Classic TV Theme: Garrison’s Gorillas

Garrison’s Gorillas’ (1967) was developed in part to hitch onto the popularity of ’The Dirty Dozen’. They even used Telly Savalas in the pilot to cement the connection. But the show also owed much to classic ’Mission: Impossible’, with the team of inmates often using their unique skills to pull elaborate cons on the enemy. It even adopted the M:I technique of using clips from that week’s episode as part of the opening titles. But it didn’t set the Nielsens on fire and was gone after one season. The theme is by Leonard Rosenman, who a few years earlier did the honors for another WWII show: ’Combat!’ -