Carmen Sandiego (TV series)

Carmen Sandiego is an animated action-adventure television series with educational elements, based on the media franchise of the same name created by Broderbund. The series is produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with WildBrain serving as the production company, and contains a "serialized look at Carmen's backstory that is told from her perspective". Serving as an origin story for the fictional thieving villain of the same name, it is the fourth Carmen Sandiego television show after the PBS game shows Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?, and the Fox animated series Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?; it is also the first Carmen Sandiego related show since the end of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego in 1999.

Carmen Sandiego
Genre
Based onCarmen Sandiego
by Broderbund
Developed byDuane Capizzi
Directed by
  • Jos Humphrey
  • Kenny Park
  • Mike West
Voices of
Theme music composerJared Lee Gosselin
Opening theme"Carmen Sandiego"
performed by Raquel Castro
Composers
  • Steve D'Angelo
  • Lorenzo Castelli
Country of origin
  • Canada
  • United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes32 (+1 special)
Production
Executive producers
  • Caroline Fraser
  • C.J. Kettler (S1-2)
  • Anne Loi
  • Kirsten Newlands (S1-2)
  • Amir Nasrabadi (S3-4)
ProducerBrian Hulme
Running time24–33 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkNetflix
ReleaseJanuary 18, 2019 (2019-01-18) 
January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
Related
  • Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?

Serving as WildBrain's second reboot of an animated DIC Entertainment series, the series sees many characters drawn from the franchise's 35-year history: Carmen Sandiego herself who debuted in the original World video game; The Chief who took her current form in the World game show; Player, Zack, and Ivy who were featured in the Earth animated series, Chase Devineaux who debuted in Word Detective, and Julia Argent who was featured in Treasures of Knowledge.

The first season was released on January 18, 2019, on Netflix. A second season was released on October 1, 2019. A third season announced on April 24, 2020 and was released on October 1. A fourth and final season was announced on October 2, 2020, and was released on January 15, 2021.

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