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Episode
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Writer
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Director
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Original airdate
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| 1
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"It's What Comes After"
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William Emms
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Raymond Menmuir
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17 October 1964
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| Mann encounters hostility from every quarter when he investigates a rape which took place inside an army barracks. Even the victim doesn't want to help him.
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| 2
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"A Town Called Love"
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Anthony Steven (O.S. Jack Bell)
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Raymond Menmuir
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24 October 1964
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| Mann's search for a pimp who specialises in blackmailing soldiers leads him to a place that specialises in black market activity. Further investigations lead him to an unconscious woman and a vicious fight.
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| 3
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"Epitaph for a Sweat"
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Richard Harris
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Peter Graham Scott
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31 October 1964
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| Mann finds himself in Aden trying to investigate the vicious beating of an Arab worker. Encountering prejudice at every turn, he has to determine whether it was self-defence or systemised brutality.
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| 4
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"Misfire"
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Roger Marshall
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Raymond Menmuir
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7 November 1964
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| Mann is asked to make an independent inquiry into the case of a soldier who has confessed to robbery. Despite the soldier's insistence, Mann is led to believe that he is innocent. (The episode deals elliptically with homosexuality in the British military, without ever using the term.)
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| 5
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"Corporal McCann's Private War"
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Troy Kennedy Martin
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Peter Graham Scott
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14 November 1964
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| Mann is sent to Cyprus to investigate a serving soldier who has gone AWOL with three Sterling sub-machine guns and six magazines of ammo.
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| 6
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"The Orderly Officer"
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Julian Bond
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Bill Bain
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21 November 1964
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| New Year's Eve: An unpopular and weak-willed officer of the 1st Kings Own Lancers is browbeaten by a wily NCO into driving him to a party. On returning to the base, both drunk, they smash into a wall.
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| 7
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"Night Watch"
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Troy Kennedy Martin
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Bill Bain
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28 November 1964
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| Returning a deserter to a regiment that has recently returned from Borneo, Mann is concerned when he is told that his prisoner's dementia is due to the soldiers being haunted by a ghost.
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| 8
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"The Boys of B Company"
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Robert Holles
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Raymond Menmuir
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5 December 1964
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| Mann finds himself investigating a full-time cadet training unit. In the previous few weeks there has been one attempted suicide, whilst another cadet went AWOL after apparently going mad.
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| 9
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"A Regiment of the Line"
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Leon Griffiths
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Raymond Menmuir
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12 December 1964
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| Passions run high when the Queen's Own Scottish Regiment are billeted in a town in West Germany which they had to take by force during the second world war. Despite friendly overtures, it's not long before fights start breaking out.
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| 10
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"The Man They Did"
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Michael Ashe
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Guy Verney
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19 December 1964
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| A soldier dies of exhaustion on a forced march. His platoon leader believes that this may have been deliberate and, after their own investigation draws a blank, Mann is brought in to start enquiries.
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| 11
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"A Question of Initiative"
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Jeremy Paul
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Jonathan Alwyn
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2 January 1965
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| A West German civilian is the victim of a hit and run, and a car is seen speeding from the scene with soldiers on board. The local Battle Camp insists that no-one was out of barracks that night so the local police bring in the SIB.
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| 12
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"A Place of Refuge"
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Troy Kennedy Martin
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Laurence Bourne
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9 January 1965
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| What ties together the suicide of an officer and the court martial of another soldier on charges of embezzlement?
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| 13
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"The Patrol"
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Troy Kennedy Martin
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Guy Verney
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16 January 1965
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| Mann joins a patrol in Borneo to get statements from three soldiers regarding an upcoming appeal. His zeal lands him in trouble, however, when the patrol comes under fire.
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