| Alt Name: | Pépinot et Capucine |
| Genre: | children's puppetry |
| Composer: | Neil Chotem |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | French English |
| Channel: | Radio-Canada CBC Television |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Producer: | Jean-Paul Ladouceur |
| Location: | Montreal |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
Pepinot and Capucine (French title, Pépinot et Capucine) was a Canadian children's television series which aired on Radio-Canada from 1952 to 1954, and on the English CBC Television from 1954 to 1955.
This series was produced at Radio-Canada's Montreal studios. The title characters were the puppets Pepinot and his sister Capucine. Other regular characters included Mr. Black, a pet bear, known as l'Ours in French. Mr. White, an inventor, was known on the French series as Monsieur Blanc.[1]
The series was broadcast on Radio-Canada since 7 September 1952 until 1954. After this, the series was simply titled Pépinot which was produced in several runs until 1972. Episodes continued to be rebroadcast through mid-1973.[2]
The half-hour English version appeared on CBC Television on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. in two seasons, first from 3 January to 27 June 1954 and secondly from 19 September 1954 to 19 June 1955.