6.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Harlem Globetrotters (1970)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.1
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film celebrates the Harlem Globetrotters, an all-Black team that achieved international fame and broke racial barriers, implicitly promoting themes of diversity, anti-racism, and social justice through their athletic excellence and entertainment.
The movie features a diverse main cast by portraying the real-life Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. The narrative primarily focuses on the team's athletic achievements and camaraderie, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or centering DEI themes.
Secondary
The film 'Harlem Globetrotters' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on the basketball team's adventures and comedic situations, without incorporating elements related to queer identity or experiences, resulting in no direct portrayal for evaluation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1970 animated series features the real-life Harlem Globetrotters, who were all male. The show portrays these established male characters as male, with no instances of a character canonically or historically established as one gender being depicted as another.
The 1970 animated series features fictionalized versions of the real-life Harlem Globetrotters, who were historically and canonically Black athletes. The animated characters accurately reflect the race of the real players, and no established character's race was altered.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.2
6.0
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