Garrison's Gorillas (1967)
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 Big Con
Release Date: 1967-09-06The 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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Episode 2 - Breakout
Release Date: 1967-09-13The team kidnaps a German colonel's son in order to trade him for a captured resistance leader.
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Episode 3 - The Grab
Release Date: 1967-09-19In order to rescue the infant son of a defecting German scientist, the team is forced to kidnap three infants and transport them cross-country.
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Episode 4 - The Great Theft
Release Date: 1967-09-26When a mission to bring back information on a new German airplane engine goes awry, Garrison decides to steal the entire engine.
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Episode 5 - Now I Lay Me Down to Die
Release Date: 1967-10-03When 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.
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Episode 6 - The Deadly Masquerade
Release Date: 1967-10-10It 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.
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Episode 7 - the Expendables
Release Date: 1967-10-17After 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.
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Episode 8 - 48 Hours to Doomsday
Release Date: 1967-10-24The team has only 48 hours to recover important microfilm hidden in a painting in a Dutch museum.
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Episode 9 - Banker's Hours
Release Date: 1967-10-31When 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.
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Episode 10 - Thieves' Holiday
Release Date: 1967-11-07In 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.
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Episode 11 - 20 Gallons to Kill
Release Date: 1967-11-14When 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.
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Episode 12 - Operation Hellfire
Release Date: 1967-11-21In 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.
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Episode 13 - Black Market
Release Date: 1967-11-28The team is assigned to infiltrate a gang of Italian black marketeers who are hijacking Allied supply trucks.
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Episode 14 - The Great Crime Wave
Release Date: 1967-12-05The team stages a crime wave to keep the German authorities busy while Garrison plants explosives to destroy a cache of gold.
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Episode 15 - Friendly Enemies
Release Date: 1967-12-19The team helps a group of Americans escape from a prison camp in Italy by sowing dissension between the Germans and Italians.
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Episode 16 - Run From Death
Release Date: 1967-12-26A French nun convinces the team to transport four orphans and a dog back to England with them.
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Episode 17 - The Magnificent Forger
Release Date: 1968-01-02The 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.
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Episode 18 - The Death Sentence
Release Date: 1968-01-09When Garrison is charged with cowardice and desertion, the team goes into action to find out the truth.
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Episode 19 - War Games
Release Date: 1968-01-16While 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.
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Episode 20 - The Big Lie
Release Date: 1968-01-23The 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.
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Episode 21 - Ride of Terror
Release Date: 1968-01-30The 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.
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Episode 22 - War and Crime
Release Date: 1968-02-13Garrison's plan to substitute a convict in New York for a lookalike German field marshal goes awry when the convict escapes from prison.
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Episode 23 - The Plot to Kill
Release Date: 1968-02-20The 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.
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Episode 24 - The Frame-Up
Release Date: 1968-02-27A con woman is temporarily brought in to replace a wounded Chief and pull off a con at a French casino.
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Episode 25 - The War Diamonds
Release Date: 1968-03-05The team goes to Switzerland to recover industrial diamonds that were stolen from a German train.
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Episode 26 - Time Bomb
Release Date: 1968-03-12The team must enter a room with an unexploded bomb in order to crack a safe containing a vital sample of heavy water.