Harlem Globetrotters

1970 - 1971 6.0 (6 votes) 2 Seasons

Genres

Animation

Networks

CBS

Created By

William Hanna
Joseph Barbera

Overview

Harlem Globetrotters is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera and CBS Productions, featuring animated versions of players from the famous basketball team, Harlem Globetrotters. Broadcast from September 12, 1970, to September 2, 1972 on CBS, and later re-run on NBC as The Go-Go Globetrotters, the show featured cartoon versions of George "Meadowlark" Lemon, Freddie "Curly" Neal, Hubert "Geese" Ausbie, J.C. "Gip" Gipson, Bobby Joe Mason, and Pablo Robertson, alongside their fictional bus driver and manager, Granny, and their dog mascot, Dribbles. The series worked to a formula where the team travels somewhere and typically get involved in a local conflict that leads to one of the Globetrotters proposing a basketball game to settle the issue. To ensure the Globetrotters' defeat, the villains rig the contest; however, before the second half of the contest, the team always finds a way to even the odds, become all but invincible, and win the game.

Key Crew

Producer: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Top Cast

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Robert DoQui

Scatman Crothers

Johnny Williams

Seasons

Season 1 (1970)

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16 episodes

Episodes

Episode 1: The Great Geese Goof-Up

1970-09-12

The Globetrotters are on their way to an All-Star game, when the bus gets a flat tire. In attempting to fix it, “Geese” Ausbie sprains his wrist and has to go to the hospital. At the same hospital, a magician finds out, on the news, the trained boxing kangaroo he rented out to two men, Lefty and Louis Callahan, was used in a jewelry store robbery.

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