TV series
Starting Out
1983 · 1 season
A gentle, talky slice of youthful independence, more comforting than gripping, with earnest small dramas that drift by easily.
- Created by
- Reg Watson
- Genres
- Soap
- Starring
- Maurie Fields, Leander Brett, Nikki Coghill
- Overview
- Starting Out is an Australian television soap opera made for the Nine Network by the Reg Grundy Organisation in 1983. The series was the network's replacement for The Young Doctors, set at a medical college with an emphasis on young people getting their first experience of living away from home and leading independent lives. The youthful cast included Gary Sweet, David Clencie, Nikki Coghill, Tottie Goldsmith and Peter O'Brien, whilst more experienced cast members complementing the young leads included Maurie Fields, Gerard Maguire, Jill Forster and Anne Phelan. The series failed to gain sufficient ratings and was quickly cancelled and removed from the schedules after five episodes. The remaining eighty episodes were screened out-of-ratings in late 1983.
- How it feels
- Earnest, warm and melancholic. Measured and easy to follow.
- About
- Coming-of-age, identity, found family, friendship
- Content
- Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
- Note
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- Created by
- Reg Watson
- Genres
- Soap
- Starring
- Maurie Fields, Leander Brett, Nikki Coghill
