Titteliture [SEP] country of origin
Titteliture
Titteliture was the Sveriges Television's Christmas calendar and Sveriges Radio's Christmas Calendar in 1960. The radio version was called Barnens adventskalender (""The Children's Christmas Calendar"").
Plot.
Every time, except for Wednesdays (that were TV-broadcasting-free in Sweden at that time), a "tomte" called Titteliture (a name created from "tittut", the Swedish term for "peekaboo") opens a calendar window. Behind each calendar window is a guest, and
or radio show, starting on December 1 and ending on Christmas Eve (December 24).
Such a show first aired on radio in 1957 in the form of the Swedish radio series "Barnens adventskalender"; the first televised show of the genre aired in 1960 in the form of the Swedish program "Titteliture". The first "julekalender" aired in Denmark was "Historier fra hele verden" in 1962. The televised "julkalender" or "julekalendar" has now extended into the other Nordic countries; in Finland