This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1983.

• 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.

• 1 February – TV-am launches, with Good Morning Britain. However this is a national service with no opt-outs for Scottish news.

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• After 15 years on air, the final edition of current affairs programme Current Account is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland.

• 9–10 June – Television coverage of the 1983 general election.

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• 6 September – ITV broadcasts the STV-produced Killer. It would later be turned into a series and re-titled Taggart.^[1]

• 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.

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• 6 September – Taggart (1983–2010)^[2]

• Scotsport (1957–2008)^[3]
• Top Club (1971–1998)
• Scotland Today (1972–2009)
• Sportscene (1975–present)
• The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
• Grampian Today (1980–2009)
• Take the High Road (1980–2003)^[4]
• Now You See It (1981–1986)

• 21 October – Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)

• March – Mark Prendergast, actor

• 1983 in Scotland