1983–84 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The 1983–84 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1983 to August 1984.

Legend
Light yellow indicates talk shows.

Green indicates soap operas.

Pink indicates game shows.

Gold indicates news and public affairs programming.

Light teal indicates sporting events.

White indicates local programming.

Light purple indicates children's programming.

Gray indicates encore programming (e.g., reruns of prime-time programming).


 * New series are highlighted in bold.

Schedule

 * All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
 * Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs to other timeslots) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.

Monday–Friday
Notes:
 * During the two weeks that the 1984 Summer Olympics was broadcast on ABC, all regular programming was pre-empted except for 40-minute versions of All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital, which ran from July 30 through August 3 from 2 pm ET/11 am PT to 4 pm ET/1 pm PT and August 6 through August 10 from 1 pm ET/10 am PT to 3 pm ET/12 noon PT.
 * The New Newlywed Game aired on ABC from February 13 to 17, 1984 at 11:00AM EST. Hosted by Jim Lange, it was a test week of shows to see if a daytime version of Newlywed Game might be feasible for ABC. The series did re-emerge eighteen months later in syndication with Bob Eubanks hosting again; he couldn't host the February 1984 week of shows because he was hosting Dream House on NBC at the time.

Saturday
In the News aired at the end of most of CBS' Saturday morning shows.

One to Grow On aired after the credits of NBC's Saturday morning shows except The Flintstone Funnies, Mister T, and Thundarr the Barbarian.

ABC
Returning series
 * ABC Weekend Special
 * ABC World News This Morning
 * ABC World News Tonight
 * All My Children
 * American Bandstand
 * The Best of Scooby-Doo
 * Celebrity Family Feud
 * The Edge of Night
 * Family Feud
 * General Hospital
 * Good Morning America
 * Loving
 * One Life to Live
 * Pac-Man
 * The Puppy's Further Adventures
 * Ryan's Hope
 * Schoolhouse Rock!
 * This Week with David Brinkley

New series
 * Benson (reruns)
 * The Littles
 * The Love Report
 * Menudo on ABC
 * The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
 * The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
 * Rubik, the Amazing Cube

Canceled/Ended
 * The Best of the Super Friends
 * The Love Boat (reruns)
 * Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour
 * The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
 * The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour
 * Too Close For Comfort (reruns)

CBS
Returning series
 * The $25,000 Pyramid
 * As the World Turns
 * The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
 * Capitol
 * Captain Kangaroo
 * CBS Children's Film Festival
 * CBS Evening News
 * CBS Morning News
 * CBS News Sunday Morning
 * The Dukes
 * Face the Nation
 * Guiding Light
 * Gilligan's Planet (reruns)
 * Meatballs and Spaghetti (reruns)
 * The New Fat Albert Show
 * Plastic Man (reruns)
 * The Price Is Right
 * Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (reruns)
 * Tattletales
 * The Young and the Restless

New series
 * Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
 * The Biskitts
 * Body Language
 * The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
 * Dungeons & Dragons
 * Press Your Luck
 * Saturday Supercade

Canceled/Ended
 * Blackstar (reruns)
 * Child's Play
 * The Kwicky Koala Show
 * The New $25,000 Pyramid
 * Pandamonium
 * The Popeye and Olive Comedy Show
 * Speed Buggy (reruns)
 * Sunrise Semester
 * Sylvester & Tweety, Daffy, and Speedy Show

NBC
Returning series
 * Another World
 * Days of Our Lives
 * Diff'rent Strokes (reruns)
 * Dream House
 * The Facts of Life (reruns)
 * Fantasy
 * The Flintstone Funnies
 * The Incredible Hulk
 * Meet the Press
 * NBC News at Sunrise
 * NBC Nightly News
 * Sale of the Century
 * Search for Tomorrow
 * Shirt Tales
 * The Smurfs
 * Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
 * Thundarr the Barbarian (reruns)
 * Today
 * Wheel of Fortune

New series
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks
 * GO
 * Hot Potato
 * Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour
 * Mister T
 * Santa Barbara
 * Scrabble

Canceled/Ended
 * The Doctors
 * The Gary Coleman Show
 * Hit Man
 * The Jetsons (reruns)
 * Just Men!
 * The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
 * The New Battlestars
 * Texas