Saturday, December 28, 2013

The Harlem Globetrotters

The 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 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 find a way to even the odds, become all but invincible, and win the game.

The cartoon show features the voices of Scatman Crothers as George "Meadowlark" Lemon. Stu Gilliam as Freddie "Curly" Neal. Johnny Williams as Hubert "Geese" Ausbie. Richard Elkins as J.C. "Gip" Gipson. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as Bobby Joe Mason. Robert DoQui as Pablo Robertson. And Nancy Wible as Granny.

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