PLOT: Garrison and the men return to New York City so they can locate a big-city gangster who they believe can help them with one of their missions. (This is Part 1 of a two part episode. Part 2 is called "The Plot To Kill")
Worldvision Enterprises, the syndicator-distributor of "GARRISON'S GORILLAS" used to be called ABC Films, but the FCC said that TV networks were not allowed to syndicate their shows-so like Viacom, an outgrowth of CBS, both entities were the largest suppliers of syndicated reruns from off-network shows. ABC Films became Worldvision Enterprises sometime in 1973, and later during that decade, they were brought by The Taft Broadcasting Company, the then-owners of Hanna-Barbera Productions and Ruby-Spears Enterprises among their known collected assets. and when Ted Turner brought Hanna-Barbera and most of the Ruby-Spears cartoon library in 1991 (which led to Cartoon Network in 1993) Worldvision was sold to Spelling Entertainment, Aaron Spelling's company around the same time, but by 2000, Viacom acquired Spelling Entertainment and Worldvision, and shortly after they brought Paramount Pictures in 1994 (amid a bidding competition with QVC) and buying CBS in 1999 for some $39 Billion dollars, the company and its assets were somewhat divided, and by the mid-2000s, they became CBS Paramount, and eventually becoming CBS TV Distribution, with the combined assets of both TV and film libraries CBS now has control of the Worldvision Enterprises TV library, that includes many ABC-TV shows from the 1960s (including "GARRISON'S GORILLA" and "COMBAT") and that TV network's "Movie Of The Week" series that they (ABC) launched 50 years ago. because of Spelling Entertainment's acquisition of Worldvision Enterprises, they owned most of Worldvision's library before they were brought by CBS-Viacom.
The scene in the beginning where they made a distraction in that pumphouse to get a car was used before in another episode ! Didn't they had enough fantasy to come up with something else ? LOL
See I Ginger again in this scene ? LOL they do use a lot of the same actors in different episodes for different persons don't they even a German officer who was ( possible) dead in one episode and played another one in a later episode.
That is late '30s to early 1940s fashion. When the war started cloth was in short supply and designers were forced to use less material in the clothes they designed. Thank God.! Because if you look at the excesses of older pre-war and early post war clothes ... YUCK.! They hid everything ! And talk about baggy ! The pants were saggy and the cuffs dropped over and bunched up over the shoes.! Padded shoulders on woman's clothes had enough fabric to make another dress out of.! I love tightt pants on the guys ! Don't you.? ( But I HATE bell bottoms.! )
Since when do men wear suits and hats in the 70's. Late 70's is the beginning of Disco. Seriously they are in the late 40's fashion. Vehicle however are American and not German in this series.
I do not understand the premise of this series. I did not have the opportunity to watch it when it was first broadcast. They seem to be fighting world war two in the 70s. They are fighting german soldiers but everybody who is not in uniform (and they are farbs) is dressed in 70s fashions. And except for some (farb) german ww2 vehicles, the furnishings are also from the 70s.
