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Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiago?

First Telecast: September 1991
Last Telecast: September 1996
Episodes: 295
Produced by WGBH (Boston) and WQED (Pittsburgh)
PBS Afternoons
Premiere: Fall 1991. 65 episodes per season.
Last episode: October 4, 1996.
CAST:
"Special Agent in Charge of Training New Recruits": Greg Lee ["Senior Agent" beginning with season three.]

"The Chief": Lynne Thigpen (Note: died March 14, 2003)

Music: Rockapella
(Sean Altman, Scott Leonard, Elliott Kerman, Barry Carl)



The headquarters of a spy organization called ACME Crimenet is the setting for this PBS game show based on the computer game. The object is to locate master criminal Carmen Sandiego by recognizing and identifying various pieces of geographical information. Three school-age children are the contestants for each game, which is played in three rounds.

Listing of the crooks

Gameplay/rules

Theme song, sung by Rockapella



FAST FACTS
    Recurring skits included:
  • Nana Rap (an animated elderly woman who gave her clues in rhyme)

  • The Dying Informant (Leonard, doing a dramatic death scene while gasping the clues with his final breaths)

  • The Roach Motel (featuring Kafka the Cockroach), Plastic Diver Guy (an aquarium toy with undersea misadventures)

  • Mrs. Pumpkinclanger (Carl, in drag, as an upstairs neighbor)


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