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| director = Ray Patterson<br>Carl Urbano<br>Oscar Dufau<br>George Gordon
| director = Ray Patterson<br>Carl Urbano<br>Oscar Dufau<br>George Gordon
| executive producers = [[William Hanna]]<br>[[Joseph Barbera]]
| executive producers = [[William Hanna]]<br>[[Joseph Barbera]]
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| voices = [[Scatman Crothers]] (Liquid Man)<br>[[Stu Gilliam]] (Sphere Man)<br>[[Buster Jones]] (Spaghetti Man)<br>[[Adam Wade (singer)|Adam Wade]] (Gizmo Man)<br>[[Johnny Williams (actor)|Johnny Williams]] (Multi Man)<br>[[Michael Rye]] (Announcer)<br>[[Nancy Wible]] (Granny)
| starring = [[Harlem Globetrotters]]
| starring = [[Harlem Globetrotters]]
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| voices = [[Scatman Crothers]]<br>[[Stu Gilliam]]<br>[[Buster Jones]]<br>[[Adam Wade (singer)|Adam Wade]]<br>[[Frank Welker]]<br>[[Johnny Williams (actor)|Johnny Williams]]
| narrated = [[Michael Rye]]
| theme_music_composer = [[Hoyt Curtin]]
| theme_music_composer = [[Hoyt Curtin]]
| company = [[Hanna-Barbera Productions]]
| company = [[Hanna-Barbera Productions]]
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* '''Museum Man''' (voiced by [[Herb Vigran]]) - Cratchit is a disgruntled history museum [[janitor]] who could bring fossils and statues to life through a special remote control.
* '''Museum Man''' (voiced by [[Herb Vigran]]) - Cratchit is a disgruntled history museum [[janitor]] who could bring fossils and statues to life through a special remote control.
* '''Bwana Bob''' - A [[Hunting|hunter]] who captured and hunted the Globetrotters on his private island. He also has a team of basketball-playing giant [[turtle]]s.
* '''Bwana Bob''' - A [[Hunting|hunter]] who captured and hunted the Globetrotters on his private island. He also has a team of basketball-playing giant [[turtle]]s.
* '''Facelift''' (voiced by [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]]) - Facelift is an [[extraterrestrial life|alien]] that runs on nuclear energy who can steal the faces of people and place them on his Demon Droids. He used this ability in order to steal the faces of the world's leaders. The Super Globetrotters managed to steal his hydro-nucleic core that gives Facelift his powers at the North Pole. When a seal throws the hydro-nucleic core into the water, Facelift exploded.
* '''The Facelift''' -
** '''Demon Droids''' - Faceless robots that serve Facelift.
* '''Whaleman''' -
* '''Whaleman''' -
* '''Robo''' - A [[mad scientist]] who created the Globots.
* '''Robo''' - A [[mad scientist]] who created the Globots.
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* [[Buster Jones]] - Spaghetti Man/James "Twiggy" Sanders
* [[Buster Jones]] - Spaghetti Man/James "Twiggy" Sanders
* [[Michael Rye]] - Narrator, Basketball Announcer
* [[Michael Rye]] - Narrator, Basketball Announcer
* [[Adam Wade]] - Gizmo/Louis "Sweet Lou" Dunbar
* [[Adam Wade (singer)|Adam Wade]] - Gizmo/Louis "Sweet Lou" Dunbar
* [[Frank Welker]] - Crime Globe
* [[Frank Welker]] - Crime Globe
* [[Johnny Williams (actor)|Johnny Williams]] - Multi Man/Hubert "Geese" Ausbie
* [[Johnny Williams (actor)|Johnny Williams]] - Multi Man/Hubert "Geese" Ausbie
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* [[Margaret McIntyre]] -
* [[Don Messick]] - Time Lord
* [[Don Messick]] - Time Lord
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* [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]] - Facelift
* [[Herb Vigran]] - Museum Man/Cratchit
* [[Herb Vigran]] - Museum Man/Cratchit
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Revision as of 14:27, 9 September 2011

The Super Globetrotters
Titlecard for The Super Globetrotters.
GenreCartoon
Created byHanna-Barbera
Directed byRay Patterson
Carl Urbano
Oscar Dufau
George Gordon
StarringHarlem Globetrotters
Voices ofScatman Crothers
Stu Gilliam
Buster Jones
Adam Wade
Frank Welker
Johnny Williams
Narrated byMichael Rye
Theme music composerHoyt Curtin
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes13
Production
Running time30 Minutes
Production companyHanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
NetworkSyndicated
ReleaseSeptember 22 –
December 15, 1979

The Super Globetrotters is an American Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC. It premiered 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 H-B, 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 has not been seen in recent years due to intellectual property issues.

Plot

This show featured the basketball team Harlem Globetrotters as undercover superheroes, who would transform from their regular forms by entering magic portable lockers carried in Globetrotter. Each member of the group had individual super powers and overall, all members of the group could fly.

The Globetrotters received their missions from a basketball-styled talking satellite called the Crime Globe (voiced by Frank Welker). Most episodes culminated in the Super Globetrotters challenging the villain and his henchmen to a basketball game for whatever treasure or device they sought. The civilian Globetrotters were always bested by the villains' super-powers in the first half, but they would use their own super-powers in the second half (often at the admonition of the Crime Globe) to save the day.

