1983 in Scottish television

none June 2024 1983 Scottish television This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1983. Events January 17 January – Breakfast Time, Britain's first breakfast show, launches on BBC1. The new service includes four opt-outs, which allow BBC Scotland to broadcast its own news bulletin. February 1 February – TV-am launches, with Good Morning Britain. However this is a national service with no opt-outs for Scottish news. May After 15 years on air, the final edition of current affairs programme Current Account is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland. June 9–10 June – Television coverage of the 1983 general election. September 6 September – ITV broadcasts the STV-produced Killer. It would later be turned into a series and re-titled Taggart.http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/fifty-years-on-stv-set-for-studio-switch-1-512174 Fifty years on, STV set for studio switch The Scotsman 3 July 2004 28 April 2012 October 24 October – Sixty Minutes launches on BBC1, replacing Nationwide, and the Reporting Scotland name is dropped, becoming Scotland Sixty Minutes due to the regional news programmes being incorporated into the new programme. Debuts ITV 6 September – Taggart (1983–2010)Dalziel Magdalene Ten people you didn't know appeared in Taggart as show marks 35th anniversary https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/tv/in-taggart-as-show-celebrates-15121391 GlasgowLive 24 May 2022 en 6 September 2018 Television series Scotsport (1957–2008)Haynes Richard BBC Sport in Black and White 17 November 2016 Springer 978-1-137-45501-7 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZM-GDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 en Top Club (1971–1998) Scotland Today (1972–2009) Sportscene (1975–present)Sportscene at 50: Famous faces back for anniversary https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c99mpvzl71ko BBC Sport 8 August 2025 6 August 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250811222945/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c99mpvzl71ko 11 August 2025 live The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present) Grampian Today (1980–2009) Take the High Road (1980–2003)Brown Ian Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities 13 February 2020 Springer Nature 978-3-030-39407-3 194 https://books.google.com/books?id=gXvQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 en Now You See It (1981–1986) Ending this year 21 October – Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present) Births March – Mark Prendergast, actor See also 1983 in Scotland References 1983 Category:Television in Scotland by year Category:1980s in Scottish television