The debut of Nine’s new soapie Starting Out, replacing The Young Doctors. The new series, from the Grundy Organisation, centred around a group of first year medical students. The cast included John Hamblin, Jill Forster, Suzy Gashler, Peter O’Brien, David Clencie, Tottie Goldsmith, Gerard Maguire, Maurie Fields, Rowena Mohr, Paul Williams, Yves Stening, Colin Vancao, Leander Brett, Marie Redshaw, John Higginson and Nikki Coghill. The series had a short life and was soon cancelled with its remaining episodes played out over the summer break.

Seven begins a re-run of US mini-series Holocaust, while Ten screens a news special, The Royals, with an update on the royal tour of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

Source: TV Week, 2 April 1983. (SBS: The Age, 5 April 1983)

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS0/28
6AM			6am Rocky And His Friends 6.25 Go Health 6.30 The Adventures Of The Lone Ranger	6am Cartoons 6.15 The Three Stooges (B&W) 6.30 Superman (B&W)
7AM		7am Mister Ed (B&W) 7.30 Crusader Rabbit	7am The National Today Show	7am Good Morning Australia
8AM	8am Sesame Street	8am Tom And Jerry 8.30 Bewitched
9AM	9am Close 9.30 Play School	9am Class Of ’74 (B&W) 9.30 This Is Your Life	9am Here’s Humphrey	9am The Restless Years
10AM	10am Close	10am Romper Room	10am Another World	10am The Beatles 10.30 Fat Cat And Friends
11AM		11am Eleven AM	11am The Richard Simmons Show 11.30 National Nine News	11am Good Morning Melbourne
12PM		12pm Movie: In The Doghouse. 1964 (B&W) [IMDB]	12pm The Mike Walsh Show	12pm Movie: Malachi’s Cove. 1975 [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News, Weather 1.11 Movie: 52nd Street. 1937 [IMDB]		1.30 Days Of Our Lives
2PM	2.30 Wild, Wild World Of Animals 2.55 The Wombles	2pm Donahue	2.30 News 2.35 The Young And The Restless	2pm Clive Robertson’s Beauty And The Beast
3PM	3pm Sesame Street	3pm Police Woman	3.30 General Hospital	3pm The Waltons
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Dr Snuggles 4.35 Under The Mountain	4pm Shirl’s Neighbourhood 4.30 Lassie	4pm Skippy The Bush Kangaroo 4.30 Matchmates	4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
5PM	5.05 Ritter’s Cove 5.30 Battle Of The Planets 5.54 Danger Mouse 5.58 ABC News Headlines	5pm Wheel Of Fortune. Ernie Sigley, Adriana Xenides 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie	5pm Here’s Lucy 5.30 Family Feud. Daryl Somers	5pm Gilligan’s Island 5.30 The Muppet Show	5.30pm Karagoz (Turkey) 5.45 Mr Storyteller (Greece) 5.57 News Headlines
6PM	6pm The Kenny Everett Video Show 6.20 The Goodies 6.55 Take 5	6pm The New Price Is Right. Ian Turpie 6.30 Seven National News	6pm Starting Out PREMIERE (see advertisement below) 6.30 National Nine News	6pm Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Jo Pearson	6pm Hocus Pocus 6.30 Rock Around The World
7PM	7pm ABC News. Geoff Raymond 7.30 Our World: The Mystery Of The Red Sea Wreck	7pm Sons And Daughters 7.30 A Country Practice	7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Delvene Delaney 7.30 Waterloo Station	7pm MASH 7.30 Carson’s Law	7pm International Sports Magazine 7.30 World News
8PM	8.25 Nationwide. Peter Couchman 8.55 Airline	8.30 Mini-Series: Holocaust. Part One [IMDB]	8.30 Remington Steele	8.30 Prisoner	8pm SCOOP 8.30 Half Time (Germany)
9PM	9.45 ABC News, Weather 9.55 Rock Arena		9.30 The Daryl Somers Show	9.30 Special: The Royals	9.30 Movie: Le Dernier Milliardaire. 1934 (France) [IMDB]
10PM			10.45 Soccer: The Road To Wembley	10pm Movie: Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia. 1974 [IMDB]
11PM	11.20 Close	11.15 Seven National News 11.45 Thriller	11.45 The Evil Touch	11.30 House Calls	11.05 World News (Rpt) 11.35 Close
12AM			12.15am Movie: Last Train From Gun Hill. 1959 [IMDB]	12.30am Keep It In The Family
1AM		1.15am Close		1am Second City 1.30 Close
2AM			2.05 Movie: Thunder Road. 1958 (B&W) [IMDB]
3AM			3.45 Movie: Paper Man. 1971 [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5.10 The Big Valley (Continues to 6am)