About this season
Harlem Globetrotters 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. 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.
Episodes (16)
1. The Great Geese Goof-Up
Aired 12 September 1970 • 30 min
The Globetrotters are on their way to an All-Star game, when the bus gets a flat tire. In attempting to fix it, “Geese” Ausbie sprains his wrist and has to go to the hospital. At the same hospital, a magician finds out, on the news, the trained boxing kangaroo he rented out to two men, Lefty and Louis Callahan, was used in a jewelry store robbery.
2. Football Zeros
Aired 19 September 1970 • 30 min
The gang volunteers to take the place of a football team that can’t make it to a charity game that benefits poor kids, and end up getting embroiled in a plot to steal the game’s proceeds.
3. Hold That Hillbilly
Aired 26 September 1970 • 30 min
4. Bad News Cruise
Aired 3 October 1970 • 30 min
5. Rodeo Duds
Aired 10 October 1970 • 30 min
6. Double Dribble Double
Aired 17 October 1970 • 30 min
7. Heir Loons
Aired 24 October 1970 • 30 min
8. From Scoop to Nuts
Aired 31 October 1970 • 30 min
9. What a Day for a Birthday
Aired 7 November 1970 • 30 min
10. It's Snow Vacation
Aired 14 November 1970 • 30 min
11. The Great Ouch Doors
Aired 21 November 1970 • 30 min
12. Hooray for Hollywood
Aired 28 November 1970 • 30 min
13. Shook-Up Sheriff
Aired 5 December 1970 • 30 min
14. Gone to the Dogs
Aired 12 December 1970 • 30 min
15. The Wild Blue Yonder
Aired 19 December 1970 • 30 min
16. Long Gone Gip
Aired 2 January 1971