Characters

Super Globetrotters

Listed by player name, superhero name, then voice actor and superpowers.

Villains

  • Museum Man (voiced by Herb Vigran) - Cratchit is a disgruntled history museum janitor who could bring fossils and statues to life through a special remote control.
  • Bwana Bob - A hunter who captured and hunted the Globetrotters on his private island. He also has a team of basketball-playing giant turtles.
  • Facelift (voiced by John Stephenson) - Facelift is an alien that runs on nuclear energy who can steal the faces of people and place them on his Demon Droids. He used this ability in order to steal the faces of the world's leaders. The Super Globetrotters managed to steal his hydro-nucleic core that gives Facelift his powers at the North Pole. When a seal throws the hydro-nucleic core into the water, Facelift exploded.
    • Demon Droids - Faceless robots that serve Facelift.
  • Whaleman -
  • Robo - A mad scientist who created the Globots.
    • Globots - Evil robot duplicates of the Globetrotters.
  • Tattoo Man (voiced by Lennie Weinrib) - A space pirate who could animate the tattoos on his body (similar to Green Lantern villain Tattooed Man). He eventually reforms by showing off his tattoo tricks to the children.
    • Tattoo Man's Team - His basketball team consists of Mercury, Arms the Octopus, Glob, and Atlas of whom are summoned from Tattoo Man's tattoos.
  • Movie Man -
  • Bad Blue Bart (voiced by Paul Winchell) - Bad Blue Bart is a western outlaw who used the remote-controlled Phantom Cowboys in order to take control of Miss Jenny's ranch and Tombstone Valley in order to get to the Steam Wells under the Bar-B-Q-Ranch. Crime Globe recommends that the Super Globetrotters go up against Bad Blue Bart in a rodeo contest. After a tie in the rodeo, the Super Globetrotters go up against Bad Blue Bart's Phantom Cowboys in a western version of basketball game. The Super Globetrotters defeat the Phantom Cowboy and Bad Blue Bart ends up in the calaboose.
    • Fenwick (voiced by Frank Welker) - Miss Jenny's farmhand who is actually a henchman of Bad Blue Bart in a plot to get to the Steam Wells under the Bar-B-Q-Ranch.
    • The Phantom Cowboy - The Phantom Cowboy is a steam-operator, remote-controlled zombie who has been causing trouble in Tombstone Valley. Five of them were controlled by Bad Blue Bart and later make up his basketball team.
  • The Time Lord (voiced by Don Messick) - He had a special crystal that could alter time, including to summon anyone out of history to do his bidding.
  • Count Bragula - A vampire who terrorized Transylvania.
  • Bull Moose - A villain who wore fake antlers and was assisted by a gang of livestock-themed henchmen (Ham, Wool Woman, Ponytail, etc.). He had a ray-gun that turned things to gold.
  • Merlo the Magician - Not so much a villain as a wizard who would not help just anyone. He made the Globetrotters play a game against his knights on horseback to earn his trust. After the Globetrotters won, Merlo placed a spell on the Globetrotters to enable them to return home.
  • Attila the Hun -
  • Moosey McMoose, the King of Kabooze - This villain never actually appeared in the series, for fear of a lawsuit from the owners of the character Bullwinkle, with whom Moosey bore a strong resemblance.

Episodes

# Airdate Title Production Synopsis #
1 September 22, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. Museum Man" 7902
2 September 29, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. Bwana Bob" 7905
3 October 6, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. The Facelift" 7907 A nuclear-powered alien named Facelift plots to steal the faces of the World Leaders and place them on his Demon Droids in order to gain control of the world.
4 October 13, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. Whaleman" 7901
5 October 20, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. Robo and the Globots" 7908
6 October 27, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. Tattoo Man" 7903 A space pirate named Tattoo Man is on a gold-robbing spree.
7 November 3, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. Movie Man" 7910
8 November 10, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. The Phantom Cowboy" 7904 While visiting Miss Jenny on her Bar-B-Q-Ranch, the Globetrotters learn that the Phantom Cowboy is responsible for various attacks in Tombstone Valley. The Crime Globe states that the Phantom Cowboy is actually a remote-controlled zombie and now the Globetrotters must find the person controlling it.
9 November 17, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. The Time Lord" 7909
10 November 24, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. Transylvania Terrors" 7906
11 December 1, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. Bull Moose" 7912
12 December 8, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. Merlo the Magician" 7911
13 December 15, 1979 "The Super Globetrotters vs. Attila the Hun" 7913

Cast

Additional Voices

Notes

  • Three of the team's super-heroic identities and powers were taken from the characters of the 1966 Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Impossibles. The transformation sequences and many of the Super Globetrotters' moves were also the same as their Impossibles counterparts.
    • Liquid Man was based on Fluid Man, even retaining the "F" insignia of Fluid Man's costume instead of an "L".
    • Spaghetti Man was based on Coil Man.
    • Multi Man's name was the same in both series, and both hero's carry a shield with an "M" insignia.
  • It was never explained why the villains would (rather unwisely) wager the fruit of their ill-gotten gains on a basketball game – against a professional basketball team.
    • No explanation was given, either, as to why the Globetrotters never began the game as their superhero selves rather than wait until halftime (where they were always behind by a large margin). Further, no explanation was given as to why the audience always cheered when the villains were winning.

See also

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