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Redcap is a British television series produced by ABC Weekend Television for ITV. John Thaw stars as Sergeant John Mann, a member of the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police. It ran for 26 episodes over two series 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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- E1 It's What Comes AfterNext upOct 17, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Keith Barron (Captain Lynne), Miranda Connell (Mrs Lynne), David Battley (Corporal), Tenniel Evans (Medical Officer), John Welsh (Commanding Officer), Mary Webster (Mrs Wells), Ronald Bridges (Private Jones), Kenneth Colley (Private Bolt)
- E2 A Town Called LoveOct 24, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Peter Copley (Colonel Matherson), Gwendolyn Watts (Vera / Gerda), Michael Robbins (Private Pendlebury), Glynn Edwards (Sergeant Coulter), Malcolm Douglas (Captain Frost), Tony Steedman (Major Kalashneekov), Yootha Joyce (Magda), Garfield Morgan (Bob McGregor)
- E3 Epitaph for a SweatOct 31, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Leonard Rossiter (Sergeant Rolfe), Ian McShane (Sapper Russell), Kenneth Farrington (Sapper Baker), John Noakes (Sapper Evans), Roger Heathcott (Sapper Morse), John Horsley (Major Coulter), Mike Pratt (Sergeant Bailey), Norman Florence (Assistant Superintendent Yacoub)
- E4 MisfireNov 7, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
Mann's suspicions are aroused when a soldier confesses to a crime he obviously didn't commit. Mann's determination to prove the man's innocence unearths an unusual love interest.
Guest stars: Gary Bond (Brian Staples), Arthur Lovegrove (RSM Staples), Diana Coupland (Iris Pearson), John Collin (Inspector Parish), Brian Badcoe (DS Gooseman), Arthur Pentelow (LC Hilden), Douglas Harris (Sgt Lackie), Michael Blakemore (Captain Jameson)
- E5 Corporal McCann's Private WarNov 14, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
Detailed to investigate a charge that a soldier in Cyprus is guilty black-market activities – and suspected murder – Mann finds that he needs his wits about him to track down a determined criminal.
Guest stars: Warren Mitchell (Inspector Gregoriou), Ian MacNaughton (Corporal McCann), John Ringham (Colonel Morris), Jerome Willis (Lovelock), Maria Antippas (Ariane), Lloyd Reckord (Colonel Mahadi), Arthur White (Jenkins), Alister Williamson (RSM)
- E6 The Orderly OfficerNov 21, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
Investigating a difficult case, Mann finds his movements restrained by 'internal arrangement'. Much to the ire of a superior officer, he skillfully sidesteps his orders – and makes a surprising discovery.
Guest stars: Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Colonel), Barry Keegan (Sgt Greatorex), Mark Burns (Captain The Honourable Ian Loder), Jack Smethurst (Sgt Cartwright), Bernard Lloyd (Sgt Jones), Giles Block (2nd Lt Harry Barr), Michael Beint (Police Sgt Yeo), Colin Rix (Staff Sgt Merritt)
- E7 Night WatchNov 28, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
When a regiment returns from Borneo and reports that their unit is being haunted by a ghost, Mann turns ghostbuster to allay their fears – but investigating ghost stories can prove ill-advised.
Guest stars: Joseph O'Conor (CO), Allan Cuthbertson (Major Stokely), Brian Wilde (Graham), Griffith Davies (Molt), Hywel Bennett (Brown), Fredric Abbott (Sgt Fellowes), Robin Kildare (Richards), Jerry Martin (Robinson)
- E8 The Boys of B CompanyDec 5, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
At a base where boys are trained as would-be soldiers, one nearly commits suicide and another several petty crimes in the nearby town. Mann learns that an overzealous young officer may have pushed them to the breaking point.
Guest stars: Geoffrey Lumsden, Richard O'Sullivan, Bryan Mosley
- E9 A Regiment of the LineDec 12, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
- E10 The Man They DidDec 19, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
- E11 A Question of InitiativeJan 2, 1965 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
- E12 A Place of RefugeJan 9, 1965 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
- E13 The PatrolJan 16, 1965 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Ewan Hooper, Graham Crowden, Robin Bailey, David Burke, Roland Curram
Cast & crew
Created by Jack Bell
John Thaw
