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‘It's Better to Steal the Idea’: Swedish Television Copies Programs from America, 1957–1969

2009; Routledge; Volume: 29; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Sueco

10.1080/01439680902890696

1465-3451

Ulf Jonas Björk,

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Notes 1. Kvitt eller dubbelt, Röster i Radio-TV (hereafter, RiR-TV), December 2–8, 1956, p. 19. 2. Per Martin Hamberg, Till televisionens 5-årsjubileum, Sveriges Radio årsbok 1959, pp. 83–84; Svensk TV år ett, Sveriges Radio årsbok 1957, p. 61. 3. Hamberg, Till televisionens 5-årsjubileum, 83; the program's roots in ‘American models’ were also noted in the press, see Tage Ekstedt, Explosionsartad TV-utveckling, Svenska Dagbladets Årsbok 1957, p. 198. 4. Bæhrendtz, När ‘Hajen’ gav oss slamkryparen, RiR-TV, March 1–7, 1969, p. 16. 5. Ernest Mathijs and Janet Jones. Eds, Big Brother International: formats, critics & publics (London, 2004); Alasdair Spark, Wrestling with America: media, national images, and the global village, Journal of Popular Culture, 29(4) (1996), 83–98. 6. Richard Paterson, Drama and entertainment, in Anthony Smith (ed.) Television: an international history (Oxford, 1995), 103–104. 7. Kvitt eller Dubbelt would return eleven times between 1957 and 1989; Kvitt eller dubbelt entry, in Uno Myggan Ericson, Myggans Nöjeslexikon: Ett uppslagsverk om underhållning (Höganäs, 1992), vol. 10, 63. 8. Ingvar Orre, Adjö till TV:s ‘21’, Stockholms-Tidningen, December 28, 1957, p. 4. 9. History, Representantkontor, New York (London), binder SR Gemensamt (SRG), Sveriges Radio Archives, Stockholm. 10. Dahlgren to Åke Söderqvist, January 4, 1963, TVU Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 8, Sveriges Radio Archives (hereafter, TVU SR). 11. Dahlgren to Per-Martin Hamberg, February 16, 1960, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI Vol. 1. 12. Dahlgren to Hamberg, February 23, 1960, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 2.o 13. Dahlgren to Hamberg, January 12, 1962, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 3; Hamberg to Dahlgren, August 5, 1960, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 2. 14. Hamberg to Dahlgren, March 1, 1961, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 4; Eiworth to Dahlgren, July 17, 1959, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 1. 15. Hamberg to Sven-Bertil Norberg, May 18, 1961, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 4; Hamberg to Norberg, May 14, 1962, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 7; Dahlgren to Åke Söderqvist, January 4, 1963, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 8. 16. Hamberg to Norberg, May 14, 1962, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 4. 17. Hamberg to Flory Shanke, November 20, 1961, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 4; Dahlgren to Hamberg, November 16, 1961, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 3. 18. Eiworth to Curt Nyström, September 29, 1959, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 1; Eiworth to C.E. Bjerkenfeldt, September 29, 1959, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 1. 19. Eiworth to Richard E. Broström, September 25, 1959, TVU Chefskorrespondens, EI, Vol. 3. 20. Hyland, Hyland i Amerika: Amerikansk TV—ett irrbloss, RiR-TV, December 28, 1958, 18–19. 21. www.svt.se, search phrase ‘Hylands hörna’. 22. Schulman, På lek, på lek, RiR-TV, May 26, 1962, p. 23; Per-Martin Hamberg was less open about the matter, merely referring to a ‘model for the show’ that he and Hyland had ‘discussed thoroughly’ during their stay in Hollywood; Hamberg to Nils-Erik Bæhrendtz, TVU SR Chefskorrespondens EI, Vol. 6, January 16, 1962; more recent sources acknowledge the Paar-Hyland connection as a matter of course, see Torbjörn Ekholm, Lånade idéer—utan dem skulle TV inte klara sig, Expressen, January 26, 1990, p. 2. 23. Orre, TV-året 1966–67, När-Var-Hur 1968 (Stockholm, 1967), 365–366. 24. Carl-Gustaf tillbaka som seriefigur, Dagens Nyheter, April 3, 1969, p. 17; Allan Schulman to Roland Eiworth, Reserapport—Resa till U.S.A. februari-mars 1968, TVU SR EII. 25. Partaj program file, TVU SR Underhållningsavdelningen TV0 F1, Vol. 37. 26. Partaj entry, Uno Myggan Ericson, Myggans Nöjeslexikon, vol. 12, pp. 75–76; that Partaj was ‘a carbon copy of’ Laugh-In is stressed in recent accounts, see, respectively, Brittmarie Gustafsson, Känd blondin gör bort sig en gång till, Expressen, August 23, 1990, TV section, 2; and Olle Sjögren, Den goda underhållningen: Nöjesgenrer och artister I Sveriges Radio och TV 1945–1995 (Värnamo, Sweden, 1997), 199–200. 27. Björn Fremer Amerika skrattade sig sönder och samman—nu får vi en svensk Skratt-in, Kvällsposten, April 3, 1969, p. 21; Carl-Gustaf i kort-kort, Expressen, April 3, 1969, p. 32; RiR-TV, March 22, 1969, p. 36. 28. Sten, Räcker en bra stjärn-show? Expressen, April 5, 1969, p. 27; the tendency to see the Swedish versions as superior surfaced in relation to all three programs discussed here, see Bæhrendtz, När ‘Hajen’ gav oss. and Schulman, På lek, på lek. 29. Har vi gjort bort oss nu igen? Expressen, April 25, 1969, p. 43; Blondinen från ‘Laugh-In’ spelar mot Ingrid Bergman, Aftonbladet, April 14, 1969, p. 30; Hans Fridlund, De är förebilder till Carl-Gustaf och Ekborgs Partaj i TV, Aftonbladet, April 10, 1969, p. 32. 30. Orre, Liten chans i Montreux, Dagens Nyheter, April 5, 1969, p. 8. 31. Här sitter våra TV-författare i Norge—och ska bli roligare, Expressen, April 9, 1969, p. 32. 32. Orre, TV-året 1966–67, p. 365; Ulla Britta Ramklint, Repliker om USA-TV, Stockholms-Tidningen, April 4, 1964, p. 7. 33. Sten, Tv skjuter in sig amerikanskt på våra ekonomiska fördomar, Expressen, March 6, 1957, p. 4. 34. Sweden: Report on television and government proposals for the future, EBU Bulletin, May–June 1956, pp. 436–437; Tage Ekstedt, Televisionens genombrottsår, Svenska Dagbladets Årsbok 1956, p. 213. 35. Simon Kingsley, Producing Formats for Success, Television Europe, February 1, 2001, 66; Ekholm, Lånade idéer.