It's Academic - 1983 Regional Final

I was probably asked to do further series of both W3 and It's Academic because I could get through up to eight shows a day without screwing things up. And when the show did have to stop, I could do live edits, saving heaps of post-production editing time. I was only ever an amateur. I started the TV work in Australia while I was an impoverished PhD student.

– Lockwood Smith reflects on his TV hosting career in a 2010 Sunday Star Times article

When we were into the really fast part of the show, the poor old adjudicator would be about two questions behind, and I just had to make instant decisions so I got very used to pace.

– Speaker of the House Lockwood Smith on how hosting TV quiz shows prepared him for parliament