Usuario:Amitie 10g/Abandonados/Harlem Globetrotters (serie animada)

Amitie 10g/Abandonados/Harlem Globetrotters
	Programa o serie de televisión
País de origen	USA
N.º de episodios	22
Producción
Productor(es)	William Hanna; Joseph Barbera
Duración	30 minutes
Distribuidor	CBS Television Distribution
Lanzamiento
Medio de difusión	CBS
Cronología de producción

Harlem Globetrotters (called Harlem Globe Trotters in the opening titles) 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.

History

Twenty-two episodes of Harlem Globetrotters were eventually produced: 16 for the 1970-71 season, and six more for the 1971-72 season. Harlem Globetrotters has a place in history as being the first Saturday morning cartoon to feature a predominately African-American cast; Filmation's The Hardy Boys had been the first to feature an African-American character the previous year. Another Hanna-Barbera series, Josie and the Pussycats, premiered 30 minutes earlier than Harlem Globetrotters on the same day and network, and was the first Saturday morning cartoon to feature an African-American female character. Like many other Saturday morning cartoons of the era, the first season episodes of the series featured a laugh track.

After the show was canceled, the animated Globetrotters made three appearances on Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies in 1972 and 1973. Oddly enough, Dribbles, who didn't appear on the show was in the theme song sequence and several references were made to Granny, who also didn't appear. Hanna-Barbera produced a second animated series starring the Globetrotters in 1979 called The Super Globetrotters, this time featuring the players as superheroes. In spring 1999, TV Land aired repeats of Harlem Globetrotters on Saturday mornings as part of its TV Land Super Retrovision Saturdaze lineup. The series has not been rerun since.

The series was a co-production of Hanna-Barbera and the CBS Television Network (only one of few animated TV series that CBS directly produced). Syndication rights were originally held by Viacom Enterprises, formerly owned by CBS as its syndication arm. They are now held by CBS Television Distribution. CBS Home Entertainment currently does not plan on releasing the series on DVD (in any event, they would need approval from the Globetrotters themselves).

Gold Key Comics series

In April 1972, Gold Key Comics launched a comic adaptation of the Harlem Globetrotters animated series; their first comic book appearance was in issue #8 of Gold Key's Hanna-Barbera Fun-In published in July 1971. Several stories in early issues were based on episodes of the TV show. The comic series lasted for 4 years and 12 issues through January 1975.

Soundtrack LP

A soundtrack album, The Globetrotters, was produced by Jeff Barry and released in 1970 by Kirshner Records (Kirshner #KES-106, distributed by then-CBS division Columbia Records), which featured tunes heard in episodes of the series (during the basketball game sequences). Don Kirshner served as music supervisor for both the series and the record. Two singles were generated from this onetime release, one of which (a cover of the J.R. Bailey and The Cadillacs tune "Rainy Day Bells") managed to crack the Top 100, followed by three non-album singles. Jimmy Radcliffe produced, with Wally Gold, and provided the vocals on "Duke Of Earl", "Everybody's Got Hot Pants" from the first non-album single and co-wrote and produced "Everybody Needs Love" from the second as well providing a number of songs and recordings for the series.

Globetrotter frontman Meadowlark Lemon was the only member of the team to be actually involved with the project, adding occasional background vocals to some tracks.

Tracklist for The Globetrotters

(side 1)

The Globetrotter's Theme (Jeff Barry) - 0:41
Globetrottin' (Jeff Barry) - 2:19
Bouncin' All Over the World (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield) - 3:01
Sneaky Pete (Rudy Clark - J.R. Bailey - K. Williams) - 2:45
Marathon Mary (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield) - 3:06
River Queen (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield) - 3:06
House Party (Rudy Clark - J.R. Bailey - K. Williams) - 3:00

(side 2)

Gravy (Rudy Clark - J.R. Bailey - K. Williams) - 3:19
Meadowlark (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield) - 2:22
Lillia Peabody (Rudy Clark - J.R. Bailey - K. Williams) - 2:56
Put a Little Meat On Your Bones, Lucinda (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield) - 3:00
Rainy Day Bells (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield) - 3:02
Cheer Me Up (Jeff Barry - Ron Dante - J. Carr) - 2:22

Commercial singles (1970)

