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Redcap
1964 - 1966 6.0 (1 votes) 2 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
ITV1

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.

Top Cast

John Thaw
John Thaw

Sergeant John Mann

Ian McShane
Ian McShane

Sapper Russell

Seasons

Season 1 (1964)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: It's What Comes After
1964-10-17

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: A Town Called Love
1964-10-24

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 to bring him back.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Epitaph for a Sweat
1964-10-31

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Misfire
1964-11-07

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Corporal McCann's Private War
1964-11-14

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Orderly Officer
1964-11-21

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Night Watch
1964-11-28

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Boys of B Company
1964-12-05

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 to the breaking point.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: A Regiment of the Line
1964-12-12

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 responsible.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Man They Did
1964-12-19

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: A Question of Initiative
1965-01-02

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 base and it's personnel with local politics.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: A Place of Refuge
1965-01-09

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Patrol
1965-01-16

Runtime: 60 min
Season 2 (1966)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Crime Passionel
1966-04-02

Mann investigates how and why a soldier murdered his sergeant in the middle of a crowded mess tent, and gets conflicting accounts from the witnesses.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Pride of the Regiment
1966-04-09

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Killer
1966-04-16

A member of an elite commando unit is accused of killing his own fellow soldiers while on dangerous missions.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Buckingham Palace
1966-04-23

A barracks room card game called "Buckingham Palace" has only matches for stakes, but soon turns to Murder,blackmail and espionage when a shady local club proprietor is involved.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Rough Justice
1966-04-30

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Moneylenders
1966-05-07

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Strictly by the Book
1966-05-14

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Peterson's Private Army
1966-05-21

Sgt.Mann visits a tough Scottish regiment in jungle training and tries to stop a massacre.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Stag Party
1966-05-28

Investigting a grenade attack on British forces in Cypress, Mann finds that a hard-nosed sergeant's wife has been cheating on him with other soldiers, among them supposedly the fiancé of a local girl.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: An Ambush Among Friends
1966-06-04

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Alibi
1966-06-11

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Proper Charlie
1966-06-18

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Information Received
1966-06-25

In the final episode, hundreds of cans of petrol are being stolen at the German base. A mysterious note arrives accusing an old friend of Mann's, who is presently a security officer overlooking supplies.

Runtime: 60 min

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