REFERENCE: TV SERIE - GARRISON'S GORILLAS

Garrison's Gorillas - TV-Series 1967-1968
Directed by Michael Caffey and Nicholas Colasanto
USA: 26 episodes with 60’ each

Cast:
Ron Harper as Lt. Craig Garrison
Christopher Cary as Goniff
Rudy Solari as Casino
Brendon Boone as Chief
Cesare Danova as Actor

Inspired by the film "The Dirty Dozen", this series chronicles 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.
Combat! Went off the air in 1967 after a successful, five year run. Garrison's Gorillas, also from Selmur Productions, took over Combat's same time period on Tuesday nights on ABC.
Where Combat had a great character actor in Vic Morrow leading a strong supporting cast, Garrison had Ron Harper in the lead, and by time he got to the Planet of the Apes TV series some years later, he was still just as wooden and one dimensional as he is here.
By now you would see the same sets and backgrounds on three different war shows. And by the late 60's war was a little too real on the evening news and these types of WWII shows looked unrealistic and had run their course.
Garrison's Gorillas was cancelled and replaced by The Mod Squad in 1968.