The production of miniseries in the beginning of the 1960s marks the watershed
in Scandinavian television drama.
The dominance of single drama productions and the strong orientation towards
adaptations and theatre aesthetics marks the early period.
From the 1960's and on, a new development towards a much stronger
inspiration from film and the American English tradition for series and
serials, changed the basic formats of television drama.
In 1962 SVT made the first of many
Scandinavian crime series Halsduken, The Scarf,
in eight parts based on a book by Francis Durbridge.
In Denmark, the popular and very productive and versatile author
Leif Panduro, wrote the manuscript to the first Danish crime series,
Do you Like Oysters, from 1967, a series in six parts.
Both the TV series based on literary classics and
the crime series was a sign of a new television culture,
a television culture beginning to find its own aesthetic and generic forms.