Redcap

Overview

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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Episodes

S01E01 It's What Comes After

October 17, 1964 60 min
Mann'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.

S01E02 A Town Called Love

October 24, 1964 60 min
In 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...

S01E03 Epitaph for a Sweat

October 31, 1964 60 min
In 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.

S01E04 Misfire

November 7, 1964 60 min

S01E05 Corporal McCann's Private War

November 14, 1964 60 min

S01E06 The Orderly Officer

November 21, 1964 60 min

S01E07 Night Watch

November 28, 1964 60 min

S01E08 The Boys of B Company

December 5, 1964 60 min
At 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...

S01E09 A Regiment of the Line

December 12, 1964 60 min
A 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...

S01E10 The Man They Did

December 19, 1964 60 min
When 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.

S01E11 A Question of Initiative

January 2, 1965 60 min
When 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...

S01E12 A Place of Refuge

January 9, 1965 60 min
In 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.

S01E13 The Patrol

January 16, 1965 60 min

Cast

John Thaw
John Thaw
Sergeant John Mann
Ian McShane
Ian McShane
Sapper Russell

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