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.

Last Updated: 3/2/2024Network: Fox KidsStatus: Ended
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Birds of a Feather
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8.33
3 votes

#1 - 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.

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Curses, Foiled Again
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8.33
3 votes

#2 - 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.

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Follow My Footprints
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8.33
3 votes

#3 - 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!

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The Tigress
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8.00
4 votes

#4 - 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.

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When It Rains
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7.80
5 votes

#5 - 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'.

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The Remnants
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7.75
4 votes

#6 - 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.

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The Trial of Carmen Sandiego
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7.67
3 votes

#7 - 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?

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Can You Ever Go Home Again? (1)
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7.67
3 votes

#8 - Can You Ever Go Home Again? (1)

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/26/1998

When Carmen tries to steal some treasures from industrialist Malcolm Avalon she discovers a painting representing her mother. At the same time, Lee Jordan takes the decision to become the new leader of V.I.L.E. Avalon tells Carmen, that the medallion she has with her, representing the same woman as on the painting, was a gift for his daughter, but he says, that Carmen can't be his daughter because she died in a fire and she would never have become a thief. To convince him she turns herself into the police but when Lee abducts Avalon, she breaks out again.

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Can You Ever Go Home Again? (2)
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7.67
3 votes

#9 - Can You Ever Go Home Again? (2)

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/2/1999

Has Carmen really found her father and will she stop her life of crime once and for all?

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Split Up
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7.60
5 votes

#10 - Split Up

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1994

Zack creates a computer, the Zack Attack 20,000, which he believes will capture Carmen. However, when Carmen escapes with one of the treasures Zack had the computer protect, Ivy decides that she doesn't want to put her faith in it. The siblings go their own separate ways on this case, until Ivy is captured by Carmen.

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Boyhood's End (1)
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7.60
5 votes

#11 - 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...

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Shaman Spirits
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7.50
2 votes

#12 - 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.

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Retribution (1): The Unsinkable Carmen Sandiego
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7.50
2 votes

#13 - 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.

Labyrinth (3): When in Rome
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7.50
2 votes

#14 - 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.

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Labyrinth (2): Woman of the Year...2101
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7.50
2 votes

#15 - 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.

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Labyrinth (1)
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7.50
2 votes

#16 - 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.

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All for One
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7.40
5 votes

#17 - All for One

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1994

Two of Carmen's henchmen try to melt down a golden shrine. They foul up and Carmen has to rescue them from the police. After stealing objects that encourage teamwork, Carmen and her henchmen return to the shrine to attempt the theft again - except this time, Carmen supervises the operation.

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Deja Vu
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7.40
5 votes

#18 - 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.

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A Higher Calling
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7.29
7 votes

#19 - 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.

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Rules of the Game
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7.29
7 votes

#20 - 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.

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Scavenger Hunt
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7.20
5 votes

#21 - Scavenger Hunt

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1994

When Carmen steals famous gifts from around the world, Zack and Ivy are puzzled, especially since her clues are in the form of a scavenger hunt. Suddenly, the detectives realize why Carmen is doing this. It's her birthday and she is stealing these famous gifts to give them to herself.

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Skull and Double-Crossbones
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7.17
6 votes

#22 - Skull and Double-Crossbones

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1994

Carmen and her band of pirates attempt to take over a submarine.

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The Good Old, Bad Old Days
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7.17
6 votes

#23 - 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.

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Moondreams
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7.00
6 votes

#24 - 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.

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By a Whisker
star
7.00
5 votes

#25 - 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.

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