Harlem Globetrotters is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera and CBS Productions, featuring animated versions of players from the basketball team of the same name.
Broadcast from September 12, 1970 to October 16, 1971 on CBS Saturday Morning, repeated from September 10, 1972 to May 20, 1973 on CBS Sunday Morning, and later re-run from February 4 to September 2, 1978 on NBC as The Go-Go Globetrotters. The show team members featured Meadowlark Lemon, Freddie "Curly" Neal, Hubert "Geese" Ausbie, J.C. "Gip" Gipson, Bobby Joe Mason, and Paul "Pablo" Robertson, all in animated form, 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.
Cast[]
| Image | Character | USA | Fra |
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George Meadowlark Lemon | Scatman Crothers | |
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Freddie Curly Neal | Stu Gilliam | |
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Hubert Geese Ausbie | Johnny Williams | |
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J.C. Gip Gipson HG | Richard Elkins | |
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Bobby Joe Mason | Eddie Rochester Anderson | |
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Pablo Robertson | Robert DoQui | Albert Augier |
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Granny | Nancy Wible | |
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Dribbles | Albert Augier | |
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