The Super Globetrotters: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

This show featured the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team as undercover superheroes, who would transform from their regular forms by entering magic portable lockers. 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. Most episodes culminated in the Super Globetrotters challenging the villain and his henchmen to a basketball game for whatever treasure or device they sought.

Series details

• Title: The Super Globetrotters
• Format: Animation
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy, Children, Sports
• Premiere date: 1979-09-22
• Final broadcast date listed: 1979-12-15
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NBC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.3/10
• TVMaze ID: 16748
• IMDb ID: tt0194625
• TVDB ID: 76219

Cast and credited roles

• Scatman Crothers — Fluid Man/Nate Branch
• Stu Gilliam — Super Sphere/Freddie "Curly" Neal
• Buster Jones — Spaghetti Man/James "Twiggy" Sanders
• Michael Rye — Narrator
• Michael Rye — Basketball Announcer
• Michael Rye — Lighting Man
• Michael Rye — Mayor of Breadbasket City
• Michael Rye — Whaleman
• Adam Wade — Gizmo/Louis "Sweet Lou" Dunbar
• Johnny Williams — Multi Man/Hubert "Geese" Ausbie
• Frank Welker — Crime Globe
• Frank Welker — Attila the Hun

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1979-09-22; final listed air date 1979-12-15; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

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