"Cheer Me Up" b/w "Gravy" (Kirshner # 63-5006)
"Rainy Day Bells" b/w "Meadowlark" (Kirshner #63-5008)

Non-album singles (1971)

"Duke of Earl" b/w "Everybody's Got Hot Pants" (Kirshner #63-5012)
"Everybody Needs Love" (Jimmy Radcliffe - Phil Stern) b/w "ESP" (Kirshner #63-5016)
"Sweet Georgia Brown" b/w "Bye Bye Blues" (Harlem Globetrotters #45-HGT-300 A/B)

Episodes

Season 1 (1970-1971)

Episode #	Episode title	Original airdate	Synopsis
HG-1	The Great Geese Goof-Up	1970 de septiembre del 12	When Geese gets hurt and goes to the hospital the other Globetrotters think he was turned into a kangaroo at a magic show. The kangaroo was actually an unknowing accomplice in a jewelry theft. The Globetrotters must find the real Geese and stop the criminals if they can.
HG-2	Football Zeros	1970 de septiembre del 19
HG-3	Hold That Hillbilly	1970 de septiembre del 26
HG-4	Bad News Cruise	1970 de octubre del 3
HG-5	Rodeo Duds	1970 de octubre del 10
HG-6	Double Dribble Double	1970 de octubre del 17
HG-7	Heir Loons	1970 de octubre del 24
HG-8	From Scoop to Nuts	1970 de octubre del 31
HG-9	What a Day For a Birthday	1970 de noviembre del 7
HG-10	It's Snow Vacation	1970 de noviembre del 14
HG-11	The Great Ouch Doors	1970 de noviembre del 21
HG-12	Hooray For Hollywood	1970 de noviembre del 28
HG-13	Shook Up Sheriff	1970 de diciembre del 5
HG-14	Gone To The Dogs	1970 de diciembre del 12
HG-15	The Wild Blue Yonder	1970 de diciembre del 19
HG-16	Long Gone Gip	1971 de enero del 2

Season 2 (1971-1972)

HG-17. A Pearl Of A Game (9/11/1971)

HG-18. Nothing To Moon About (9/18/1971)

HG-19. Pardon My Magic (9/25/1971)

HG-20. Granny's Royal Ruckus (10/2/1971)

HG-21. Soccer To Me (10/9/1971)

HG-22. Jungle Jitters (10/16/1971)

Production credits

Produced and Directed By: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Co-Producer: Alex Lovy
Story Supervision: Joe Ruby, Ken Spears
Story: Mike Maltese, Woody Kling, Dalton Sandifer, Tom Dagenais
Story Direction: Earl Klein, George Singer, Paul Sommer, Howard Swift
Voices: Eddie Anderson, Rudy Clark, Scatman Crothers, Robert DoQui, Richard Elkins, Stu Gilliam, Meadowlark Lemon, Nancy Wible, Johnny Williams, Ken Williams
Animation Director: Charles A. Nichols
Production Design: Iwao Takamoto
Production Supervisor: Victor O. Schipek
Layout: Bob Singer, Don Morgan, Mike Arens, Rick Gonzalez, Mo Gollub, Dan Noonan, Alex Ignatiev, Herb Johnson
Animation: Volus Jones, Rudy Cataldi, Don Patterson, John Walker, Ken Southworth, Carlo Vinci, Bob Goe, Dave Tendlar, Jack Parr
Background Styling: Walt Peregoy
Backgrounds: Lorraine Andrina, Bill Butler, Philip DeGuard, Rolly Oliva, Don Watson, Ann Guenther
Animation Checking: Marceil Ferguson, Jeanne Thorpe, Grace McCurdy, Woody Chatwood
Titles: Robert Schaefer
Music Supervision: Don Kirshner
Musical Director: Ted Nichols
Globetrotters Tunes Produced By: Jeff Barry
Technical Supervision: Frank Paiker
Ink & Paint Supervision: Roberta Greutert
Xerography: Robert "Tiger" West
Sound Direction: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
Editorial Supervisor: Larry Cowan
Music Editor: James Yaras
Effects Editors: Joe Reitano, Rex Lipton
Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
Post Production: Joed Eaton
Camera: Charles Flekal, Dick Blundell, Dennis Weaver, George Epperson