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The world's greatest thief, Carmen Sandiego, leaves cryptic clues while committing near-impossible thefts, such as the space shuttle, the roof of the Taj Mahal, and Paul Revere's horseshoe. On her trail are teen detective duo (and occasionally feuding siblings) Zack and Ivy.
1994
Carmen steals parts of famous artwork to try to create her own personal masterpiece.
Carmen brings items of mysterious origins together in an attempt to contact aliens.
Carmen attempts to genetically engineer a pet dinosaur.
Carmen's dream of landing on the moon inspires her to try and make it come true.
Carmen kidnaps two white lion cubs and sets up her own game preserve for them.
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.
Zack and Ivy are partnered with a Russian detective as they follow Carmen's game-like clues to Hawaii for a life-sized, winner-take-all chess game.
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.
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.
Carmen pursues objects related to the history of theatre.
Rita Moreno
Carmen Sandiego (voice)
Jennifer Hale
Ivy (voice)
Scott Menville
Zack (voice)
Rodger Bumpass
The Chief (voice)
1995
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.
Carmen's thefts all seem to follow a Wizard of Oz theme. While chasing after Carmen, Zack and Ivy discover that Carmen was an orphan, and her thefts relate to things she treasured in childhood.
Working with a Native Hawaiian detective, Aileen, Zack and Ivy finally capture Carmen, along with her henchwoman Hannah Lulu. After escaping, Carmen tries to teach Hannah the value of confidence over luck by stealing supposedly unlucky items around Hawai'i.
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.
Carmen's recurring nightmare drives her to seek the help of Native American shamans to interpret it.
When Carmen reportedly dies in a plane crash, Zack and Ivy are compelled to compete against her henchpeople to inherit leadership of VILE.
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.
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.
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 Coliseum games.
Carmen gives herself a Christmas present by kidnapping the Chief, unaware he has a virus that's attacking his memory. Zack and Ivy take advantage of the situation by posing as thieves, leaving Carmen and her henchmen clues to their next heist.
1994
Carmen goes back in time to steal Revolutionary War relics that no longer exist in the present.
After Carmen disrupts Ben Franklin's kite experiment, Zack and Ivy must reverse all of her meddling to fix history and restore the present.
1996
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?
When Carmen is tricked at a heist in China, she decides to get even with a Halloween surprise. She decides to set up a haunted house with items she's recently stolen. Zack is a bit frightened by all the spooky stuff in the house, and has to convince himself it's all fake.
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.
Carmen and her band of pirates attempt to take over a submarine.
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.
Carmen creates a large diamond to disrupt Acme's computer systems.
After rescuing two henchpeople from a fouled-up heist, Carmen decides to teach them the value of cooperation by stealing items related to teamwork.
The detectives are puzzled by what seems like an abrupt shift in Carmen's behavior as she begins trashing crime scenes. They discover that Carmen is being held prisoner by an imposter aiming to take her place as the queen of crime.
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.
Famous Acme detective Lee Jordan comes to Zack and Ivy's assistance. But something is strange about him.
Lee Jordan turns to work for Carmen, and together they attempt "the biggest heist ever."
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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 medaillon 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 in to the police. When Lee abducts Avalon, she breaks out again. Lee says, that she will only see her father again if she works for him...
This was the last episode made, leaving us with the question of if Carmen really found her father, and will she stop her life of crime.
