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The Best Episodes of Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?

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S4E3 Retribution (1): The Unsinkable Carmen Sandiego
8.422 votes
Worst episode
S3E5 Shaman Spirits
7.319 votes
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Season 1
8.0avg
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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 4 Episode 3 - Retribution (1): The Unsinkable Carmen Sandiego
    8.4/10(22 votes)

    S4:E3

    Maelstrom, a thief who was caught by Carmen during her time as ACME-detective, escapes from prison, swearing revenge on her. At first, it is reported to the detectives that he died during his escape. The detectives are curious about him and The Chief tells them about his adventure with detective Carmen. During that adventure, Carmen and a robot version of the Chief stop Maelstrom from stealing the wreck of the Titanic. At the conclusion of the story, Ivy and Zack 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.

    Director:Stan Phillips
    Writers:Cydne Clark, Steve Granat

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  2. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 1 Episode 3 - Dinosaur Delirium
    8.3/10(27 votes)

    S1:E3

    Carmen attempts to genetically engineer a pet dinosaur.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Thomas Peroutka, David Ehrman

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  3. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 3 Episode 8 - Labyrinth (2): Woman of the Year...2101
    8.3/10(20 votes)

    S3:E8

    Carmen arrives in the year 2101, where she stops a heist of a powerful electromagnet. Zack and Ivy must prove that she is a thief, not a hero, against the wishes of the future Chief, who has forgotten them. They eventually learn her ultimate goal: to become the greatest thief of the past, present, and future.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Sean Roche, Dennis O'Flaherty

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  4. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 1 Episode 2 - A Higher Calling
    8.2/10(30 votes)

    S1:E2

    Carmen brings items of mysterious origins together in an attempt to contact aliens.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Sean Roche, Kimmer Ringwald

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  5. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 1 Episode 4 - Moondreams
    8.2/10(27 votes)

    S1:E4

    Carmen's dream of landing on the moon inspires her to try and make it come true.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Sam Graham, Chris Hubbell

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  6. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 2 Episode 2 - A Date with Carmen (2)
    8.2/10(25 votes)

    S2:E2

    After Carmen disrupts Ben Franklin's kite experiment, Zack and Ivy must reverse all of her meddling to fix history and restore the present.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll

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  7. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 3 Episode 7 - Labyrinth (1)
    8.2/10(18 votes)

    S3:E7

    Acme is puzzled when Carmen steals scale copies of landmarks rather than the real thing. Zack and Ivy discover that she's using them in a training facility for new henchpeople - so they pose as new recruits to try to track her down.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Wendell Morris, T.R. Sheppard

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  8. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 2 Episode 1 - A Date with Carmen (1)
    8.1/10(22 votes)

    S2:E1

    Carmen goes back in time to steal Revolutionary War relics that no longer exist in the present.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Sean Roche, Peter Lawrence

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  9. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 3 Episode 1 - The Tigress
    8.1/10(22 votes)

    S3:E1

    When Carmen attempts to steal several items having to do with military strategies, she is foiled several times by her new rival, the Tigress. Zack and Ivy pursue both thieves to the Tigress' hideout in Antarctica, where her true identity - and motives - are revealed.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:Mark Hoffmeier

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  10. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 4 Episode 1 - The Trial of Carmen Sandiego
    8.1/10(22 votes)

    S4:E1

    When Carmen is captured by a judge bent on sentencing her to life in prison, Zack and Ivy are appointed 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?

    Director:Stan Phillips
    Writers:Laren Bright, Bill Matheny

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  11. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 2 Episode 6 - Hot Ice
    8.1/10(20 votes)

    S2:E6

    Carmen creates a large diamond to disrupt Acme's computer systems.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:Michael A. Medlock

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  12. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 4 Episode 7 - Cupid Sandiego
    8.1/10(17 votes)

    S4:E7

    Acme's detectives are on a working vacation at the Seychelles, where tech genius Josha will present his DNA scanning robot. Carmen takes advantage of his crush on Ivy by leading the detectives on a wild goose chase to romantic locations.

