The Super Globetrotters
Description:
The Super Globetrotters is a 1979 animated series about the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team who are secretly superheroes. When trouble arises, they use magic portable lockers to transform into their super-powered alter egos to fight villains, with each member having unique abilities like turning into water or cloning themselves. A basketball-shaped satellite called the Crime Globe alerts them to danger and even helps them strategize.
Premise: While publicly known as the Harlem Globetrotters, the team transforms into a superhero squad to solve crimes around the world.
Transformation: The team members enter portable lockers to transform from their civilian selves into their super-powered forms.
Powers: Each member has a unique power. Examples include: Liquid Man: Nate Branch can turn himself into water. Spaghetti Man: James "Twiggy" Sanders can stretch his body like spaghetti. Multi Man: Hubert "Geese" Ausbie can create clones of himself. Gizmo: Louis "Sweet Lou" Dunbar's afro contains an endless supply of gadgets. Sphere Man: Freddie "Curly" Neal can turn himself into a basketball.
Crime-fighting tool: The Crime Globe, a satellite that orbits the Earth, serves as their mission control, alerting them to trouble and providing strategies.
Antagonists and plots: Episodes feature villains like Bwana Bob, Movie Man, and Merlo the Magician, who plot various schemes. A common plot point involves the Super Globetrotters playing a basketball game against the villain as a final showdown to defeat them.