Redcap (1964)
Redcap is a British television series produced by ABC Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network. It starred John Thaw as Sergeant John Mann, a member of the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police and ran for two series and 26 episodes between 1964 and 1966, being about 50 minutes in a 60 minute time slot. Surprisingly for a 1960s ABC Weekend Television programme, 23 of the 26 episodes still exist.
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Episode 1 - It's What Comes After
Release Date: 1964-10-17Mann's investigation of a soldier going AWOL uncovers a sexual attack on an officer's wife, and that officer's inexplicable reluctance to do anything about it.
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Episode 2 - A Town Called Love
Release Date: 1964-10-24In West Berlin, a British solder has injured a call girl, and rather than face charges, defects to the East Germans. To spare the soldier's wife, Mann goes "Over The Wall" too in an attempt to bring him back.
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Episode 3 - Epitaph for a Sweat
Release Date: 1964-10-31In Aden, a tough Sargent badly beats a native boy,enough to hospitalize him. Mann is sent to look into it, but midway through the investigation, the Sargent meets with a deadly accident.
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Episode 4 - Misfire
Release Date: 1964-11-07 -
Episode 5 - Corporal McCann's Private War
Release Date: 1964-11-14 -
Episode 6 - The Orderly Officer
Release Date: 1964-11-21 -
Episode 7 - Night Watch
Release Date: 1964-11-28 -
Episode 8 - The Boys of B Company
Release Date: 1964-12-05At a base where boys are trained as would-be soldiers, one has nearly committed suicide and another several petty crimes in the nearby town. Mann learns that an overzealous boy officer may have pushed them to the breaking point.
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Episode 9 - A Regiment of the Line
Release Date: 1964-12-12A Scots contingent serves duty in a west German town, but they fight and bully their way amongst the locals. When three of them murder the owner of a pub, Mann must discern who is responsible.
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Episode 10 - The Man They Did
Release Date: 1964-12-19When a soldier dies of exhaustion on a routine hike with pack, The officers above him are at odds with whether he was intentionally overworked or if he was unfit for service to begin with.
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Episode 11 - A Question of Initiative
Release Date: 1965-01-02When a German civilian is run down by a group of British soldiers in a stolen car, Mann finds out the pressures on the men that pushed them to do it, and those involving the base and it's personnel with local politics.
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Episode 12 - A Place of Refuge
Release Date: 1965-01-09In West Germany, an officer's suicide leads to a supposed refugee hospital, where almost twenty years after the war, there's few residents, but dangerous drugs in abundance.
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Episode 13 - The Patrol
Release Date: 1965-01-16