West Point graduate First Lieutenant Craig
Garrison, coordinates a group of four men
[a.k.a. "Garrison’s Gorillas"] who were
released from stateside prisons with the
promise of a Presidential pardon. The deal?
If they volunteered to go behind the lines
during World War II and thwart or kill
members of the Axis powers in Germany and
Italy they would earn their freedom.
Headquartered in England, Lt. Garrison's
team of mercenary commandos included: Actor,
a suave Italian-American con man; Chief, a
Native-American Indian, proficient with a
switchblade knife; Casino, a safecracker;
and Goniff, a Yiddish speaking cat burglar.
Among their many missions, Garrison's Gorillas:
- Travel to Switzerland to recover industrial diamonds
- Plot to kill Hitler
- Rescue an American Colonel from a prison camp
- Gather evidence to disprove claims of cowardice
directed at Lt. Garrison
- Help a French nun transport orphans back to England
- Stop an Italian gang from hijacking Allied supply trucks
- Help a group of Yugoslavian resistance fighters
- Steal the plans for a new German airplane
- Recover microfilm housed in a Dutch museum
- Smuggle the infant son of a defecting German scientist
- Substitute counterfeit printing plates for real ones
- Trade the son of a German officer for a resistance leader
- Rob a German bank
- Pull off a con game in a French Casino
- Crack a safe to get valuable Heavy Water samples
TRIVIA NOTE:
Created by Selmur Productions, the producers
of COMBAT!, the series was inspired by the
1967 film The Dirty Dozen. Garrison's
Gorillas was canceled and replaced by THE
MOD SQUAD in 1968.
