Hosted by Tom Kennedy from 1984-1986, Body Language features two teams, each consisting of a contestant and a celebrity guest, as they compete in a game of charades to guess clue words for a puzzle. In each turn, one teammate serves as the "actor," and is responsible for pantomiming a selection of words or phrases, while the other teammate acts as the "guesser," and has 60 seconds to guess as many words as possible.