The BEST episodes of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
Every episode of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?!
The world-famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, this energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to our detectives and the audience to figure out where in the world she is.
#1 - A Higher Calling
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/12/1994
Zack and Ivy pursue Carmen to Ayer's Rock where she has brought items of mysterious origins together in an attempt to contact aliens.
#2 - Retribution (1): The Unsinkable Carmen Sandiego
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/30/1998
Maelstrom, a thief who was caught by Carmen during her time as an ACME detective, escapes from prison, swearing revenge on her. At first, it is reported to the detectives that he died during his escape. Zack and Ivy find out that Maelstrom is alive and see the opportunity to catch both Carmen and Maelstrom. However, when the detectives sneak aboard Maelstrom's ship, he captures them.
#3 - The Trial of Carmen Sandiego
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1996
When Carmen is captured by a judge bent on sentencing her to life in prison, Zack and Ivy are appointed to her defense team. Carmen was accused of recently stealing the Magna Carta, which she did not steal. Zack and Ivy try to gather evidence to prove Carmen did not commit this particular crime. But is she really involved after all?
#4 - Labyrinth (3): When in Rome
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1995
Zack and Ivy escape from the future and follow Carmen to Rome. There, the detectives are captured and are sentenced to fight each other in the Colosseum games. Luckily, they are spared from having to fight each other to the death. They escape, and discover Carmen's plan - she's going to steal the Colosseum! The detectives realize this is part of her plan to become 'the greatest thief of all time' by stealing objects from the past, present, and future.
#5 - Labyrinth (2): Woman of the Year...2101
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1995
Carmen arrives in the year 2101 where she stops a heist of a powerful electro-magnet. Meanwhile, Zack and Ivy arrive at the future Acme Detective Agency where the wacky Future Chief doesn't recognize them. They try to prove who they are but run into a few scrapes with the law. Eventually, they meet up with Carmen in Africa. Although the detectives expose that she is a criminal, she escapes with the magnet and Zack and Ivy end up captured instead.
#6 - Labyrinth (1)
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1995
Zack and Ivy discover Carmen's underground training facility and go undercover as henchmen in training to try and nab Carmen. However, Carmen discovers them and leads them to a chamber that seems to have no way out. There is one way - an escape into time. Carmen created another time machine and uses it to escape. The detectives use a new Chronoskimmer that the Chief gives them and they trace where Carmen is heading - the future.
#7 - Follow My Footprints
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1995
It is reported that Carmen dies in a plane crash. The grief-stricken Chief is unable to help Zack and Ivy solve a series of clues that Carmen left behind to a final caper. The henchman who solves the most of them will be the new leader of V.I.L.E. Zack and Ivy manage to stop all of the thefts. They then travel to the site of Carmen's reported death to pay their last respects. Suddenly, a little bird delivers a message to "look up". When they do, they see Carmen was alive all that time. She had planned to fake her death to see who was worthy enough to take her place - and it turns out Zack and Ivy are the only ones who can!
#8 - Shaman Spirits
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1995
Carmen's reoccurring nightmare sends to her to seek the help of three Native American shamans to interpret it. Meanwhile, Zack, Ivy and a Native American detective named Billy 'Running Bird', track Carmen to Devil's Tower where the meaning of her dream is revealed. Though Carmen is captured, the shamans let her go. They do not want to go back on their promise - they would interpret her dream in exchange for the return of the items she stole from them.
#9 - Birds of a Feather
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1995
Somehow, the world's largest diamond, the Star of Africa, was stolen. The police are baffled and it's up to Zack and Ivy to figure this mystery out. They soon discover that one of Carmen's henchmen tried to double-cross her and keep the diamond for himself. With a little trickery of their own, the detectives recover the diamond.
#10 - Curses, Foiled Again
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1995
Zack and Ivy manage to capture Carmen in Hawaii. However, Zack loses his lucky rabbit's foot and begins to believe he's cursed with bad luck. Meanwhile, Carmen escapes and tries to teach her superstitious henchwoman, Hannah Lulu that there's no such thing as curses or ghosts. Hannah has a panic attack though when Zack and Ivy scare her at a supposedly haunted site. They manage to capture her but Carmen escapes. She leaves behind something Zack was glad to see again - his lucky rabbit's foot.
#11 - The Remnants
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1995
While chasing after Carmen, Zack and Ivy discover that Carmen was an orphan. They trail her to the Golden Gate Girls' School which is about to be torn down.
#12 - The Tigress
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1995
When Carmen attempts to steal several items having to do with military strategies, she is foiled several times by 'The Tigress', a thief with a lot of high-tech weaponry of her own. The Tigress lures Carmen to Antarctica, where she reveals herself to be Ivy in disguise. Carmen was ambushed by Acme detectives and taken away, but escapes when she steals Ivy's CO2 boots Zack invented.
#13 - Boyhood's End (1)
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/15/1995
Famous ACME detective Lee Jordon comes to town. But there's something off about him...
#14 - Deja Vu
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/8/1995
Carmen begins to steal items that she once saved from other criminals to lure her ex-partner, Suhara, out of retirement. Suhara joins Zack and Ivy to pursue Carmen - much to Zack's dismay. Zack feels Suhara is too old to be of any assistance. He soon learns to respect Suhara and even though they ultimately lose Carmen, Zack learns a valuable lesson that he'll never forget.
#15 - When It Rains
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/28/1995
After the detectives get word of that Carmen stole the Spruce Goose and trashed the airport to do so, they are quite puzzled by this un-Carmen-like action. They follow clues to Chile where they meet up with Carmen- only she's being held prisoner by Sara Bellum. Sara imprisons the detectives as well and reveals to them and Carmen her 'grand scheme'.
#16 - Hot Ice
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1994
Carmen warns the Player that her next crime "promises to be a real gem". Soon he and the detectives discover what Carmen meant - she has created a large diamond and uses it to cause an information traffic jam across Acme's frequencies.
#17 - The Stolen Smile
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/5/1994
Carmen steals parts of famous artwork to try to create her own personal masterpiece.
#18 - Dinosaur Delirium
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/19/1994
Carmen steals top secret genetic research and attempts to create her own dinosaur.
#19 - Moondreams
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/5/1994
Carmen's dream of landing on the moon inspires her to try and make it come true. She also decides to leave a little reminder of her feat- a painted silhouette of herself on the lunar surface.
#20 - By a Whisker
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/12/1994
Carmen kidnapps two white lion cubs and sets up her own game preserve for them.
#21 - The Good Old, Bad Old Days
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/19/1994
The Player challenges Carmen to a low-tech crime. Carmen accepts the Player's challenge and attempts to steal the Orient Express. Zack and Ivy need some help to solve Carmen's clues and are partnered with a gaucho detective named Armando.
#22 - Rules of the Game
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/9/1994
Zack and Ivy are partnered with a Russian detective as they follow Carmen's game-like clues to Hawaii for a 'winner-take-all' chess game.
#23 - Music to My Ears
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/23/1994
Carmen figures out a way to steal musical talent and transfers it to her two talentless henchwomen. She decides to showcase her accomplishment in a concert inside the stolen Sydney Opera House.
#24 - A Date with Carmen (1)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1994
Carmen goes back in time to steal objects that can change history.
#25 - A Date with Carmen (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1994
After recovering Ben's key, Zack and Ivy travel back to Boston and discover Carmen has stolen Paul Revere's horseshoe.