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Garrison's Gorillas (1967)

Garrison's Gorillas poster
Genre
war television series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 26 episodes
Rating
8.1 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a US Army officer leads a team of convicts on dangerous missions behind enemy lines. Each episode follows the group as they use their criminal skills for a greater cause.

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What happens

Garrison's Gorillas is an ABC TV series originally 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. It was produced by Selmur productions which had made the war series Combat!. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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