| Director: | John Eng |
| Producer: | Peggy Becker |
| Music: | Don Grady |
| Editor: | Karyn Finley Thompson |
| Runtime: | 73 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Network: | Nickelodeon |
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure is a 2002[1] animated television film produced by DIC Entertainment and Frederator Studios for Nickelodeon as part of the DIC Movie Toons series. It originally aired on December 15, 2002. It was released on home media by MGM Home Entertainment. Loosely based on Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, the plot follows a trio of genetic animals, a gorilla named Eddie, a cheetah named Sasha, and a parrot named Trevor, who decide to escape a laboratory and travel the world in hopes of finding a place known as Himalaya USA. Meanwhile, a hunter is tasked with catching the animals within a period of eighty days – before the tracking devices attached to the latter self-destruct.
Despite being marketed as a DIC Movie Toon, Viacom International retained the rights to the film.[2]
The story and script were written by Tim Wade and Danny Hartigan. The music for the film's songs were written by Emmy Award-winning composer John Kavanaugh and lyrics by John Kavanaugh and Barbara Epstein, the film's executive producer. The animation was produced overseas by Rough Draft Studios.
The film was initially scheduled for a 2000 air date on Nickelodeon, alongside The Electric Piper: A Pied Piper Adventure.[3] Globehunters was released on DVD and VHS in 2003 by MGM Home Entertainment, and re-released on DVD on September 2, 2008, by Gaiam.[4]