Harlem Globe Trotters: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Harlem Globetrotters (called Harlem Globe Trotters in the opening titles) 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.

Series details

• Title: Harlem Globe Trotters
• Format: Animation
• Language: English
• Genres: Adventure, Children, Sports
• Premiere date: 1970-09-12
• Final broadcast date listed: 1971-10-16
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CBS
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 5.8/10
• TVMaze ID: 4048

Cast and credited roles

• Scatman Crothers — George "Meadowlark" Lemon
• Stu Gilliam — Freddie "Curly" Neal
• Johnny Williams — Hubert "Geese" Ausbie
• Richard Elkins — J.C. "Gip" Gipson
• Eddie Anderson — Bobby Joe Mason
• Robert DoQui — Pablo Robertson
• Nancy Wible — Granny

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1970-09-12; final listed air date 1971-01-02; episode order: 16.
• Season 2: premiered 1971-09-11; final listed air date 1971-10-16; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Harlem Globe Trotters on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.