Starting Out is an Australian television soap opera made for the Nine Network by the Reg Grundy Organisation in 1983.
The five-night-a-week series was created by Reg Watson as the network's replacement for the long-running serial The Young Doctors.
The series failed to gain sufficient ratings and was quickly cancelled and removed from network schedules by 20 May 1983.
[1] Robert Fidgeon of the Herald Sun named Starting Out as one of "Australia's All-time Top 50 TV Turkeys".
"[3] Fidgeon's colleague Fiona Byrne included Starting Out in her feature about "long forgotten Australian TV dramas that made viewers switch off.