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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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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Reviews

washburnjm I was 11 when it came out like some here. I was caught up in the opening theme song and Chief. However, watching 5 years of Combat with GG having a similar theme of defeating the Nazis left me lukewarm about the show. It definitely had its great moments, but similar background music to Combat kept me wishing Combat hadn't been canceled. It is now on YouTube and probably most of the episodes you can still see. I don't recall, seeing it was 50 years ago, but I believe I watched most of the episodes. But time to move on from killing more Germans.
Jimmy Yu Maybe it is a normal TV Programe in the States, but in China, almost everybody know it. It was the second American TV/Movie played in China. Even the famous TV program like prison break, 24 hours could not catch up with it.The character of Actor and Goniff are my best favor. The Chinese dubbing of five person are very good.Although it was played before 20 years, but they still have plenty of fans in China. There is a funny story. In the year of the first play, plenty of insurance cabinet steal cases happened. It was said that the theft were influenced by the TV program.I have bought DVD version, but it is not clear enough. So, does anyone know where can bought the DVD-9 standard disc? Thanks
verbusen I was really wanting to watch this show and was thrilled that I found it through a collector. OK so how did it measure up? First let me say that I like drama in a war setting, All Quiet On The Western Front comes to my mind as a favorite, Hell Is For Heroes as another not that they are in the same league but thats a cross section of my tastes for war movies. For TV shows Combat! is most widely known and what I watched in reruns in the 70's as a pre-teen. For the record I hated Combat! as it was lame, you knew certain characters would live, so whats the point, I realized this as a youth. Garrisons Gorillas (notice they didn't use the term Guerilla) is basically a mix of mostly the Dirty Dozen (Telly Savalez was in the pilot and the redone pilot first episode), mixed with a bit of maybe Mission Impossible. It's extremely light on character development, it's full of action (the cowboys vs Indians action), and it's tedious. It has no redeeming place for a war film lover like myself, it's to the point that it's dare I say it, like Combat! boring. Combat! at least had it's character interaction, this is very devoid of good dialog, "lets go get in the back, you know something? It's gonna be light soon", as examples, it's just really lame action packaged in a WW2 TV show. The whole show is totally implausible and it is not helped that we never see any one higher than the Officer in charged handing out the missions, we just take his word that he got them, it's lazy writing (how about the officer questioning any of this? Some 12 O'Clock High TV show dialog would have worked here very well). How not to write a WW2 or war drama should use Garrisons Gorillas as an example. Definitely targeted for youths and I doubt even they would have liked it after 5 or so episodes.
SavhCaro I watched the show when it was first on TV when I was 12 & fell in love with the characters. My favorite was Chief & he became a teen idol during that time. The stories were good, the humor I loved! Even my parents enjoyed it. The TV show was shown on GoodTime TV about 4 years ago and I tried to tape all the episodes. For the time period that the show was made the sets were OK. The costumes/uniforms were great. Loved the give and take between the characters. I would recommend this to anybody! It was a take-off from the movies but it was still well done. Comparing it to today's TV shows is not fair. Acting, special effects and such have come along way in 40 plus years. The main story was that people could change and improve themselves especially when working for the greater good. Many times the guys could have escaped but chose to do their job and honor their commitment and the Warden. It had a great theme running through the entire show.