| The Super Globetrotters | |
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| Genre | Superhero |
| Developed by | Andy Heyward |
| Written by | Tom Dagenais Rowby Goren Andy Heyward Robert M. London Larry Parr |
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| Starring | Harlem Globetrotters |
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| Narrated by | Michael Rye |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
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| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 22 – December 15, 1979 |
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| Harlem Globetrotters | |
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The Super Globetrotters is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It premiered on NBC on September 22, 1979, and ran for 13 episodes. It was a spin-off series from Hanna-Barbera's Harlem Globetrotters.[1] Unlike the original Globetrotters series, The Super Globetrotters was solely produced by Hanna-Barbera, 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 under CBS ownership. The series was a re-adaptation of HB's earlier 1966 series The Impossibles.
The Super Globetrotters aired in its own half-hour timeslot from September 22 to November 3, 1979, and beginning November 10, episodes were packaged together with Godzilla under the title The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour which ran until September 20, 1980.[2]
Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. This is also one of a number of shows made before the mid-1980s seen on the Cartoon Network and Boomerang to have been taken from time-compressed PAL masters.
- ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 266–267. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981. Scarecrow Press. pp. 131–134. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 14 March 2020.