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Garrison's Gorillas

TV·1967–1968·1 season, 26 episodes·ABC·War & Politics·1h

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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.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01The Big ConS01E01 · 10.0The 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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Episodes by season

Season0126Episodes1967–68Aired 10.0Season avg
  1. S01E01The Big ConSeptember 6, 1967 10.0The team's first mission is to substitute counterfeit printing plates for the real ones, which are being transported across Germany in a tan
  2. S01E02BreakoutSeptember 13, 1967The team kidnaps a German colonel's son in order to trade him for a captured resistance leader.
  3. S01E03The GrabSeptember 19, 1967In order to rescue the infant son of a defecting German scientist, the team is forced to kidnap three infants and transport them cross-count
  4. S01E04The Great TheftSeptember 26, 1967When a mission to bring back information on a new German airplane engine goes awry, Garrison decides to steal the entire engine.
  5. S01E05Now I Lay Me Down to DieOctober 3, 1967When the team rescues an Allied agent who is under interrogation at a German hospital, not only is Goniff captured but they find out that th
  6. S01E06The Deadly MasqueradeOctober 10, 1967It was hard enough teaching Goniff to masquerade as an international playboy whom he resembles, but then the team has to rescue him from gan
  7. S01E07the ExpendablesOctober 17, 1967After several failed missions, team received a new mission from major Richards. Although garrison strongly opposed it, it was ineffective. G
  8. S01E0848 Hours to DoomsdayOctober 24, 1967The team has only 48 hours to recover important microfilm hidden in a painting in a Dutch museum.
  9. S01E09Banker's HoursOctober 31, 1967When 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.
  10. S01E10Thieves' HolidayNovember 7, 1967In 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.
  11. S01E1120 Gallons to KillNovember 14, 1967When 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.
  12. S01E12Operation HellfireNovember 21, 1967In order to better complete the task, garrison asked fleig of the arson investigation team of the Chicago police department to join the oper
  13. S01E13Black MarketNovember 28, 1967The team is assigned to infiltrate a gang of Italian black marketeers who are hijacking Allied supply trucks.
  14. S01E14The Great Crime WaveDecember 5, 1967The team stages a crime wave to keep the German authorities busy while Garrison plants explosives to destroy a cache of gold.
  15. S01E15Friendly EnemiesDecember 19, 1967The team helps a group of Americans escape from a prison camp in Italy by sowing dissension between the Germans and Italians.
  16. S01E16Run From DeathDecember 26, 1967A French nun convinces the team to transport four orphans and a dog back to England with them.
  17. S01E17The Magnificent ForgerJanuary 2, 1968The 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 sc
  18. S01E18The Death SentenceJanuary 9, 1968When Garrison is charged with cowardice and desertion, the team goes into action to find out the truth.
  19. S01E19War GamesJanuary 16, 1968While rescuing Allied prisoners behind enemy lines, Garrison finds out from an old friend how to destroy a huge German artillery piece that
  20. S01E20The Big LieJanuary 23, 1968The 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 t
  21. S01E21Ride of TerrorJanuary 30, 1968The 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
  22. S01E22War and CrimeFebruary 13, 1968Garrison's plan to substitute a convict in New York for a lookalike German field marshal goes awry when the convict escapes from prison.
  23. S01E23The Plot to KillFebruary 20, 1968The 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 awr
  24. S01E24The Frame-UpFebruary 27, 1968A con woman is temporarily brought in to replace a wounded Chief and pull off a con at a French casino.
  25. S01E25The War DiamondsMarch 5, 1968The team goes to Switzerland to recover industrial diamonds that were stolen from a German train.
  26. S01E26Time BombMarch 12, 1968The team must enter a room with an unexploded bomb in order to crack a safe containing a vital sample of heavy water.

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