Harlem Globetrotters (1970): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 1970, Harlem Globetrotters is an animation series.

What it’s about. 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.

Who’s in it. Harlem Globetrotters stars Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Robert DoQui, Scatman Crothers and Johnny Williams.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.4/10, Harlem Globetrotters has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on Aspire TV Amazon Channel. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Harlem Globetrotters page.

If you liked it. Fans of Harlem Globetrotters tend to enjoy Rick and Morty, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Attack on Titan and Attack on Titan: No Regrets.