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Redcap

All Episodes 1964 - 1966

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  • 1964-10-16T23:00:00Z
  • 1h
  • 1d 2h (26 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Associated British Picture Corporation
  • Drama
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.

26 episodes

Series Premiere

1964-10-16T23:00:00Z

1x01 It's What Comes After

Series Premiere

1x01 It's What Comes After

  • 1964-10-16T23:00:00Z1h

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.

1964-10-23T23:00:00Z

1x02 A Town Called Love

1x02 A Town Called Love

  • 1964-10-23T23:00:00Z1h

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.

1964-10-31T00:00:00Z

1x03 Epitaph for a Sweat

1x03 Epitaph for a Sweat

  • 1964-10-31T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1964-11-07T00:00:00Z

1x04 Misfire

1x04 Misfire

  • 1964-11-07T00:00:00Z1h

1x05 Corporal McCann's Private War

  • 1964-11-14T00:00:00Z1h

1964-11-21T00:00:00Z

1x06 The Orderly Officer

1x06 The Orderly Officer

  • 1964-11-21T00:00:00Z1h

1964-11-28T00:00:00Z

1x07 Night Watch

1x07 Night Watch

  • 1964-11-28T00:00:00Z1h

1964-12-05T00:00:00Z

1x08 The Boys of B Company

1x08 The Boys of B Company

  • 1964-12-05T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1964-12-12T00:00:00Z

1x09 A Regiment of the Line

1x09 A Regiment of the Line

  • 1964-12-12T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1964-12-19T00:00:00Z

1x10 The Man They Did

1x10 The Man They Did

  • 1964-12-19T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1965-01-02T00:00:00Z

1x11 A Question of Initiative

1x11 A Question of Initiative

  • 1965-01-02T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1965-01-09T00:00:00Z

1x12 A Place of Refuge

1x12 A Place of Refuge

  • 1965-01-09T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1965-01-16T00:00:00Z

1x13 The Patrol

1x13 The Patrol

  • 1965-01-16T00:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1966-04-01T23:00:00Z

2x01 Crime Passionel

Season Premiere

2x01 Crime Passionel

  • 1966-04-01T23:00:00Z1h

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.

1966-04-08T23:00:00Z

2x02 The Pride of the Regiment

2x02 The Pride of the Regiment

  • 1966-04-08T23:00:00Z1h

1966-04-15T23:00:00Z

2x03 The Killer

2x03 The Killer

  • 1966-04-15T23:00:00Z1h

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

1966-04-22T23:00:00Z

2x04 Buckingham Palace

2x04 Buckingham Palace

  • 1966-04-22T23:00:00Z1h

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.

1966-04-29T23:00:00Z

2x05 Rough Justice

2x05 Rough Justice

  • 1966-04-29T23:00:00Z1h

1966-05-06T23:00:00Z

2x06 The Moneylenders

2x06 The Moneylenders

  • 1966-05-06T23:00:00Z1h

1966-05-13T23:00:00Z

2x07 Strictly by the Book

2x07 Strictly by the Book

  • 1966-05-13T23:00:00Z1h

1966-05-20T23:00:00Z

2x08 Peterson's Private Army

2x08 Peterson's Private Army

  • 1966-05-20T23:00:00Z1h

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

1966-05-27T23:00:00Z

2x09 Stag Party

2x09 Stag Party

  • 1966-05-27T23:00:00Z1h

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.

1966-06-03T23:00:00Z

2x10 An Ambush Among Friends

2x10 An Ambush Among Friends

  • 1966-06-03T23:00:00Z1h

1966-06-10T23:00:00Z

2x11 The Alibi

2x11 The Alibi

  • 1966-06-10T23:00:00Z1h

1966-06-17T23:00:00Z

2x12 The Proper Charlie

2x12 The Proper Charlie

  • 1966-06-17T23:00:00Z1h

1966-06-24T23:00:00Z

2x13 Information Received

2x13 Information Received

  • 1966-06-24T23:00:00Z1h

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.

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