Carmen Sandiego (TV series)

For other uses, see Carmen Sandiego (disambiguation).
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 time33 minutes (episodes 1 & 2) 24 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkNetflix
ReleaseJanuary 18, 2019 (2019-01-18) –
January 15, 2021 (2021-01-15)
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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".[1] 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 Kids 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.

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.[2] A second season was released on October 1, 2019.[3] A third season announced on April 24, 2020[4] and was released on October 1.[5] A fourth and final season was announced on October 2, 2020, and was released on January 15, 2021.[6][7] In September 2024, it was announced that a puzzle-adventure game which visually resembles, and takes "plot cues" from, the series, would be released in the first quarter of 2025.[8][9][10]


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  1. ^ "So '90s? Netflix talks rebooting content for today's kids". Archived from the original on 2017-06-14. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  2. ^ Petski, Denise (December 10, 2018). "'Carmen Sandiego' Gets January Premiere Date On Netflix". Deadline. Archived from the original on 2018-12-11. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  3. ^ Moore, Kasey (September 4, 2019). "'Carmen Sandiego' Season 2 Coming to Netflix in October 2019". What's on Netflix. Archived from the original on September 4, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  4. ^ @CarmenSandiego (April 25, 2020). "#CarmenSandiego is coming back for Season 3! More secrets revealed, only on @netflix! @netflixfamily" (Tweet). Archived from the original on May 2, 2020 – via Twitter.
  5. ^ "'Carmen Sandiego' Season 3 Coming to Netflix in October 2020". Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  6. ^ @CarmenSandiego (October 2, 2020). "Yes, #CarmenSandiego will be back for a 4th season! Coming soon, only on @netflix @netflixfamily" (Tweet). Archived from the original on October 2, 2020 – via Twitter.
  7. ^ @CarmenSandiego (December 16, 2020). "To the end of the line. The fourth and final season of #CarmenSandiego premieres January 15, on @netflix! @netflixfamily" (Tweet). Archived from the original on December 16, 2020 – via Twitter.
  8. ^ McCaffrey, Ryan (September 9, 2024). "Carmen Sandiego Game Announced for Netflix, Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch". IGN. Archived from the original on September 9, 2024. Retrieved September 11, 2024. it visually resembles the recent Netflix animated series that ran from 2019-2021
  9. ^ Gallagher, Danny (September 10, 2024). "The new Carmen Sandiego game will let you play as Carmen Sandiego". Engadget. Archived from the original on September 10, 2024. Retrieved September 11, 2024. The new Carmen Sandiego puzzle-adventure game is based on the 2019 interactive Netflix cartoon series
  10. ^ Benfell, Grace (September 9, 2024). "New Carmen Sandiego Game Has You Play As Master Thief For First Time". GameSpot. Archived from the original on September 9, 2024. Retrieved September 11, 2024. The game takes style and plot cues from the Netflix animated show, which started in 2019.