of the dust emission.