Body Language (game show)

Body Language was a television game show which aired from June 4, 1984, until January 3, 1986, on CBS. Tom Kennedy hosted this Mark Goodson production. Johnny Olson announced until his death in 1985; Gene Wood and Bob Hilton shared the announcing duties afterward.

Notes

The show was based on another Goodson-Todman game show in 1975 called Showoffs with the late Bobby Van as the host (originally Larry Blyden was going to be the host, but was replaced by Bobby after Larry died). The show was similar to Body Language but it had no puzzles.

Related Topics:
1975 - Bobby Van - Larry Blyden

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Later in the main game in the show's run, parenthesis were added to the two words that wern't acted out. For the first several weeks, all words were not in parenthesis making this confusing at times. Also players stay on the show until they won five games or lost once.

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In the summer of 1985, Body Language had a month-long Teen Week. The teens played the standard game, and each won a minimum of $2,500, anything over that amount went into a bond that matured on the player's 18th birthday. (If the player didn't win $2,500 through the game, the total was raised to that amount.)

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