Garrison's Gorillas

Garrison's Gorillas

1967
Garrison's Gorillas
Garrison's Gorillas

Garrison's Gorillas

7.8 | en | War & Politics

Garrison's Gorillas is an ABC TV series broadcast from 1967 to 1968; a total of 26 hour-long episodes were produced. It was inspired by the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen, which featured a similar scenario of training Allied prisoners for World War II military missions. Garrison's Gorillas was canceled at the close of its first season and replaced by The Mod Squad in 1968. It managed to gather a cult following in China in the 1980s.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP26  Time Bomb
Mar. 12,1968
Time Bomb

The team must enter a room with an unexploded bomb in order to crack a safe containing a vital sample of heavy water.

EP25  The War Diamonds
Mar. 05,1968
The War Diamonds

The team goes to Switzerland to recover industrial diamonds that were stolen from a German train.

EP24  The Frame-Up
Feb. 27,1968
The Frame-Up

A con woman is temporarily brought in to replace a wounded Chief and pull off a con at a French casino.

EP23  The Plot to Kill
Feb. 20,1968
The Plot to Kill

The team accompanies Keeler to the meeting of German officers where he is to give the go-ahead on the plot to kill Hitler, but things go awry again when Keeler is killed.

EP22  War and Crime
Feb. 13,1968
War and Crime

Garrison's plan to substitute a convict in New York for a lookalike German field marshal goes awry when the convict escapes from prison.

EP21  Ride of Terror
Jan. 30,1968
Ride of Terror

The American colonel that the team is to rescue from a prison camp in France turns out to have been the warden of a hellhole of an American prison where Chief was an inmate.

EP20  The Big Lie
Jan. 23,1968
The Big Lie

The mission is to convince a German officer that a big Allied attack is already in progress, in a location other than where it will really take place.

EP19  War Games
Jan. 16,1968
War Games

While rescuing Allied prisoners behind enemy lines, Garrison finds out from an old friend how to destroy a huge German artillery piece that has been wreaking havoc among the Allied forces.

EP18  The Death Sentence
Jan. 09,1968
The Death Sentence

When Garrison is charged with cowardice and desertion, the team goes into action to find out the truth.

EP17  The Magnificent Forger
Jan. 02,1968
The Magnificent Forger

The team is sent to replace a list of Nazi collaborators with a list of Allied agents, but they need the assistance of a forger who's too scared to complete the job.

EP16  Run From Death
Dec. 26,1967
Run From Death

A French nun convinces the team to transport four orphans and a dog back to England with them.

EP15  Friendly Enemies
Dec. 19,1967
Friendly Enemies

The team helps a group of Americans escape from a prison camp in Italy by sowing dissension between the Germans and Italians.

EP14  The Great Crime Wave
Dec. 05,1967
The Great Crime Wave

The team stages a crime wave to keep the German authorities busy while Garrison plants explosives to destroy a cache of gold.

EP13  Black Market
Nov. 28,1967
Black Market

The team is assigned to infiltrate a gang of Italian black marketeers who are hijacking Allied supply trucks.

EP12  Operation Hellfire
Nov. 21,1967
Operation Hellfire

In order to better complete the task, garrison asked fleig of the arson investigation team of the Chicago police department to join the operation and assist GG to go to the university town of Windsor in Germany to obtain information. However, due to the police identity of freig, GG was full of hostility and distrust.

EP11  20 Gallons to Kill
Nov. 14,1967
20 Gallons to Kill

When the team's plane is shot down over Yugoslavia on the way back from a mission, they decide to help a local group of resistance fighters.

EP10  Thieves' Holiday
Nov. 07,1967
Thieves' Holiday

In France to get information on German defenses with the help of a double agent, the cons decide to go off on their own and rob a museum.

EP9  Banker's Hours
Oct. 31,1967
Banker's Hours

When another con is recruited from prison to assist the team in robbing a German bank, they soon suspect that he has a plan of his own.

EP8  48 Hours to Doomsday
Oct. 24,1967
48 Hours to Doomsday

The team has only 48 hours to recover important microfilm hidden in a painting in a Dutch museum.

EP7  the Expendables
Oct. 17,1967
the Expendables

After several failed missions, team received a new mission from major Richards. Although garrison strongly opposed it, it was ineffective. Garrison and his ministry, who had a lot of worries, reached the joint site. It turned out that their task was to attract the enemy's firepower, so that the rebellious German general could escape smoothly. When team tried to break through the encirclement and prepare to return to Britain, he met major Richards. The German general was caught by the German army, and Richards came for help. team rescued the general again and returned to Britain, winning the trust and appreciation of major Richards.

EP6  The Deadly Masquerade
Oct. 10,1967
The Deadly Masquerade

It was hard enough teaching Goniff to masquerade as an international playboy whom he resembles, but then the team has to rescue him from gangsters to whom the playboy owed money.

EP5  Now I Lay Me Down to Die
Oct. 03,1967
Now I Lay Me Down to Die

When the team rescues an Allied agent who is under interrogation at a German hospital, not only is Goniff captured but they find out that the agent already spilled top secret information to the Germans.

EP4  The Great Theft
Sep. 26,1967
The Great Theft

When a mission to bring back information on a new German airplane engine goes awry, Garrison decides to steal the entire engine.

EP3  The Grab
Sep. 19,1967
The Grab

In order to rescue the infant son of a defecting German scientist, the team is forced to kidnap three infants and transport them cross-country.

EP2  Breakout
Sep. 13,1967
Breakout

The team kidnaps a German colonel's son in order to trade him for a captured resistance leader.

EP1  The Big Con
Sep. 06,1967
The Big Con

The team's first mission is to substitute counterfeit printing plates for the real ones, which are being transported across Germany in a tank.

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Synopsis

Garrison's Gorillas is an ABC TV series broadcast from 1967 to 1968; a total of 26 hour-long episodes were produced. It was inspired by the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen, which featured a similar scenario of training Allied prisoners for World War II military missions. Garrison's Gorillas was canceled at the close of its first season and replaced by The Mod Squad in 1968. It managed to gather a cult following in China in the 1980s.

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Cast

Ron Harper , Cesare Danova , Rudy Solari

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