It's Academic (New Zealand game show)

It's Academic was a general knowledge quiz show for high school students in New Zealand, broadcast by TVNZ from 1981 until 1988.it's Academic page on NZ On Screen website, viewed 2013-07-26 It's Academic was hosted by Lockwood Smith (who later became a member of the New Zealand Parliament, eventually serving as its speaker) and, later, John Hayden. The show was produced by Kevan Moore & Associates, an independent production house led by producer/director and ex-TV2 programming chief Kevan Moore,Kevan Moore page on NZ On Screen website, viewed 2013-07-26 with Patrick Macaskill as adjudicator.

School teams of three pupils competed for digital watches, handheld calculators and sets of the Encyclopædia Britannica for their school. The quiz followed the format of its long-running American counterpart. The theme tune, 'Piano Parchment', was written as library music in 1968 by Johnny PearsonJohnny Pearson obituary in The Independent, viewed 2013-07-26 and was well known in New Zealand living rooms about the same time as the theme for BBC drama series All Creatures Great and Small.

List of winning schools

1981: Onslow College, WellingtonWhatever happened to... on New Zealand Herald website, viewed 2013-07-26 1985: Takapuna Grammar School, Team-Sarah Ell, Erica Heppleston, Suzanne Nola 1988: Takapuna Grammar School, Team- Simon North, Lyall McMillan, Janine Pritchard

External links It's Academic 1993 regional final on NZ On Screen website.

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