Seesaw (TV series)

Seesaw
Genre	Crime drama
Written by	Deborah Moggach
Directed by	George Case
Starring	Jonathan Firth Murray Head Cheryl Campbell Bob Peck John Shrapnel Abigail Cruttenden
Composer	Carl Davis
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	3 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producers	Davina Belling Philip Hinchcliffe Clive Parsons
Producer	Gillian Gordon
Cinematography	Chris Seager
Editor	Ardan Fisher
Running time	60 minutes
Production companies	Film and General Productions Scottish Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	12 March (1998-03-12) – 26 March 1998 (1998-03-26)
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Seesaw is a three-part British television crime drama, written by Deborah Moggach and directed by George Case, first broadcast on ITV on 12 March 1998.^[1][2] The series, based upon Moggach's own novel of the same name, stars David Suchet and Geraldine James as Morris and Val Price, an upper-middle class couple whose daughter, Hannah, is kidnapped and held to ransom for £500,000. Forced to sell everything they own to ensure the safe return of their daughter, Morris and Val are further shattered by the revelation that Hannah is pregnant with the kidnapper's baby.^[1]

Notably, Moggach altered the ending of Seesaw for the television production, claiming this was for "various reasons" and citing that as a complete piece, "the book in itself works better".^[3] For the television adaptation, Moggach continued her tradition of having a walk-on cameo in each of her productions, managing to break her own personal record by appearing six times through the three episodes as various different characters.^[3]

The series was later released on Region 1 DVD in the United States and Region 2 DVD in the Netherlands,^[4] although remains unreleased in the United Kingdom. When later re-broadcast on True Entertainment, the series was re-edited into two feature-length episodes.