Redcap
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.
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.
A member of an elite commando unit is accused of killing his own fellow soldiers while on dangerous missions.
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.
Sgt.Mann visits a tough Scottish regiment in jungle training and tries to stop a massacre.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Release | 1964-10-17 |
| Producer | Associated British Picture Corporation |