Garrison's Gorillas
The adventures of a group of convicts recruited into the U.S. Army by the offer of a post-war parole. Commanded by West Point graduate, Lt. Garrison, the "Gorillas" function as commandos behind Nazi lines.
- 1967-1968
- 1 season
- ABC
- Action & Adventure, Drama
The adventures of a group of convicts recruited into the U.S. Army by the offer of a post-war parole. Commanded by West Point graduate, Lt. Garrison, the "Gorillas" function as commandos behind Nazi lines.
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1967 - 1968
Episode 1
The Big Con
Wed, Sep 6, 1967 60 mins
Lt. Craig Garrison is assigned to take 4 convicts into Nazi occupied France to steal a set of printing plates for U.S. Twenty dollar bills from the Nazis and replace them with another set marked so that U.S. Agents can follow the distribution network for the phony cash and roll up a Nazi spy ring. One of the convicts tries to spoil the plan.
Episode 2
Breakout
Wed, Sep 13, 1967 60 mins
The team's attempt to break a Resistance leader out of a German prison is thwarted by an attempted prison break. Garrison decides to kidnap the prison commander's son and trade him for their man.
Episode 3
The Grab
Tue, Sep 19, 1967 60 mins
A defecting German scientist won't talk to the allies unless they rescue his infant son. Garrison's team is sent to bring the boy out and find three infants being held hostage, with no way of identifying the right one.
Episode 4
Banker's Hours
Tue, Sep 26, 1967 60 mins
Garrison recruits a bank robber named Gus to help them rob a bank. The only problem is, Casino knows him and not fondly.
Episode 5
48 Hours to Doomsday
Tue, Oct 3, 1967 60 mins
Art is being taken from a Dutch museum and moved to Germany. One of the paintings has a microdot containing German troop movements. The team has 48 hours to steal the painting back.
Episode 6
The Great Theft
Tue, Oct 10, 1967 60 mins
The team takes an aeronautical engineer into occupied territory to examine the engine of a crashed German jet. When the expert is killed, Garrison decides to steal the whole engine and take it with them.
Episode 7
The Deadly Masquerade
Tue, Oct 17, 1967 60 mins
Goniff is sent to assume the identity of a man who's been selling allied secrets to the Germans, who was recently killed. They want to give his contacts the wrong information. But what they don't know is that the man owes some gangsters and they send an order to find him.
Episode 8
Now I Lay Me Down to Die
Tue, Oct 24, 1967 60 mins
Goniff is captured when the team tries to rescue a captured OSS agent. Unfortunately the agent has already broken and spilled all his top secret information to the Germans.
Episode 9
Operation Hellfire
Tue, Oct 31, 1967 60 mins
The team's latest assignment has them trying to set fire to a place. And to help them with it Garrison brings a police man who specializes in arson. And the man doesn't get along with the guys.
Episode 10
Thieves' Holiday
Tue, Nov 7, 1967 60 mins
The team goes on a mission. They meet their contact, someone who works undercover with the Germans. But while Garrison is away, Actor runs into an associate who thinks they are there to steal something he is planning to. He threatens to turn them in unless they work together. They do the job but the guy double crosses them so they are arrested. When Garrison learns of this, their contact tries to get them out. But the guys escape but before they leave their contact shows up at the station and over hear his conversation with the police and they learn where his allegiances lie.
Episode 11
20 Gallons to Kill
Tue, Nov 14, 1967 60 mins
The team completes a successful mission only to have their plane shot down over Yugoslavia while flying home. While trying to get back to allied lines, they run into partisans who need help.
Episode 12
Friendly Enemies
Tue, Nov 21, 1967 60 mins
The team is sent to rescue some Americans who are in an Italian prison camp. Chief goes in as another prisoner while the others pose as Germans visiting the camp. When Chief learns that most of the prisoners are too sick or injured for their original plan to break them out and when he gets word to them they have to come up with another plan. Garrison decides to use the tension between the Italians and the Germans by getting them to fight each other so that they can get the prisoners out.
Episode 13
Black Market
Tue, Nov 28, 1967 60 mins
Italian black marketeers are hijacking allied supplies and selling them to the Germans. Garrison's team set up as a competing group of hijackers in order to draw them out.
Episode 14
The Great Crime Wave
Tue, Dec 5, 1967 60 mins
Garrison's team creates a crime wave to keep the German's attention off of their leader. Meanwhile Garrison plants explosives to blow up an underground target that the allies can't take out by conventional bombing.
Episode 15
The Magnificent Forger
Tue, Dec 19, 1967 60 mins
The team has to get a forger to sign some documents behind enemy lines. But when the forger is killed another forger is brought but he is not exactly a pro and is not brave. So when he freaks out the team has to try again and they succeed but the man is captured, after doing the job. Now they have to decide whether to rescue him which will be extremely difficult or take him out so he won't talk.
Episode 16
The Expendables
Tue, Dec 26, 1967 60 mins
The team who after just completing a mission, are forced to work with a major who is trying to get a German officer who is defecting. But the major really wants to use them as a decoy so that he could get the German through. But they make it. But the major's team doesn't and the German's been captured, so they have to rescue the German.
