Garrison's Gorillas fans? (1 Viewer)

Any Garrison's Gorillas fans out there? I've been hoping that this would come out on DVD, but it hasn't seemed Iikely. Someone mentioned DVD rights are owned by Disney, which is another strike against it ever being released. I figure that fans of Combat and the Rat Patrol would love it. Any other comments?Jthree

I understand that there is a company interested in this property, however there appears to be a great deal of confusion over who owns the home video rights.

I understand that there is a company interested in this property, however there appears to be a great deal of confusion over who owns the home video rights.

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That is correct. Should a deal be worked out, I'm hoping they include the unaired pilot with Cage and Kirby from Combat.

I would definitely be in line to purchase this if it is released.

Sometime back in the 1980s (or was it late '70s?) when American TV series were first sold to air in Mainland China, this series was among the very first batch and was a surprise hit over there, resulting in widespread disappointment that it had only lasted one season.

Although I find watching it now, the show is a little corny and doesn't have the same magic it had when I watched it as a kid, but I still would buy a set if it came out.

As I have several of the 60's WWll series, I will add this to my collection since I'm a fan of that era of tv. Does anyone know if the Italian actor Cesare Denova was one of the guerilla's? or was that Jericho? I think there were quite a few similarities between these two shows. Would you say that Garrison's Guerrilla's is closer to the Rat Patrol or Combat story wise. Combat is my favorite of all the WWll shows.

Garrison's Guerrilla's was a take off on the movie The Dirty Dozen and was closer to a TV version of that than either of the shows you mentioned.

Cesare Danova was one of the cast members.

I loved this show when I was a kid in it's original airing, but I've never, ever lived anywhere that showed it in syndication. My favorite character was Chief, the native American with the switchblade up his sleeve that could whip that bad boy out, snap it open and underhand that thing into any bad guy! It was probably the start of my life-long fascination with automatic knives.

I'm in for a dvd set for sure.

No doubt the DIRTY DOZEN helped sell GARRISON's GORILLAS. But the actual team member specialties: leader/planner, conman/master of disquise, thief/forger, safecracker/mechanic, muscle/killer, were closer to the 1964 WWII movie, THE SECRET INVASION.

That same team specialist dynamic was also used in THE A TEAM and LEVERAGE and other shows, with the mechanic character becoming a computer whiz hacker.

Another bit of GG trivia. In the summer of 1968, ABC was the first network to cut back on prime time coverage of the political parties presidential conventions. So with no other entertainment competition, Garrison's Gorillas was the number one rated show for the weeks the two conventions were going on. So a lot of people saw Garrison's Gorillas, and still remember it.

Being only one season there are not enough episodes for it to be syndicated.

hypnohighball said:

I loved this show when I was a kid in it's original airing, but I've never, ever lived anywhere that showed it in syndication. My favorite character was Chief, the native American with the switchblade up his sleeve that could whip that bad boy out, snap it open and underhand that thing into any bad guy! It was probably the start of my life-long fascination with automatic knives.

I'm in for a dvd set for sure.

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Randy Korstick said:

Being only one season there are not enough episodes for it to be syndicated.

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One season can't be the complete reason.

Voyagers! ran only one season and was syndicated nationally, so was Street Hawk.

Later, we would see some one season shows syndicated like Voyagers or Battlestar Galactica but the only 60s one season show that I know of being syndicated was 'Gidget'. I don't know of any dramas that lasted only one season that were syndicated from that era.

Garrison's Gorillas was shown on the Goodlife Channel in the 90's or 80's. And as Vic Pardo said it was a big hit in China, and shown in Europe.Garrison's is up at youtube in both English and foreign dubbed versions.The Gallant Men and Time Tunnel are other 60's one season shows that were syndicated. There must be others.

John Karras said:

I understand that there is a company interested in this property, however there appears to be a great deal of confusion over who owns the home video rights.

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Any other news on this?James

Bob Gu said:

The Gallant Men and Time Tunnel are other 60's one season shows that were syndicated. There must be others.

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The Green Hornet

I think we need to differentiate between shows that were first syndicated to local stations right after their runs ended, as opposed to those that were only rediscovered on cable decades after the fact. To me, syndication better describes the former.

I remember PBS airing some (but not all) episodes of "The Paper Chase" after its cancellation which is what inspired the eventual Showtime revival.

I would love to see this Garrison's Gorillas released!!!

Jack P said:

Later, we would see some one season shows syndicated like Voyagers or Battlestar Galactica but the only 60s one season show that I know of being syndicated was 'Gidget'. I don't know of any dramas that lasted only one season that were syndicated from that era.

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The post I was commenting on was about one season tv series not being syndicated, not one season 60's series being syndicated.

As for "later we would see some one season shows like Voyagers! or Battlestar Galactica" it wasn't "later" Galactica went into syndication on local stations right after ABC dumped it, although at first in the tv movie format before showing up in the original one hour episodes. Voyagers! ended in 1983 and by 1985 was in local syndication partnered with Street Hawk, a series that hit local syndication only months after ending it's network run.