Cirrus@Austlit

'Whereas the miniseries, most often based on revered literary texts, has been a staple of British television for fifty years, I could count on the fingers of a dismembered hand its Australian counterparts. In fact, the miniseries in general, as distinct from serials that run for a longer or shorter period, seems never to have been as common here, though The Dismissal(1983) remains an Australian small-screen highlight. (As for those derived from novels, the count is even sparser.)' (Introduction)