In this iteration, the Globetrotters were superheroes with powers borrowed from the Impossibles. In every episode, the Globetrotters received instructions from a satellite called the Crime Globe, which happened to resemble a basketball, met a bizarre villain, and challenged him and his minions to a basketball game.
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| - In this iteration, the Globetrotters were superheroes with powers borrowed from the Impossibles. In every episode, the Globetrotters received instructions from a satellite called the Crime Globe, which happened to resemble a basketball, met a bizarre villain, and challenged him and his minions to a basketball game.
- The Super Globetrotters is a 1979 spinoff of The Harlem Globetrotters, produced by Hanna-Barbera for NBC. It ran for 13 episodes. It's five semi-real-life basketball entertainers who gain super powers. Ludicrous super powers. Nate Branch turns into water, Curly Neal retracts his limbs into his body and becomes a basketball, Twiggy Sanders can use his body as a rope, Sweet Lou Dunbar stores gadgets in his immense afro, and Geese Ausbie can duplicate himself. They fight villains, mostly by challenging them to basketball games. The whole show is parodied in a Futurama movie.
- The Super Globetrotters is an American Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Studios 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 partly under CBS ownership. Reruns of the series have aired on Boomerang.
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| - The Super Globetrotters is an American Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Studios 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 partly under CBS ownership. Reruns of the series have aired on Boomerang. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained an inferior laugh track created by the studio.
- The Super Globetrotters is a 1979 spinoff of The Harlem Globetrotters, produced by Hanna-Barbera for NBC. It ran for 13 episodes. It's five semi-real-life basketball entertainers who gain super powers. Ludicrous super powers. Nate Branch turns into water, Curly Neal retracts his limbs into his body and becomes a basketball, Twiggy Sanders can use his body as a rope, Sweet Lou Dunbar stores gadgets in his immense afro, and Geese Ausbie can duplicate himself. They fight villains, mostly by challenging them to basketball games. Some of the powers and costumes were taken directly from Hanna-Barbera's The Impossibles. The whole show is parodied in a Futurama movie.
- In this iteration, the Globetrotters were superheroes with powers borrowed from the Impossibles. In every episode, the Globetrotters received instructions from a satellite called the Crime Globe, which happened to resemble a basketball, met a bizarre villain, and challenged him and his minions to a basketball game.
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