The Super Globetrotters (1979)

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rated

TP

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated series follows the famous Harlem Globetrotters as they gain superpowers and fight crime. Each episode shows them using their basketball skills and new abilities to defeat various villains.

sillylightheartedcampyaction-packedfunenergeticnostalgic

What happens

The Super Globetrotters is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It premiered on NBC on September 22, 1979, and ran for 13 episodes. It was a spin-off series from Hanna-Barbera's Harlem Globetrotters. Unlike the original Globetrotters series, The Super Globetrotters was solely produced by Hanna-Barbera, whereas the original series was co-produced with CBS Productions. Thus, Super Globetrotters later became incorporated into the library of Warner Bros. while the original series remains under CBS ownership. The series was a re-adaptation of HB's earlier 1966 series The Impossibles. The Super Globetrotters aired in its own half-hour timeslot from September 22 to November 3, 1979, and beginning November 10, episodes were packaged together with Godzilla under the title The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour which ran until September 20, 1980. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. This is also one of a number of shows made before the mid-1980s seen on the Cartoon Network and Boomerang to have been taken from time-compressed PAL masters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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