Trivia / Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?

• Acting for Two: Due to budget constraints, most of the actors on the show portrayed more than one character.
• Dated History: In one episode, Medeva steals the first newspapers from 1609. It was once believed that the world's first two newspapers, Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien and Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, both debuted in that year. In 2005, it was established that Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien actually debuted a few years earlier in 1605.
  • On that note, while historical information is less subject to being outdated compared to its predecessor series with its geographical-based information, all shows ended with a disclaimer by Lynne Thigpen stating that "All historical information has been verified by Enyclopedia Britannica (and was accurate as of the date this program was recorded)", in addition to mentioning the tapedate of the show.
• Dawson Casting: The ostensibly teenage Jacqueline Hyde was played by then-25 year old Alaine Kashian.
• He Also Did: Long before joining the Engine Crew, John Lathan was a final season cast member on the original version of Zoom.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Like its predecessor, the show has never been released on DVD nor has it seen a digital streaming release. Many episodes still exist through off-air recordings.
• Missing Episode: Far more than its predecessor - 56 out of 115 total - with even several of the recorded episodes available only being partially complete.
• The Other Darrin: Engine Crew member #1 (who wore the yellow costume), switched from Owen Taylor to Jamie Gustis for Season 2. Since the Engine Crew were almost never named, it might not count. This also applies to Dr. Belljar (same actors) and Carmen herself (Janine LaManna in Season 1, Brenda Burke in Season 2).
• Role Reprise: Lynne Thigpen reprised her role as the Chief from Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?.
• Technology Marches On:
  • The grand prize was a desktop computer with an 850 MB hard drive. Yes, 850 megabytes. For comparison's sake, an 850 gigabyte hard drive would be seen as low-in-storage today. Also included was the Encyclopedia Britannica...in CD form. While it certainly was a novel tool at the time, the rise of online encyclopedias trendset by The Other Wiki come the turn of the century has made even software versions of them outdated.
  • And the runner-up prize was the complete print version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, some 20 books in all. 2010 would be the last time the EB was released in print form as, again, the rise of online encylopedias like Wikipedia had made a print version obsolete.
  • Not an obvious one, but the second season opening sequence led with a machine moving a CD onto a reader. One could argue the disc is some sort of more advanced storage device, but given the time frame and that it seemed the disc contained numerous case files...

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