Originally intended to air on ESPN, ProStars centers on Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky fighting crime and helping children, often protecting the environment as well. The ProStars franchise also included a licensed breakfast cereal. When the show first came out, the original theme song, "We are ProStars", was an homage to the song "We Will Rock You", by the rock group, Queen (see links below). In later episodes, the song was slowed down, and the chorus was reduced to 'ProStars! Show staaaars! Wayne Gretzky (voiced by Townsend Coleman) nearly always plays the role of comic relief. Inexplicably, his mind is always on food.Bo Jackson (voiced by Dave Fennoy) provides the proverbial muscle for the heroes. He is immensely strong and has a bit of a mean streak. His strength often approaches superhuman levels, such as in the series opening where he uses a gigantic tree trunk like a club against a logging robot.Michael Jordan (voiced by Dorian Harewood) is the leader of the troupe. He is exceptionally smart and talented with complicated contraptions, and encourages children to study mathematics and the sciences.Mom (voiced by Susan Silo), a quasi-Yiddish and Jewish mother stereotype, is the Q to the ProStars' James Bond. She constantly invents wacky gadgets loosely based on sports equipment for the heroes to use. The ProStars spend all their free time in "Mom's Gym," and possibly live there too, which serves as the ProStars' headquarters.Denise (voiced by Diana Barrows) is an attractive young apprentice to Mom. She wants to help the ProStars, yet rarely makes an impact.The Neighbor is a hapless man who wear glasses who happens to live in same the neighborhood as the ProStars' headquarters. By sheer misfortune he happens to fall victim to the malfunctions of the ProStars' machines, such as him being buried in snow when their climate machine goes awry. In one episode he takes a vacation to the Himalayas, enjoying the isolation and confident he is far away from any mishaps the ProStars could unleash, only to find the ProStars are also in the area stopping a villain there. Beastly facts about the ProStars: Bo Jackson's first major-league home run went 475 feet.By the age of ten, Wayne Gretzky scored 378 goals and 139 assists in just 85 games with the Nadrofsky Steelers.As a senior in high school, Michael Jordan was selected to the McDonald's All-American Team after averaging a triple-double: 29.2 points, 11.6 rebounds, and 10.1 assists.