Episode 17
War Games
Tue, Jan 2, 1968 60 mins
The team is on a mission to locate the position of some German artillery. So Garrison sends Actor and Casino to find the info, while he,Goniff, and Chief await for them to contact them. They contact them but they're interrupted so Garrison and the others get away. They try to find them but apparently they went ahead. Garrison and the others do the same and the run into an MP transporting some prisoners. They bring them along with them. Garrison thinks the artillery is nearby so he tries to find them and they learn just who the ones they are with are.
Episode 18
Run from Death
Tue, Jan 9, 1968 60 mins
When the team parachutes behind enemy lines they discover that the agent they were sent to retrieve is already dead. A postulant nun persuades them to help her rescue the four children and a dog in her care.
Episode 19
The Death Sentence
Fri, Jan 19, 1968 60 mins
After the team rescues some P.O.W.'s, one of the men they rescued claims Garrison is a deserter. Garrison is then court-martialed. When asked Garrison doesn't remember the incident. The team goes under ground and tries to help him.
Episode 20
The Big Lie
Tue, Jan 23, 1968 60 mins
The allies plan an Italian attack. Unfortunately the Germans have captured an agent who know the details. The team try to con a German Officer into believing the offensive has already started in a different location.
Episode 21
Ride of Terror
Tue, Jan 30, 1968 60 mins
The team is sent to break out a Colonel who was captured and is now in a prison camp. Garrison, Chief, and Goniff go in as prisoners, while Actor and Casino go in as Italian laborers. When they meet the Colonel, Chief knows him. When Garrison tells the Colonel that they are here to get him out. The Colonel says he already has a plan of his own. But when they try to implement it, the ones who go out first are killed because the Germans knew if the plan. Garrison tries to find another way but the Colonel doesn't trust Garrison, so Garrison tells him that if he can't get him out, his orders are to take him out because he passed some important information and it's important that the Germans shouldn't know that he did.
Episode 22
War and Crime
Tue, Feb 13, 1968 60 mins
Garrison and his men are sent to eavesdrop on a meeting of some high ranking Germans among whom is a Field Marshall who is one of Hitler's confidants. He shows them the man's picture and Casino says that's a mobster named Frank Keeler who is in prison in the States. The meeting begins without the Field Marshall and Garrison listens in and just as the man arrives he gets called away. The meeting goes on and Garrison overhears them say they are planning to assassinate Hitler. It's obvious they were hoping to get support from the Field Marshall which is highly unlikely. So Garrison decides if Frank Keeler looks like him why not get him to fill in for the man and give his OK. So Garrison and his men head for New York where Keeler is imprisoned but Keeler escapes and Garrison tries to find him.
Episode 23
The Plot to Kill
Tue, Feb 20, 1968 60 mins
Garrison is sent to eavesdrop on a meeting that several high ranking generals will be attending. And among them is a Field Marshall who is one of Hitler's confidantes. Garrison shows the guys the man's photo and Casino says he looks like a criminal he knows, Frank Keeler who is in an American prison. Garrison eavesdrops on the meeting and the Field Marshall is called away before he could join it. Garrison's overhears the conversation the rest are having and hears that they are planning to assassinate Hitler. Garrison then reports to his superiors. They assume the men were hoping to get the Field Marshall's support and they think he won't. So Garrison decides to get Frank Keeler to replace the Field Marshall and give his approval and they will assassinate Hitler. So Garrison goes to the US to talk to him but problem is that Keeler escaped.
Episode 24
The Frame-Up
Tue, Feb 27, 1968 60 mins
Garrison's mission is to discredit one of Hitler's trusted Generals by making it appear he's been selling information to the Allies. He hopes to do this by exploiting his weaknesses one of which is women so he brings in a female con artist known as the Duchess. And his other weakness is gambling. And he's going to do that in Cannes so Actor and the Duchess pose as an Italian couple. Problem is the owner of the casino recognizes her and threatens to blow the mission unless they eliminate his competition.
Episode 25
The War Diamonds
Tue, Mar 5, 1968 60 mins
Garrison Is sent to get some diamonds that the German are planning to use for their weapons. They try to get them as they are being transported but someone got to the diamonds first. Garrison learns that a jewel thief stole them and is offering them to the highest bidder. They go to Switzerland. Garrison contacts the man and makes his offer, and he tells Garrison he will think about it. The man then contacts Frank Miller a man representing the Germans. He accepts his offer and they agree to a meeting. But the man is killed. Garrison goes to the morgue and finds something in his possessions that tells him the diamonds are in a safe deposit box, so they plan to steal them. But what they don't know is that Miller is planning the same thing and he brings in some professionals to help him. And they both go in at the same time.
Episode 26
Time Bomb
Tue, Mar 12, 1968 60 mins
Garrison is sent to rescue a German scientist who is working on the A bomb. But there's an air raid and the scientist is killed. Before dying he tells Garrison of something in a safe in the building that can help them figure out the bomb, but the building is being evacuated. Before leaving Garrison overhears a phone call calling for the bomb disposal unit because one of the bombs didn't blow up and it is by the safe. So Garrison grabs the two members of the unit and goes with them. While Casino tries to open the safe, Garrison tells the men to defuse the bomb but the one who knows how refuses. Another member of the unit agrees to, but he has only seen it done, not actually defused one.
