*The book I refer to is Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters by Ben green. I am intrigued by but have not read 2024's Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports by Mark and Matthew Jacob.
*The Harlem Magicians started in 1953 and featured Globetrotter Marques Haynes, who had left that team after issues with Saperstein.
*Meadowlark Lemon starred on several Globetrotter-like barnstorming squads, like the Shooting Stars.
*1970's The Harlem Globetrotters aired on CBS for 22 episodes and had multiple rerun stints.1979's Super Globetrotters was an NBC cartoon. The Popcorn Machine aired in 1974 on CBS.
*1970's The Harlem Globetrotters aired on CBS for 22 episodes and had multiple rerun stints.1979's Super Globetrotters was an NBC cartoon. The Popcorn Machine aired in 1974 on CBS.
*Rodney Allen Rippy starred in a series of Jack in the Box TV ads in 1973 and became a short-lived but substantial phenomenon.
*The Impossibles is a series of cartoons produced by Hanna Barbera for CBS in 1966. They were paired with Frankenstein Jr. on Saturday mornings.
*The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island premiered May 15, 1981 on NBC, followed by TV's Censored Bloopers.
*The Trotters' appearance on The Love Boat is from the show's seventh season, an episode titled "Aunt Emma, I Love You/Hoopla/The First Romance." It premiered January 21, 1984 on ABC.
*The Trotters' appearance on The Love Boat is from the show's seventh season, an episode titled "Aunt Emma, I Love You/Hoopla/The First Romance." It premiered January 21, 1984 on ABC.
*Gold Key produced some Globetrotter comic books in the Seventies, and Milton Bradley released a board game in 1971.
*Please enjoy our epic video playlist for this episode with promos, intros, commercials, and more! The list contains Six Decades of Magic, a documentary hosted by Louis Gossett Jr. about the team's history. There is footage of the team and full episodes. It's a larger list than usual, but we wanted to share with you (most of) what we looked at for the podcast. Click below to go right to it, or you can always visit our official YouTube page for all of our past episodes and similar lists for each one of them!
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