TV series
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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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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Episode 1
The team's first mission is to substitute counterfeit printing plates for the real ones, which are being transported across Germany in a tank.
Directed by Joseph SargentWritten by David KarpGuest stars Telly Savalas, Gilbert Roland
Episode 2
The team kidnaps a German colonel's son in order to trade him for a captured resistance leader.
Written by Paul PlaydonGuest stars Larry Thor
Episode 3
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.
Directed by Nicholas ColasantoGuest stars Jeff Corey, Berry Kroeger
Episode 4
When a mission to bring back information on a new German airplane engine goes awry, Garrison decides to steal the entire engine.
Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars Wesley Lau, Jack Klugman, Booth Colman
Episode 5
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.
Directed by Gerald MayerGuest stars Émile Genest, Frank Marth, Malachi Throne, Celia Lovsky, Noel Drayton
Episode 6
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.
Written by Norman HudisGuest stars Robin Hughes, John Abbott
Episode 7
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.
Directed by Nicholas ColasantoWritten by Alan CaillouGuest stars Michael Conrad, Will Geer, Michael Pataki
Episode 8
The team has only 48 hours to recover important microfilm hidden in a painting in a Dutch museum.
Directed by Georg FenadyWritten by Edward J. LaksoGuest stars Peter Brocco, Glenn Corbett, Curt Lowens
Episode 9
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.
Guest stars Barry Sullivan
Episode 10
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.
Guest stars Frank Gorshin
Episode 11
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.
Directed by Nicholas ColasantoGuest stars Eduardo Ciannelli, John Saxon
Episode 12
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.
Written by Edward J. LaksoGuest stars Harold Gould, Pat Renella, Curt Lowens
Episode 13
The team is assigned to infiltrate a gang of Italian black marketeers who are hijacking Allied supply trucks.
Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars Jamie Farr, Roger Perry, Mike Farrell, John Carter, Fabrizio Mioni
Episode 14
The team stages a crime wave to keep the German authorities busy while Garrison plants explosives to destroy a cache of gold.
Directed by Nicholas ColasantoWritten by Norman HudisGuest stars Lorna Thayer, Henry Beckman, Oscar Beregi Jr., Robert Donner
Episode 15
The team helps a group of Americans escape from a prison camp in Italy by sowing dissension between the Germans and Italians.
Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars William Campbell, Larry Storch, Horst Ebersberg
Episode 16
A French nun convinces the team to transport four orphans and a dog back to England with them.
Directed by Georg FenadyWritten by Paul PlaydonGuest stars Kevin McCarthy, Norbert Meisel
Episode 17
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.
Guest stars Jack Hogan, Richard Bakalyan, Skip Homeier, John Carter, Steven Marlo
Episode 18
When Garrison is charged with cowardice and desertion, the team goes into action to find out the truth.
Directed by Nicholas ColasantoGuest stars Julie Harris, Timothy Scott
Episode 19
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.
Written by Paul PlaydonGuest stars Casey Kasem, Stanley Adams, Joe Maross
Episode 20
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.
Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars Rudolph Anders, Phillip Pine, Ivan Triesault
Episode 21
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.
Written by William FrougGuest stars Patric Knowles, Claude Akins, Curt Lowens
Episode 22
Garrison's plan to substitute a convict in New York for a lookalike German field marshal goes awry when the convict escapes from prison.
Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars Peter Haskell, Jamie Farr, Oscar Beregi Jr., Richard Kiley, Steven Marlo, Joseph Mell, Sheila Larken
Episode 23
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.
Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars Faith Domergue, Peter Haskell, Richard Kiley
Episode 24
A con woman is temporarily brought in to replace a wounded Chief and pull off a con at a French casino.
Written by Henry SlesarGuest stars Gena Rowlands, H.M. Wynant
Episode 25
The team goes to Switzerland to recover industrial diamonds that were stolen from a German train.
Guest stars Ted Knight, Eric Braeden, Michael Forest
Episode 26
The team must enter a room with an unexploded bomb in order to crack a safe containing a vital sample of heavy water.
Directed by Georg FenadyWritten by Paul PlaydonGuest stars Martin Kosleck, Peter Haskell, Horst Ebersberg, Ivan Triesault
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