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Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego!  HERE OF COURSE!

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Carmen Sandiego was originally created in 1983 by a group of innovative software designers at a small family company known as Brøderbund Software. To inspire kids to learn geography, the creators wanted a female "heroine" whose name sounded different, but was unmistakably easy to pronounce. Her first software game "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" shipped in 1985.

In 1994, a cartoon series debuted that became a personal favorite of mine.  Unique characters, wonderful story lines, humor, education, and multiple animation mediums came together and became a series known as Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?  After that the great learning software came about. 

Carmen Sandiego CD-ROM games are great educational tools. They teach kids geography, history, math and grammar in a fun and exciting way. Kids love to play these educational games and feel a real sense of accomplishment when they "capture" Carmen!

For over a decade, kids have been chasing the elusive Carmen Sandiego and her V.I.L.E. gang, learning about geography and cultures, not to mention science, math, language arts, music, and history.

Brief Show History:

On February 5, 1994 Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? debuted on the Fox Network.  Combining traditional cel animation, computer animation and live action stills and scenes, DIC Enterprises had produced a rather unique educational series.  The series remained on Fox until the fall of 1996.  There was a limited three episode run in the spring of 1997 until the series was put on hiatus until pikced up by the Fox Family Channel.  From 1998-1999, Fox Fam aired all but one episode of the final season, "Cupid Sandiego."  It is rumored the episode was not all that good, and Fox never decided to air it.  I doubt this personally, but I cannot confrim or deny the rumor.  The series was given a very short run on the PAX televison network, but once they scrapped their morning cartoon programing, Carmen disappeared from the airwaves--probably for good.

The series was nominated for 5 Emmys and won once in 1995 for Outstanding Animated Children's Program. 

A Basic Show Overview:

Carmen Sandiego, the world greatest thief, is on the loose and it's up to the ACME Detective Agency to solve her clues and track her down.  When a crime is commited, the Chief of ACME turns to his best agents--teen siblings Zack and Ivy.

Zack and Ivy must slove Carmen's clues in order to not only discover where she will strike next but also to find the common thread in her thefts.  By doing so, they can attempt to stop Carmen before she can carry out her plan and attempt to capture her.