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According to an interview with Ingmar Bergman, after the TV mini-series was broadcast in Sweden, the divorce rate in Sweden increased substantially and the number of married couples who seek marriage counseling also doubled.

The series was a huge hit on Swedish television. It was always the director's intent to reach a mass audience, but he was staggered by the reaction that it generated. He would find himself frequently accosted in the street by bickering couples, desperate for advice. Eventually, he had to change his phone number to escape from a constant barrage of entreaties.

Ingmar Bergman had given the actors and crew the option to choose between receiving a salary or percentage share of the profits. Liv Ullmann chose salary since Bergman's earlier movie Schreie und Flüstern (1972) was a financial failure, while Erland Josephson and others chose percentage shares. Scenes of a Marriage ended up being internationally popular and financially successful, and according to an interview with Liv Ullmann, this was one of the things she regretted in her life.

The original broadcast had no closing credits. Instead, Bergman simply told the audience off camera about the name of each cast and crew member while showing a scenic view.

English episode titles: 1. Innocence and Panic; 2. The Art of Sweeping Things Under the Rug; 3. Paula; 4. The Vale of Tears; 5. The Illiterates; 6. In the Middle of the Night in a Dark House Somewhere in the World.