    Director:Stan Phillips
    Writer:Diane M. Fresco

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  13. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 1 Episode 6 - The Good Old Bad Old Days
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Cydne Clark, Steve Granat

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  14. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 1 Episode 9 - Chapter and Verse
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    S1:E9

    Carmen steals objects that have to do with literature such as Mark Twain's writing desk, Charles Dickens's inkwell, and a jungle ruin like the one that appears in the Jungle Book. They follow Carmen's clues to a remote hideaway in the Swiss Alps where they think Carmen was writing her memoirs. However, she was actually sending the detectives on a wild goose chase while Sara Bellum had tapped into Acme's files and stolen them all.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Sean Roche, David Ehrman

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  15. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 1 Episode 5 - By a Whisker
    8.0/10(23 votes)

    S1:E5

    Carmen kidnaps two white lion cubs and sets up her own game preserve for them.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:Doug Molitor

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  16. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 1 Episode 8 - Music to My Ears
    8.0/10(23 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:Doug Molitor

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  17. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 4 Episode 4 - Retribution (2): In Memoriam
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    S4:E4

    Zack and Ivy escape Maelstrom's ship and find out that Carmen still believes that Maelstrom died in his try to escape from the prison. Carmen wants to give him a worthy Viking-like funeral in Norway. Zack and Ivy find her beginning to give him such a funeral and are about to tell her that Maelstrom is alive when Maelstrom appears in a ship beside Carmen. He challenges her to come after him or die, and then speeds off. Carmen manages to get Zack and Ivy aboard her ship and they make an agreement to join forces to capture Maelstrom. Carmen remembered a clue he left, so she and the detectives follow it to Williamsburg Virginia where Maelstrom captures them and publicly humilates them in the stocks of the town square. Zack and Ivy escape and help Carmen do so as well. They get separated and the local police arrest the detectives for freeing Carmen!

    Director:Stan Phillips
    Writer:Doug Booth

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  18. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 2 Episode 3 - Split Up
    8.0/10(20 votes)

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Sean Roche, Michael Maurer, Matt Uitz

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  19. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 3 Episode 4 - Birds of a Feather
    8.0/10(19 votes)

    S3:E4

    After the world's largest diamond is stolen, Zack and Ivy discover that one of Carmen's henchmen tried to double-cross her and keep the diamond for himself.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Perry Adleman, Melanie Williams

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  20. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 2 Episode 9 - Déjà Vu
    8.0/10(18 votes)

    S2:E9

    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, teaching Zack a lesson in the value of taking your time.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Sean Roche, Cecilia Fannon

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  21. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 4 Episode 6 - Timing Is Everything
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    S4:E6

    Carmen's henchman Mason Dixon steals her time machine. Suddenly, he is the leader of V.I.L.E. and Carmen is only his henchwoman. Zack and and Ivy have to restore Mason's damage, and also stop him from trying to change the outcome of the Civil War

    Director:Stan Phillips
    Writer:Mark Hoffmeier

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  22. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 3 Episode 6 - Follow My Footprints
    7.9/10(17 votes)

    S3:E6

    When Carmen reportedly dies in a plane crash, Zack and Ivy are compelled to compete against her henchpeople to inherit leadership of VILE.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:Kevin West

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  23. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 4 Episode 5 - Retribution (3): Maelstrom's Revenge
    7.9/10(20 votes)

    S4:E5

    The Chief manages to convince the local sheriff to free Zack and Ivy. They meet up with Carmen again and persue Maelstrom. Malestrom begins to steal items and frames Carmen for their thefts! He wants to ruin her reputation as thief with a conscience.

    Director:Stan Phillips
    Writer:Doug Molitor

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  24. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 1 Episode 1 - The Stolen Smile
    7.9/10(39 votes)

    S1:E1

    Carmen steals parts of famous artwork to try to create her own personal masterpiece.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writers:Sean Roche, Kimmer Ringwald, Michael Konik

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  25. Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Season 2 Episode 4 - Skull and Double-Crossbones
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    S2:E4

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

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:Doug Molitor

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Best Episodes Summary

"Retribution (1): The Unsinkable Carmen Sandiego" is the best rated episode of Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?. It scored 8.4/10 from 22 votes. Directed by Stan Phillips and written by Cydne Clark, Steve Granat, it aired on March 30, 1998. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dinosaur Delirium".

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